An encore airing of Alan Chartock’s 2004 In Conversation interview with Loet Velmans; a Sheffield, Massachusetts resident who passed away in 2016. Loet did hard time in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War; and went on to become Chief Executive Officer of the Hill & Knowlton public relations firm. Alan speaks with Loet about his book Long Way Back To The River Kwai: A Harrowing True Story Of Survival In World War II.

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This week we present an encore airing from the Power Of Words series. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Author and Historian James Ledbetter about President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address. In addition, listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on January 17th, 1961. (more…)

WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Laura Walker, President of Bennington College. (more…)

This week, we bring you an encore interview with Dr. Alan Chartock speaking with the late Joseph Persico. Persico is the best-selling author of Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory During WWII. (more…)

This week on WAMC’s In Conversation With, we’re honoring veterans with an encore interview between WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Paul Elisha. Elisha was a WWII veteran, poet, professional musician, and longtime voice on WAMC. He died in 2015 at the age of 92. (more…)

We present an encore Power of Words, WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Richard Pfau discuss President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine speech. In addition, listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on March 12th, 1947. (more…)

This week, we present an encore interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Folk Icon Arlo Guthrie. The pair spoke in 2015 at the Mahaiwie Theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They discuss the movie Alice’s Restaurant. (more…)

This week, we present an encore airing of the documentary Pearl Harbor Over The Radio. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Ivan Steen and Dr. Ann Pfau. The pair guide Alan through a series of audio clips that capture how Americans heard the news of Pearl Harbor over their radios. (more…)

This week, we present an encore airing of the Power of Words. WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with the late, best-selling author Joseph Persico. The pair discuss President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. (more…)

This week on WAMC’s In Conversation With, Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with creative grief counselor Claudia Coenen. Coenen is a certified Thanatologist, and the author of Shattered by Grief: Picking Up the Pieces to Become Whole Again. Her new book is The Creative Toolkit.

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This week, we present an encore 2004 In Conversation interview with WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock and Folk Legend Tom Paxton. (more…)