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In this new kind of interview show, Randy Cohen talks to guests about a person, a place, and a thing they feel strongly about. The result: some great talkers tell stories they never have before. Visit PersonPlaceThing.org.

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Oct 29, 2017

Things have changed since she moved to a small town in the Hudson Valley. Now there are scented-candle stores to the left of her, a neighbor with a grenade launcher to the right of her, volleyed and thundered. Gentrification and odder incursions go rural. Plus memories of Spalding Gray, poetry from Bob Holman, music...


Oct 22, 2017

Having led The Environmental Defense Fund for more than 3 decades, he knows its history. “The founding motto, informally, of EDF was ‘Sue the bastards,” he recalls. Today its guideline is, “Environmental problems are solvable if people would just get on with solving them and stop shouting at each other.” Has...


Oct 14, 2017

Does a sense of humor make you a better person? Bill Persky thinks it might, and he should know. He wrote for the Dick Van Dyke Show, co-created That Girl for Marlo Thomas, and directed 100 episodes of Kate and Allie. He says this about the president: “Nobody’s ever seen him laugh. He sneers, he smiles, he does...


Oct 8, 2017

He trained in pediatrics, was the acting head of the CDC, the chief medical editor for ABC News, and is now the CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Some people just can’t hold a job. Along the way, he’s had a run-in with deadly tainted apple cider and courteous but critical Diane Sawyer. Two separate events....


Oct 1, 2017

When he was mayor of New York, from 1978 to 1989, I’d often see him around town – in a Chinese restaurant, at the movies - where he was happy (or at least willing) to talk to us ordinary New Yorkers. The city was his home, not someplace he passed through in an SUV surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards. In this...