Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

Series produced by Conversations with Allan Wolper

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Conversations with Allan Wolper is an in-depth, face to face, 30-minute interview series with people whose ideas and lives are on the cutting edge of American society.

You will hear tales of Iraqi intrigue and urban conflict. Heart rendering stories of parents with special needs children. Intense discussions of race and religion. Investigative insights of historical significance. Cultural accounts of life on Broadway, Hollywood, and the media.

Allan Wolper is known as a "journalist's journalist." A superb interviewer, reporter, documentary producer and ethics columnist, he has been honored by every journalism medium. Wolper has won over 50 awards, including, television's prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award - The Pulitzer Prize of broadcast news. He won the National Headliner Award for his radio commentaries, and has been honored by The Medill Graduate School of Journalism at Northwestern University, The Pennsylvania State University, the New York Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists and the National Press Club for his ethics columns in Editor and Publisher Magazine. Allan Wolper is a Professor of Journalism at Rutgers - Newark University.

CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLAN WOLPER ON-AIR Tuesday at 7:30pm
www.wbgo.org/wolper


113 Pieces

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Once a marine, always a marine. Lance Corporal Nancy Schiliro lost her eye as a result of a mortar explosion in Iraq. She returned home to New York...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:04
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Eliot Spitzer was the 54th Governor of New York. He was elected by a landslide vote in 2006 only to resign fourteen months later after being expose...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy talks about health care, his mission to eradicate diseases of the brain, his political future, and ...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Bill de Blasio, the New York City Public Advocate and a candidate to win the Democratic nomination for mayor in next year's primary, and his wife C...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times business columnist Gretchen Morgenson talks about how Wall Street and the bigger than ever banks stay a step ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:07
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Ruth Mandel, Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics talks with Allan about her family's ill-fated journey on the St. Louis, a german ocean ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:46
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Allan Wolper talks to Timothy Crouse, author of the political campaign classic, The Boys On The Bus, and co-author of the Tony Award winning Broadw...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:40
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Allan Wolper talks to international artist, Layla Fanucci, and her husband Robert Fanucci, who makes the award winning Charter Oak wines out of the...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
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John Johnson, a legendary New York television news anchor and reporter for 30 years, talks about growing up in Bedford Stuyvesant, negotiating the ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 30:18
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Dr. Deane Marchbein, President of Doctors Without Borders, talks about the struggle to treat the sick and injured in war ravaged areas of South Sud...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
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Ted Sod, a dramaturg for New York City's Roundabout Theater talks about the healing power that theater has on audiences. Sod, an actor, director an...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:21
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Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch detective series that deals with murder and morality practiced by the police, the pre...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Grammy nominee singer songwriter Steve Seskin has written seven number one songs. His legendary anti-bullying song that he co-wrote with Allen Sham...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 30:04
Caption: Roland Betts
Roland W. Betts, founder and Chairman of Chelsea Piers, tells how he rebuilt New York's premier sports and entertainment complex after it was level...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 31:57
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Murray Weiss, one of New York City's best crime reporters, has written about the city's most notorious murderers and mobsters, including John Gotti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:22
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Billionaire entrepreneur John Catsimatidis, President of the Gristedes and Red Apple supermarkets, speaks about his campaign for the Republican nom...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 37:10
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Rikki Klieman, a legal analyst for CBS This Morning, is a nationally known criminal defense lawyer, a Court TV anchor during the O.J. Simpson trial...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:27
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Bill Bratton, the former police commissioner credited with bringing down New York's crime rate during former Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's administratio...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:36
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Nancy Cantor, the President and Chancellor of Syracuse University, became the Chancellor of the expanding campus of Rutgers University-Newark on Ja...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 25:43
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Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem. It is part of The New York City Public...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00