Television writer and producer Robin Green reflects on the 20th anniversary of The Sopranos.

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Television writer and producer Robin Green reflects on the 20th anniversary of The Sopranos.

Listen back to a 2005 interview with author and educator John Dizikes. We discuss the career of opera’s great Maria Callas. John Dizikes passed away in December 2018. Also a chat with artist Robynn Smith.

Bob Spitz, author of great books on The Beatles and Julia Child, returns to discuss Reagan: An American Journey.

Jazz historian Gary Giddins discusses his latest volume of his biography of Bing Crosby, Swinging On A Star: The War Years 1940-1946.

Journalist and television historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong returns to discuss her new book, Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed The Way We Think, Live And Love.

Karina Longworth talks about her new book, Seduction: Sex, Lies And Stardom In Howard Hughes’s Hollywood.

Novelist Hazel Gaynor returns to discuss her latest book The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter.

David Hollander discusses his book, Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History Of Library Music

Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, discusses his new memoir, Been So Long: My Life And Music.

Historian Simon Baatz returns to discuss his latest book, The Girl On The Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, And Madness At The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century