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Exhilarating to watch them have dialogue back and forth and though it was 45 years ago, it spoke very much to the present tense. Brian and to your partner in crime . Morgan robert called me and said he had come across a bootleg tape of some of these debate between William Buckley and corbett all. Gore the doll. Gore vidal. I was very interested in him as a character. Buckley was someone we all knew from being such a tv presence, when i saw the debates i saw something that was really speaking to ...

As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan two. Monday on the communicators commissioner Michael Orielly on key issues before the fcc like net neutrality, regulating the internet, and the public response. When there is an open commission meeting, that information should be made available publicly. That would give an opportunity for everyone to know what we are thinking. Right now we have people who raise concerns regarding this, but they do not know exactly what is being put forth. They a...

And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 1962. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. A stunt. But, it really became more personal when gore went on the David Suskind show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a characters. He sort of made the rirght a the right a respectable place to be. Gore dismissed it and demanded equal time. Brian you knew gore vidal, did you know b...

Very annoying. But marc and abby . No strings. You know what they are . They are our new goto couple. Yeah. Its like we can call them up on a whim and boom were on a lear jet to monte carlo with the shmenkmans. Honey, their name is not shmenkman. Its shropshire. Shropshire . Shropshire. Too hard. Im stickin with shmenkman. [telephone rings] hello. Oh, hey, kel. Whats goin on . Oh, all right. Hold on a sec. Deacon and kelly wanna go out saturday night. They got a sitter. We got the shmenkmans on ...

Right now. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis the bb king was born into in the mississippi delta in 1925. He was working at the fields at seven and found solace in music and the church. Memphis with to less than three dollars in his pocket. He honed his guitar style in the streets of that city. His first break on the radio had him performing as beale street blues boy, later shortened to blues boy king. Lets look at a clip of him performing with his g...

A man shouting abuse in arabic attacks two gang is released. Also coming up on the show in sports byron continued their charge towards the coveted trouble the bundesliga champions overcame leverkusen in the german cup semifinals last night we have all eight goals coming up. And israel turned seventy today will need an israeli who remembers the fight for a jewish homeland and a palestinian who marks this day as the day of catastrophe. Im sumi so much gonda good to have you with us u. S. President...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with historian, author and Grammy Award-winning professor Rob Bowman about the new HBO doc miniseries STAX: SOULSVILLE U.S.A.

The Memphis soul label is the subject of the HBO Max documentary series, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. We listen back to archival interviews with Stax musicians Steve Cropper, Booker T. and Isaac Hayes.

The Memphis soul label is the subject of the HBO Max documentary series, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. We listen back to archival interviews with Stax musicians Steve Cropper, Booker T. and Isaac Hayes.

Multipart music documentaries come at us these days with the insistence and abundance of the old K-tel collections, scrambling to satisfy the cravings