Hour 1 [REBROADCAST] The new movie The King’s Speech is about King George Vl and his struggles to overcome his stammer at the onset of WWll.  It follows the King, played by Colin Firth, and his relationship with unconventional speech therapist Lionel Logue, played by Geoffrey Rush.  The film has won critical acclaim and Firth’s [...]

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Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Do you have a favorite cocktail?   An Old Fashioned, a Sidecar, a Martini, or a Vodka Gimlet?  Classic cocktails have seen quite a revival in recent years thanks to the popularity of the television series Mad Men. Set in the 1960s, the characters appear to drink cocktails morning, noon and night – [...]

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Hour 2 [Rebroadcast] The Booker Prize-winning writer SALMAN RUSHDIE returns to Radio Times to discuss the new fable he has written for his youngest son, “Luka and the Fire of Life.” Rushdie, author of over ten novels, non-fiction works and short stories is known best for “Midnight’s Children” and the controversial 1988 novel, “Satanic Verses,” [...]

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Hour 1 It’s become somewhat of a tradition at Radio Times to spend our last live hour of the year talking about one of  our favorite subjects—movies.   So tune in when we review the year in film with political consultant and movie-goer extraordinaire Neil Oxman and Daily News critic Gary Thompson. Listen to the mp3 [...]

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Hour 1 First, we take stock in the year in Philadelphia news, with WHYY's Senior Reporter DAVE DAVIES and Philadelphia Daily News editorial page editor SANDRA SHEA. Then, we'll hear from Congressman MIKE CASTLE, Republican of Delaware, who lost his bid for the First State's Senate seat and who is leaving Congress after a record [...]

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Hour 2 [REBROADCAST]  Novelist GARY SHTEYNGART was already a critically acclaimed writer before he was featured in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” this summer for his debut novel, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” published in 2003. Radio Times invites Shteyngart back to Radio Times to discuss his latest novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” a love [...]

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Hour 1 The Obama administration recently released its Afghanistan war policy review, saying that the U.S. is making “considerable gains toward our military objective.” The war in Afghanistan is the longest running war in U.S. history and is becoming increasingly unpopular.  A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 60% of Americans think that the [...]

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Hour 2 [REBROADCAST]  JAY VARNER’s first book is a memoir titled Nothing Left to Burn. In it, Varner tells of three generations of men connected by fire in the small town of McVeytown, Pennsylvania. There’s Jay, a young boy, then young man, who grows up to be a reporter for the local paper, assigned to cover, [...]

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[REBROADCAST] Images of rockets blasting off into outer space are pretty awe-inspiring.  But what about the bathroom technology that’s inside them?  Or the food that is specially engineered to be edible in zero gravity?  This is the part of space travel that fascinated writer Mary Roach.  She wondered how astronauts keep up their personal hygiene [...]

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Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Israeli writer DAVID GROSSMAN received international attention with his 1987 nonfiction book, “The Yellow Wind,” a personal reportage of interviews of Palestinian residents during the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, which was published a few months before the first Intifada. His recent book, "To the End of the Land: A Novel" was [...]

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