The Midnight Special (Series)
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MS 24-36: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 9/12/2024
From The WFMT Radio Network | Part of the The Midnight Special series | 01:58:30
Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!
Bruce Cutler on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From Conversations with Allan Wolper | Part of the Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG series | 30:17
Bruce Cutler, one of the most flamboyant criminal defense lawyers in recent history, made his legal bones representing clients like the late Mafia boss, John Gotti. Cutler talks about how he met the so called "Teflon Don" and how their relationship became a personal one. Cutler also says that federal courtrooms are empty because middle class defendants can't afford to hire lawyers to represent them.
Bruce Cutler, one of the most flamboyant criminal defense lawyers in recent history, made his legal bones representing clients like the late Mafia boss, John Gotti. Cutler talks about how he met the so called "Teflon Don" and how their relationship became a personal one. Cutler also says that federal courtrooms are empty because middle class defendants can't afford to hire lawyers to represent them.
Kathleen Jordan on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From Conversations with Allan Wolper | Part of the Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG series | 30:09
Kathleen Jordan is finishing the memoir of her late father, Hamilton Jordan, who former President Jimmy Carter said was the man who devised the political strategy that got a peanut farmer elected to the White House. She read excerpts from the book, including a special testimonial by Carter,and her father's reaction to finding out his maternal grandmother's name was Gottheimer and was Jewish.
Kathleen Jordan is finishing the memoir of her late father, Hamilton Jordan, who former President Jimmy Carter said was the man who devised the political strategy that got a peanut farmer elected to the White House. She read excerpts from the book, including a special testimonial by Carter,and her father's reaction to finding out his maternal grandmother's name was Gottheimer and was Jewish.
Elizabeth Kiehner on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From Conversations with Allan Wolper | Part of the Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG series | 29:50
Elizabeth Kiehner, co-founder of Thornberg & Forester, shakes people up with her digital designs and storytelling techniques. She works with corporate clients, television and cable networks, actors such as James Franco, and nonprofit groups like The Malala Fund, which supports the work of activist Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban.
Elizabeth Kiehner, co-founder of Thornberg & Forester, shakes people up with her digital designs and storytelling techniques. She works with corporate clients, television and cable networks, actors such as James Franco, and nonprofit groups like The Malala Fund, which supports the work of activist Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban.
Exodus '47: Inside Out
From Inside Out Documentaries | 59:25
This is the story of three men who served aboard the Exodus 1947, a Jewish refugee ship that tried to run thousands of holocaust survivors past the British blockade of Palestine in 1947.
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At the helm was "Big Bill" Millman, a 19-year-old Navy boxing champ who "wouldn't take any crap from anybody." Frank Lavine was part of the deck crew. He was 22, and completely unprepared for the kind of battle he'd soon face against the British marines. And in the engine room, an electrician named Nat Nadler helped keep the boilers lit, never imagining that he was about to participate in the birth of a nation.
Before there was an Israel, these men, and nearly 40 others climbed aboard a rusted American ferryboat and set out from Philadelphia to transport thousands of Jewish holocaust survivors past the British blockade of Palestine. Other ships had tried it. But their ship, which would come to be known as the Exodus 1947, was the one that helped shape the political landscape of the Middle East for the foreseeable future.
"Exodus '47: Inside Out" is an hour-long account of the journey undertaken by the Exodus and its crew. Reporter Sean Cole weaves together interviews with three men who experienced that journey, Bill Millman, Frank Lavine and Nat Nadler, punctuating their accounts with archival audio and music.
"Exodus '47: Inside Out" is newly updated [4/08] and is an importtant addition to your programming in the 60th anniversary year of the founding of the state of Israel. This program may be considered "evergreen."
For more information about this and other Inside Out Documentaries, please contact Namita Raina, National Program Administrator, WBUR Boston. (617) 353-8160
nraina@bu.edu