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ThoughtCast
Presentation
Hosted byJenny Attiyeh
Talk, Education
Publication
Websitewww.thoughtcast.org

ThoughtCast is a podcast and public radio interview program with authors and academics. The interviews are conducted by Jenny Attiyeh,[1] a former public radio and TV reporter from Manhattan and elsewhere whose previous work focused on covering the arts and ideas. ThoughtCast aims to offer a "bridge between the publications and pursuits of the intellectual world and a curious, informed, mainstream audience."[2]

Guests

ThoughtCast has a strong New England emphasis, with a majority of the interviewees being Harvard professors. Guests have included Lisa Randall,[3] a Harvard theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate Amartya Sen;[4] Alan Dershowitz;[5] Sam Huntington[6] of Clash of Civilizations; public radio program directors; biographers Megan Marshall[7] and Carol Bundy;[8] philosopher Simon Blackburn;[9] David Weinberger; and others.[10]

In summer 2008, ThoughtCast introduced video to its lineup.[11] The video includes interviews with Scottish historian Niall Ferguson on the "American Empire",[12] Internet gurus on neologisms gleaned from life online, and Joshua Micah Marshall,[13] the creator of Talking Points Memo.[14] A conversation on Steve Reich's Different Trains with the Borromeo String Quartet was also picked up by New Hampshire Public Radio.[15] The program examines how Reich, in this challenging composition, compares the train trips he took as a child to the very different train trips Jews were forced to take during the Holocaust.[16]

Distribution

ThoughtCast is released on its website and iTunes. The program is also available through the Public Radio Exchange.[17] WGBH, an arts and culture public radio station in Boston, has broadcast many ThoughtCast interviews, and has featured the program on its Forum Network.[18][19]

References

  1. ^ "About Jenny Attiyeh". ThoughtCast.
  2. ^ "About ThoughtCast".
  3. ^ "Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist". ThoughtCast.
  4. ^ "Amartya Sen talks about identity and violence". ThoughtCast.
  5. ^ "Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah". ThoughtCast.
  6. ^ "Sam Huntington discusses immigration and American identity". ThoughtCast.
  7. ^ "The Peabody Sisters — with biographer Megan Marshall". ThoughtCast.
  8. ^ "Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer". ThoughtCast.
  9. ^ "Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn". ThoughtCast.
  10. ^ "The Web 2.0 and beyond — a conversation". ThoughtCast.
  11. ^ "ThoughtCast channel on blip.tv". blip.tv.
  12. ^ "Our American "Empire" with Niall Ferguson". ThoughtCast.
  13. ^ "More Neologisms with TPM's Josh Marshall". ThoughtCast.
  14. ^ Talking Points Memo
  15. ^ "Taking on 'Different Trains'". NHPR.
  16. ^ "Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet". ThoughtCast.
  17. ^ "Thoughtcast host Jenny Attiyeh's profile". PRX.
  18. ^ "Arts & Ideas archive". WGBH.
  19. ^ http://forum.wgbh.org/lecture/lisa-randall-string-theory-multiple-dimensions

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