Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

Series produced by Conversations with Allan Wolper

Series image

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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Piece image
Jeff Nunokawa is a professor of Victorian Literature at Princeton University. Nunokawa is known for his unique literary essays on his Facebook page...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:58
Piece image
Judy Mauer is an international award winning New York street photographer whose lens captures three dimensional pictures of store mannequins and th...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 30:50
Piece image
Bruce Cutler, one of the most flamboyant criminal defense lawyers in recent history, made his legal bones representing clients like the late Mafia ...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 30:17
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Choclatt Jared has played his bucket drums on 42nd Street, at the Grammy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Academy Awards, and on Saturday Night Live. H...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:13
Piece image
Carl Locke, a detective in the internal affairs division of The New York City police department,is president of the Gay Officers Action League (GOA...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Piece image
Wil Haygood's story on the front page of The Washington Post in 2008 about the late Eugene Allen, a butler who served eight U. S. presidents from H...

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:36
Piece image
Walter Mosley is former President Bill Clinton's favorite mystery writer and one of the country's most prolific novelists. Mosley discusses Lift, a...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:53
Piece image
Kathleen Jordan is finishing the memoir of her late father, Hamilton Jordan, who former President Jimmy Carter said was the man who devised the pol...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 30:09
Piece image
Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:06
Piece image
Robin Steinberg is founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, which represents people in the criminal and civil courts who can't afford...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:47
Piece image
Best-selling mystery writer Michael Connelly is back to talk with Allan again. He's written a new book, Gods of Guilt, that is part of his Lincoln ...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government which killed over two million people, returns to his homeland to s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Piece image
Elizabeth Kiehner, co-founder of Thornberg & Forester, shakes people up with her digital designs and storytelling techniques. She works with corpor...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
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