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Season 27
How the acclaimed TV series came to be and what it has come to mean since, as recalled in a new book by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 27 trailer
Season 27
Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to season 27. In a nostalgic look back at the TV series The West Wing, Alan recalls the scariest …
1 year, 9 months ago
Lynnae Quick: Could an Icy Moon Harbor Life?
Season 26
Her doctoral thesis led to her becoming a member of the team behind yesterday’s successful launch of NASA’s Clipper mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.…
1 year, 9 months ago
Terry Szuplat: Speak Your Mind
Season 26
For eight years he wrote speeches for President Obama. Today he applies much of what he learned then in helping others with public speaking – how to …
1 year, 9 months ago
Steve Martin: Portrait of the Artist
Season 26
He’s had a legendary life as a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, banjo player, even magician. As Steve talks about these threads in his life, a pictu…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ayana Johnson: We Can Do This!
Season 26
A clarion call to those of us acutely aware of the peril facing our planet yet feel powerless to help save it. Ayana Johnson urges us to stop frettin…
1 year, 9 months ago
Frank Barry: Taking the Lincoln Highway to America
Season 26
Escaping the Covid lockdown in 2020 he and his wife Laurel set out in an RV to travel across America along the Lincoln Highway – a road more aspirati…
1 year, 10 months ago
Randy Fertel: Improv Everywhere
Season 26
Is improvisation at the heart of Western culture — music, art, literature, politics, even artificial intelligence? Author Randy Fertel thinks so. An…
1 year, 10 months ago
Roger Rosenblatt: Wounds and Other Blessings
Season 26
Alan talks with Roger Rosenblatt about his new book “A Steinway on the beach.” It explores that great mystery of how being wounded—emotionally or phy…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lisa Kaltenegger: Alien Hunter
Season 26
She’s a pioneer in figuring out how we might tell if any of the trillions of planets out there in the galaxy might harbor life – and if so, what kind…
1 year, 10 months ago