Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Former United States Marine Captain Josh Rushing is a host and correspondent for the highly acclaimed Al Jazeera English documentary series Fault L...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:04
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Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York American Civil Liberties Union, champions causes that are popular and unpopular. She is fightin...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:50
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Nancy Gruskin became the most influential lobbyist for bicycle safety in New York City after her husband, Stuart, was killed crossing 43rd Street b...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:15
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Elsie McCabe Thompson is president of the Museum for African Art that will open next year in a spectacular new building on New York's City's Museum...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:40
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Former New Jersey Governor James Edward McGreevey resigned seven years ago after admitting he was a gay American and acknowledging he appointed his...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:38
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Dr. Eleanor Perfetto, senior director of research for Pfizer, Inc. spends nearly every day of her life tending to her husband, Ralph Wenzel, a form...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:44
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Tony Lo Bianco talks about growing up in Brooklyn and how that helped shaped his brilliant acting career. Tony gives us a taste of some of his favo...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:38