Chautauqua Podcasts

Andrew Sorensen

Podcast Team — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:56:28 +0000

As the top administrator of a large university, priorities are important for Dr. Andrew Sorensen. In the week on “Sport in America,” The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell discusses how, as president of the University of South Carolina, he put those priorities into practice regarding the potentially competing interests of sports and academics. Sorensen discusses the trajectory that brought him to the position of university president, his views on the necessity of leadership, and the close relationship he built with the student body at USC – a place where students wore t-shirts with his picture and the saying “Andy is my homeboy.”

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Donna Lopiano

Podcast Team — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:43:03 +0000

Dr. Donna Lopiano is the immediate past CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation. Through her life, she has been a championship athlete, coach, athletics director, and is now regarded as one of the foremost experts on gender equality in sports. With The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Lopiano discusses the importance of sports for the young and old alike, her experiences as an athlete and trailblazing women’s athletics director, and discusses the similarities between organized sports and religion.

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Frank Deford

Podcast Team — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:16:48 +0000

A renowned sports journalist who has been with Sports Illustrated since the 1960’s, Frank Deford sits down with The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell to discuss much more than sports. Deford provides insight into the craft of writing, the loss of a young child, and why he thinks soccer is not as popular in the United States (and why that’s okay).

Download MP3 > 19:00 > 18.2 MB

2008 Season Is Almost Here

Podcast Team — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:06 +0000

The excitement of the 2008 season is clearly evident in this discussionof season events by Chautauqua President Thomas Becker and Director ofthe Department of Religion, Joan Brown Campbell.

Download MP3 > 25:50 > 24.8 MB

Updating the 2008 Season

Podcast Team — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:03:57 +0000

With the 2008 schedule nearly complete, host Mike Sullivan interviews Chautauqua President Tom Becker and Director of the Department of Religion Rev. Joan Brown Campbell. Becker and Campbell discuss the lecture program for the opening two weeks of the season and provide a brief rundown of the remaining seven weeks. Weeks Three through Nine will be discussed in more detail during a future podcast.

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2008 Season Preview: Chautauqua Opera Company

Podcast Team — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:58:09 +0000

The Chautauqua Opera Company's exciting 2008 season is the topic of discussion for Artistic/General Director, Jay Lessinger and podcast host, Mike Sullivan.

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2008 Season Preview: Lecture Platform, CLSC

Podcast Team — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:30:39 +0000

The discussion of the 2008 season continues with podcast host Mike Sullivan and Sherra Babcock, Director of the Department of Education. Topics range from who’s who at 10:45 to the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC) book selections and authors.

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2008 Season Preview

Podcast Team — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:41:45 +0000

In this first podcast of 2008, host Mike Sullivan discusses plans for the upcoming 2008 season with Chautauqua President Thomas Becker and the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Director of the Department of Religion.

Download MP3 > 22:34 > 5.41 MB

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Podcast Team — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:19:41 +0000

What does Dr. Ruth consider the most sexually arousing sentence? When should you not engage in sex? What does Dr. Ruth find scandalous about teenagers today? And why should you emulate the lowly turtle? Listen and find out. But Dr. Ruth also has lots to say that has nothing to do with sex. In this interview with The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, she talks of her life before she became the famed “Dr. Ruth,” of being part of the “Children’s Transport” that brought thousands of refugee Jewish children out of Nazi Germany, and of how music became a source of healing for her. For more information on Dr. Ruth Westheimer, please visit her website at drruth.com.

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Donald Antrim

Podcast Team — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:45:14 +0000

Jeffrey Simpson, host of this interview and author of American Elegy: A Family Memoir, and his guest, Donald Antrim, author of The Afterlife: A Memoir, share in common the angst they experienced in writing candid memoirs about their families and, in particular, the difficult relationship each had with his alcoholic mother. Antrim admits that accessing respect and admiration for his mother was challenging when she was alive, and describes what he calls his “obsessive loop” after her death. Acknowledging that children almost always see their parents through a somewhat distorted lens, Antrim talks movingly about discovering, after her death, new aspects of who his mother was and seeing her through fresh eyes

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