Summary
Perspectives is a radio show produced and broadcast by WXXI. The weekly show will examine diverse topics, ranging from politics, education and health care to sports, religion and the arts. Each week listeners will hear compelling conversations with interesting and important people. Host, Curt Smith will talk with national and regional newsmakers, to help listeners understand how issues and events affect them personally.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week Perspectives begins a two-part salute to radio -- America's theater of the mind. The New York Times' Gerald Eskenazi d..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week's "Perspectives" salutes the new baseball season. Three experts discuss what a "Sports Illustrated" poll calls Upstate..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
New York State has produced many riveting fiction and nonfiction authors. This week's "Perspectives" profiles three of the best..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week "Perspectives" explores folklore in America from Paul Bunyan via Johnny Appleseed to Pecos Bill. Author and columnist ..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
In 1960, the Broadway musical "Bye Bye Birdie" yelped, "Kids! What's the matter with kids today?" This week's "Perspectives" a..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week "Perspectives" takes an in-depth look at two different U.S. Presidencies: one buoyed by mythology; the other, seeming..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week, on the eve of the Academy Awards, "Perspectives" features a man who has arguably written more and better about movies..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Last week "Perspectives" began a series on larger-than-life New Yorkers. This week it concludes by etching one man who might hav..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week "Perspectives" begins a special two-part series on larger-than-life New Yorkers. A week from now we explore a man who ..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
When Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency, Henry Kissinger said that history would vindicate him. "Henry," Nixon replied, "that..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week "Perspectives" explores football's Super Bowl: American secular religion, American rite. Pittsburgh and Seattle meet i..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week "Perspectives" examines the state of the national Democratic Party. Are they taking advantage of President Bush's wint..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week Perspectives etches three pivotal examples of what character is, and means. Historian Harry Turtledove recalls Abraham..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week "Perspectives" etches the what-if, how-close, what-might-have-been that changed the world. Suppose Gettysburgh had gon..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln left Springfield, Illinois, to assume the Presidency. He concluded, "I bid you an affectionate farewell..
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