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Aug 14, 2012 • Comments Closed Season One of Person Place Thing has concluded its radio run on WAMC, but now you can download the entire series or just listen right here in the website. Episode Four of PPT features guests Rickie Lee Jones and Ed Koch. Musician Rickie Lee Jones has excelled across many genres since she burst onto the...
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Aug 14, 2012 • Comments Closed Season One of Person Place Thing has concluded its radio run on WAMC, but now you can download the entire series or just listen right here in the website. On this third episode of Person Place Thing Randy welcomes guests Michael Pollan and John Hockenberry. Noted author Michael Pollan is the leading voice on food production...
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Aug 14, 2012 • Comments Closed Season One of Person Place Thing has concluded its radio run on WAMC, but now you can download the entire series or just listen right here in the website. On the second installment of Person Place Thing Randy welcomes Susie Essman and Dave Cowens. A stand-up comedian, actor and author, Essman is best known for...
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Jul 20, 2012 • Comments Closed For more than 20 years, sex columnist Dan Savage has made an international name with his advice column and podcast, Savage Love, and founded the It Gets Better Project to reach out to LGBT youth. A writer, editor, and playwright, Savage stars in MTV’s Savage U. Person: Caroline Matilda Place: The front porch of a...
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Jul 18, 2012 • Comments Closed From the TED@New York talks, here is Randy Cohen.
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Jul 18, 2012 • Comments Closed In an interview you should ask a movie star about her movies, an author about his books, a musician about her latest album. But Randy Cohen, the original New York Times Ethicist, hopes to bypass all those boring questions on his radio show “Person Place Thing” and find out what weird passions people of note...
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Jun 25, 2012 • Comments Closed On the fifth Person Place Thing Randy welcomes Samantha Bee and R.L. Stine . Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee got her start in comedy in children’s theatre, where she worked with future husband and fellow Daily Show reporter Jason Jones. The founder of sketch group The Atomic Fireballs, Bee is the author of I Know I Am,...
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Jun 15, 2012 • Comments Closed Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee got her start in comedy in children’s theatre, where she worked with future husband and fellow Daily Show reporter Jason Jones. The founder of sketch group The Atomic Fireballs, Bee is the author of I Know I Am, But What Are You. Person: Her mother Place: A jungle hotel in...
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Jun 15, 2012 • Comments Closed Horror writer R.L. Stine, a.k.a. Jovial Bob Stine, is the author of the hugely popular Goosebumps and Fear Street series, which have sold millions of copies. Educated at Ohio State, Stine has also written dozens of joke books, novels, and short stories. Person: Mad Magazine illustrator Will Elder Place: A creepy pile of stones behind...
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May 17, 2012 • Comments Closed Former New York City Mayor and Congressman — and, it should be noted, famed cinephile — Ed Koch spent three terms running the Big Apple and another eight years in the House of Representatives. Since leaving office, he has worked as a political reformer, commentator, actor, People’s Court judge, author, columnist and movie critic. Person:...
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May 17, 2012 • Comments Closed Musician Rickie Lee Jones has excelled across many genres since she burst onto the national radar as the Best New Artist at the 1980 Grammy Awards. With more than 15 albums to her credit, Jones has parlayed her distinctive voice into a lasting and varied career, often singing and writing about the small-town poverty and...
Journalist and author John Hockenberry has been covering hotspots around the globe and the U.S. for more than three decades. He has reported for NPR, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and various other outlets and written two nonfiction books. He currently hosts The Takeaway at WNYC and has won several Emmy and Peabody awards....
