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He was the quintessential sportswriter. For almost 75 years, Shirley Povich wrote a daily column that mixed sports with sociology and statistics with historical insight, and kept Washington Post's readers absorbed. We look back at his career, and the influence he had on sports as a whole.
George Solomon, Columnist and former Sports Editor, The Washington Post; Visiting Professor, Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland; also former ESPN Ombudsman
Maury Povich, co-editor, All Those Mornings at The Post (Public Affairs)
When Marie Curie discovered radium in 1898, no one knew that forty-seven years later, her insight would lead to the creation of the A-bomb. With this summer marking the 60th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we look at the people, the science and history that lead to the creation of the atomic bomb.
Diana Preston, author, "Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima" (Pub: Walker & Company)
You may not know his name, but you've heard his work: award-winning public radio documentaries like "Witness to an Execution" and "The Yiddish Radio Project." David Isay is an oral historian and one of public radio's most prolific and well-respected documentarians. He joins Kojo to discuss his career in public radio, including his latest project, which takes StoryCorps on the road.
David Isay, Oral historian, radio documentarian and president of Sound Portraits
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