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Playwright David Mamet on the Rhythm of Language
Mamet's plays include "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won a Pulitzer), and "Oleanna." His movies include, "Homicide," "House of Games," and "Things Change." Mamet is best known for his style of writing, which New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich described as "burying layers of meaning into simple precisely distilled idiomatic language." Mamet has written several books of essays; he's just published his first novel, "The Village."
NPR Journalist Daniel Schorr on Making Nixon's Enemies List
Schorr is the Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. Previously, he was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent. After ending up on Nixon’s "enemy list," he resigned from CBS in 1976, and wrote a book about the Watergate scandal called "Clearing the Air." Before joining CBS, Schorr was a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Recently he narrated a five-part BBC documentary on the Discovery channel, "Watergate." (Rebroadcast)
Getting Up to Speed with Flamenco
World music critic Milo Miles admits he doesn't know much about Flamenco music. But he likes what he hears on the new anthology Duende.
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