The Best of Progressive Radio
Summary: Each week, the editors of The Progressive magazine present their favorite audio interviews with progressive leaders and thinkers conducted over the past several years.
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Podcasts:
A 2006 interview with Stephanie Miller, host of the Stephanie Miller Show, the most enjoyable liberal talk-radio show in the country.
A 2007 interview with the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. We discussed her book, "Half of a Yellow Sun." She just won a MacArthur genius award.
A 2007 interview with Grace Paley, the great American short story writer, poet and political activist.
An interview from 2007 with Susan Faludi, author, most famously, of "Backlash," and of, “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America.”
A 2006 interview with feminist folksinger Ani DiFranco. We talked about resurgent patriarchy, and about her album, "Reprieve."
A 2006 interview with John Dean of Watergate fame, talking about why Bush and Cheney are more dangerous than Nixon was.
A 2005 interview with Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian-born graphic novelist. She is the author of "Persepolis," about growing up during the Iranian revolution. Her work, "Embroideries," deals with women and sexuality in Iran. We spoke about both books, and about her views on George Bush.
A 2005 interview with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers. We talked about her history with the farm workers' movement, and the need to organize today.
A 2005 interview with Ha Jin, whose novel, "War Trash," won the Pen/Faulkner Award. I spoke with him about this novel about the Korean War, and about how he became a writer.
My guest from earlier this year was the poet Juan Felipe Herrera, just profiled in the NYT Book Review.
My guest from 2006 was the historian, playwright, Progressive columnist, and activist Howard Zinn, author most famously of A People's History of the United States.
A 2007 interview with the great writer Anne Lamott. We talk about her book Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, and why she likes Al Gore.
A 2007 interview with Laura Flanders, author of a great book entitled Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians.
My guest is Michael Franti, the musician, poet, human rights activist, and filmmaker. He's the leader of the band Spearhead, and now he's made a film called "I Know I'm Not Alone," about his travels to Iraq, Israel, and the Occupied Territories. In my interview with him, we talk about his experience making that film, and he sings a new, unrecorded song, "See You in the Light."
