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1. (So-Called) Life (Radiolab: Friday, 14 March 2008)

What are the consequences when humans start playing with life? The human imagination has always dreamed up fantastic creatures, but now biotechnology is making it easier and easier for us to actually create forms of life that have never existed befor…

2. Shulman for Congress (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 10 October 2008)

Dennis Shulman, a blind rabbi, clinical psychologist and Democratic Party nominee for the United States Congress in New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District, discusses his campaign.

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4. Movie Friday (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 10 October 2008)

We kick off with some of the world's leading filmmakers: Mike Leigh, and then Wong Kar Wai and his longtime cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Also: a look at J.B. Priestley’s 1957 play "The Glass Cage." And Please Explain is all about phot…

5. Memory and Forgetting (Radiolab: Friday, 08 June 2007)

According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesia…

6. The End of Oil? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 10 October 2008)

Is energy policy an environmental or a national security issue? Is there a difference? 30 Issues in 30 Days continues with a look at Barack Obama and John McCain’s alternative energy plans. Plus, the race for New Jersey’s 5th District.

7. Wong Kar Wai and Christopher Doyle, Longtime Collaborators (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 10 October 2008)

Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and his long-time cinematographer Christopher Doyle discuss their new film, "Ashes of Time Redux." It’s a remake of one of their earlier films, and it opens Fri. Oct. 10 at the Landmark Sunshine and Lincoln Plaza cinema…

8. Going Global (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 10 October 2008)

Special: live coverage of President Bush's speech on the financial crisis. Then, Carl Weinberg, chief economist for High Frequency Economics, react to the remarks and discusses the possible outcomes of today's G7 meeting and the implications …

9. Viola Unleashed (Soundcheck: Friday, 10 October 2008)

Garth Knox made his name as the violist in the celebrated Arditti String Quartet. Increasingly he's been a pioneer of the viola d'amore, a baroque viola precursor, exploring its possibilities in modern music and period appropriate pieces. He join…

10. Movie Friday (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 10 October 2008)

We kick off with some of the world's leading filmmakers: Mike Leigh, and then Wong Kar Wai and his longtime cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Also: a look at J.B. Priestley’s 1957 play "The Glass Cage." And Please Explain is all about phot…