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Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious

Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious

Season 1 Episode 51
5:57
Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys

Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys

Season 1 Episode 52
5:44
Nina Simone on Shock

Nina Simone on Shock

Season 1 Episode 53
5:23
Garrison Keillor on Humor

Garrison Keillor on Humor

Season 1 Episode 54
5:43
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

Season 1 Episode 55
6:09
Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

Season 1 Episode 56
5:22
Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine

Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine

Season 1 Episode 57
4:31
Jane Goodall on Instinct

Jane Goodall on Instinct

Season 1 Episode 58
5:42
Richard Feynman on What It Means

Richard Feynman on What It Means

Season 1 Episode 61
5:31
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials

Season 1 Episode 62
4:50
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Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

Season 1 Episode 50

"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison. Lawrence Grobel explained how he became the lucky journalist to get the Patty Hearst interview for Playboy after she had served two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence.

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A lost 2009 interview with Maurice Sendak on childhood.
James Brown on Conviction, Respect and Reagan
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A classic lost interview with the "Godfather of Soul", James Brown.
The Beastie Boys on Being Stupid
5:36
Interview by Rocci Fisch for ABC News Radio, 1985, Washington, D.C.
David Foster Wallace on Ambition
4:14
Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC, March 4, 1996
Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales
3:58
Wilt Chamberlain in 1992 as interviewed by Ann Liguori.
Larry King on Being Seduced
3:48
Larry King recalls a moment of "radio interruptus". From a lost 2001 Esquire interview.
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