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John Rassias is a professor at Dartmouth and a renowned teacher of language teachers. The Rassias Method is aimed at engaging the students and getting them to talk as much as possible. John Rassias talks about his method, the importance of learning a foreign language, and what's wrong with traditional foreign language courses. He also teaches John a little Greek!
Rebroadcast from May 2002.

Woody Allen has had a long and very successful career in the movies. For almost four decades, he?s been pursuing his own vision despite the cutthroat nature of Hollywood. In his latest book, Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed, Keene State College philosophy professor Sander Lee looks at the filmmaker?s evolution from pure comedy to more serious examinations of life.
Rebroadcast from September 2002.

In the 1940s, Richard "Boo" Morcom was one of the best athletes in the country. He was a pole vaulter in the 1948 Olympics.
Boo competed in Masters track and field until just a couple years ago. He has held world records in several Masters events and still holds a couple of pole vault records: outdoor, age 65 and older (12.4 feet) and indoor, age 70 and older (10.3 feet).
Boo spent most of his adult life as a track and field coach and he was a pioneer in creating opportunities for female athletes. He?s now in his early 80s, living in New Hampshire, and is a volunteer coach at a Kearsarge Middle School.

It is the year 2055 and America is entangled in a devastating world war?and losing badly. As the threat of homeland invasion grows stronger, the United States is desperate to change the tide, anyway it can.
Enter Sal Hayden, official biographer of a former president known as BC, now 109 years old and all but forgotten. Charismatic, controversial, and always willing to feel another person?s pain, BC?s political career, like his personal life, is marked by both uncanny triumphs and key blunders?some of which may have doomed the U.S. to defeat. Recording his story has not always been easy, but it has been straightforward. That is, until the day Sal is asked to rewrite it?and not just on the page.
That?s the premise of the new novel, The X President, by Philip Baruth. Philip talks about the Clinton years and his inspiration for his tale of politics and spin.

Vermont?s bucolic image is shattered in Archer Mayor?s new book, Gatekeeper. It?s the latest in his Joe Gunther series of crime novels. It?s about the heroin trade in Vermont and the horrors that go along with it. Archer Mayor did a lot of research for the book. He?s also an assistant medical examiner for the state of Vermont as well as an EMT for the Brattleboro area. Both have brought him face to face with the consequences of Vermont?s heroin troubles. Archer talks about the war on drugs, some of the things he?s seen, and what?s ahead.