Guest: Reza Zarghamee is and environmental lawyer and history author. He is the author of acclaimed book Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World (Iran’s Age of Empire).
Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation. His latest is Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny.
Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation. His latest is Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny.
KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare, directed by Eric Ting, at Cal Shakes (California Shakespeare Theater) extended through October 2, 2021.
Mick LaSalle, author of Dream State: California in the Movies, and film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded as a Zoom event for KPFA, edited for audio. A wide-ranging discussion that includes a look at the work of French director Eric Rohmer, movie viewing during the pandemic, the rise of long-form television, and the real reason why Dorothy should never have gone back to Kansas.
Guest: Mike Duncan, author of The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic.
ABOUT THE EPISODE: A small group of artists from We Rise Production went to the Mississippi headwaters in July 2021 and – with permission – gathered stories and sound. On this episode you’ll hear directly from people who have been on Anishnaabe land in Minnesota for months. What have they been doing there? Rising up … Continued
Guest: Adrian Goldsworthy is an award-winning historian of ancient Rome. He is the author of the several books including Caesar, How Rome Fell, Pax Romana, Augustus, and his latest Hadrian’s Wall.
Guest: Reza Aslan, Iranian-American writer, scholar of religions, and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside on his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.