Thoughtcast
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ThoughtCast (www.thoughtcast.org) is a podcast and public radio interview program with authors and academics. The interviews are conducted by Jenny Attiyeh, a former public radio and TV reporter from Manhattan and elsewhere whose previous work focused on covering the arts and ideas. ThoughtCast aims to offer a "bridge between the publications and pursuits of the intellectual world and a curious, informed, mainstream audience." ThoughtCast is marked by its pace and focus: its segments consist of detailed, unhurried and personal conversation with current writers and thinkers.
[edit] Range of Guests
ThoughtCast thus far has a strong New England emphasis, with a majority of the interviewees being Harvard professors. Guests have ranged from Lisa Randall , the Harvard theoretical physicist; to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen , to Alan Dershowitz , who needs no introduction (he speaks on the subject of pre-emption and the Israel-Hezbollah war ); to Sam Huntington of Clash of Civilizations fame, to public radio program directors, to biographers Megan Marshall and Carol Bundy, to philosopher Simon Blackburn, author of the recent book Lust, of Cambridge University, England; to David Weinberger and two other netizens on the Web 2.0 who attended a Symposium on Social Architecture that took place at Harvard Law School.
[edit] Means of Distribution
In addition to podcasting ThoughtCast, the program is listed on the Public Radio Exchange, which provides public radio stations throughout the country the means to broadcast segments. WGBH, an arts and culture public radio station in Boston, has broadcast many ThoughtCast interviews, and also features the program on its Forum Network. But what ThoughtCast is hoping to do is find a 'watering hole' of sorts, online, for likeminded producers and listeners of content. This way, of course, those who value say, a half-hour on Virgil's Georgics, can more easily find -- and comment on it!
[edit] External Links
Broadcasts of ThoughtCast interviews (a sampling):
- Alan Dershowitz on WGBH
- Megan Marshall on The Peabody Sisters on WGBH
- The Web 2.0 and beyond - a conversation on KYOURadio
- Carol Bundy and Robert Pinsky on WCAI/WNAN
- Lisa Randall on WGBH
PRX reviews of ThoughtCast interviews:
- Amartya Sen
- Alan Dershowitz
- Virgil's "Georgics"
- Megan Marshall's biography of the Peabody Sisters of Salem, MA
- Ilan Stavans
Media coverage:
- Internet pioneer Bob Doyle introduces ThoughtCast in Econtent Magazine article "The First Podcast"
- Associate producer Susan Wennemyr discusses ThoughtCast in Amherst Bulletin
