This week’s show featured a conversation with comic actor Gene Wilder. Recently, he sat down with Robin Young, host of the WBUR program Here & Now, at Boston University’s Barnes and Noble bookstore. Wilder talked about his career on stage and in film as well as about his years with actress and comedienne Gilda Radner.
Wilder [...]

This show featured a panel discussion on developments in democracy in Ukraine and Russia, the relationship between the two countries, their history, and their future.
This panel discussion was sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. The panelists were Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Roman Szporluk, [...]

On this week’s show, writer, journalist and scholar Michael Ignatieff delivered a lecture entitled “The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in the War on Terror.”
Igantieff, who is currently professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, provided an international perspective to the debate over [...]

On this week’s show, Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen talked about the future of ballet and his vision for the company. The discussion was sponsored by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University as part of its Student Enrichment Series.
Mikko Nissinen is recognized internationally as an accomplished dancer, teacher, and artistic director. [...]