The Roundtable

The Roundtable

WAMC's The Roundtable is an award-winning, nationally recognized eclectic talk program. The show airs from 9 a.m. to noon each weekday and features news, interviews, in-depth discussion, music, theatre, and more!

Episodes

Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 230

August 23, 2025 • 59 mins
Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.
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40th Anniversary of New Wave pioneer Howard Jones' "Dream into Action"

August 22, 2025 • 24 mins
Howard Jones’ groundbreaking 1985 album, Dream Into Action, peaked on the UK charts and cracked the US Top 10. It went on to spawn global hit singles, “Things Can Only Get Better” (which experienced a resurgence after being featured on an episode of Netflix’s Stranger Things) and “No One is to Blame” as well as “Life in One Day” and “Like to Get to Know You Well."
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The new book is "Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West" by Peter Cozzens

August 22, 2025 • 15 mins
Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend—from nineteenth-century dime novels to prestige dramas to the casino billboards outside of present-day Deadwood— author Peter Cozzens unveils the true face of Deadwood South Dakota. He does so in his new book “Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West.” It is the true story of the Black Hills goldrush settlement once described as the most diabolical town on earth.
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8/22/25 Panel

August 22, 2025 • 88 mins
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Former EPA Regional Administrator, Professor at Bennington College, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI Jim Hendler, and Siena University Professor of Economics Aaron Pacitti.
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New Marlborough Meeting House hosts the talk "Trump, Tariffs, and the Trouble Ahead" with Paul Krugman led by Ellen Pollock

August 21, 2025 • 21 mins
“Trump, Tariffs, and the Trouble Ahead” is the name of the talk to be given by Paul Krugman the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former “New York Times” columnist at the New Marlborough Meeting House. It will explore the political and economic fallout of the second Trump Administration as well as the state of the nation and his career as one of Americas most prominent public intellectuals. It will be a candid and lively discussion...
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Giri Nathan's new book is “Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis”

August 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Award Winning tennis Writer Giri Nathan joins us to tell us the story of the end of one epic era in the sport of tennis and the birth of another in “Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis.”
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SPAC presents "Back to the Future in Concert" on 8/23

August 21, 2025 • 9 mins
It will be a lot of fun at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Saturday night as the film “Back to the Future” will be shown with The Philadelphia Orchestra playing the music. Yes, you can recharge your flux-capacitor and get ready to celebrate the movie classic as you’ve never seen or heard it before. It is celebrating its 40th Anniversary of the movie and it is incredible especially with the Philadelphia Orchestra. To tell us ...
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8/21/25 Panel

August 21, 2025 • 81 mins
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Preceptor in Public Speaking, Strategic Communications, and Public Relations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University Terry Gipson, Grants analyst Emily Honen, and Mayor of the City of Albany Kathy Sheehan.
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A memoir on the survival of true love after death, "Grief ... A Comedy," by Alison Larkin available now in print and audio editions

August 20, 2025 • 22 mins
Berkshire-based actor, voice over artist, comedian, and audiobook narrator and producer, Alison Larkin joins us again with the next chapter in her tumultuous, marvelous journey finding her way to live - before she meets her soulmate, Bhima, and after she loses him.Her book, “Grief … A Comedy” is available now.
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SPAC presents "Copland & Bates with Time for Three" on 8/21

August 20, 2025 • 18 mins
The program "Copland & Bates with Time for Three" takes place Thursday Night with The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs at 7:30pm. It is led by “2022 Musical America Conductor of the Year” Teddy Abrams.
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Sarah Jones new book "Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass"

August 20, 2025 • 12 mins
In a blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting “New York Magazine’s” Senior Writer, Sarah Jones, exposes the reality of America’s racial and income inequality. Also, the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation’s most vulnerable people.Her new book is “Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass." “Disposable” is an exploration of that underclass left vulnerable by systemic racism and capitalism. She delves i...
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8/20/25 Panel

August 20, 2025 • 77 mins
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness Homeland Security and Cyber Security at UAlbany Bob Griffin, and Executive Director of The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York Nic Rangel.
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Book Picks - Odyssey Bookshop and The Bookstore in Lenox

August 19, 2025 • 26 mins
This week's Book Picks comes from Joan Grenier – owner of the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA and we also welcome Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, MA.
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Berkshire Opera Festival presents Verdi's "La Traviata"

August 19, 2025 • 13 mins
World-class, fully-staged opera returns to the Berkshires, as the Berkshire Opera Festival gets ready to celebrate its tenth anniversary season in Great Barrington, MA.The only company of its kind in the Berkshire region, Berkshire Opera Festival produces opera at the highest level under the vision of Co-Founders Brian Garmen – the William E. Briggs Artistic Director - and Director of Production – Jonathan Loy.The 2025 mainstage at...
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8/19/25 Panel

August 19, 2025 • 91 mins
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College as well as a specialist on the history of US foreign policy Robert Brigham, Executive Director of Communities for Local Power and former White House Advance Lead Anna Markowitz, and Professor Emeritus of Russian at Hofstra University and author of: “Illiberal Vangua...
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Annie Hartnett pens dark comedy "The Road to Tender Hearts"

August 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Annie Hartnett is the author of “Unlikely Animals: The Novel” which won the Julia Ward Howe Prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the author of “Rabbit Cake,” a finalist for the New England Book Award. Her latest novel is “The Road to Tender Hearts” which is a darkly comic and also warm hearted story about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush.
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Dromfest 2025 in Catskill, NY

August 18, 2025 • 26 mins
Dromfest, the ’90s indie rock festival in the Catskill, NY hosted by Dromedary Records, will hold its 2025 edition over Labor Day Weekend (August 29-31) at The Avalon. (As of this posting, Saturday and Sunday are sold out but there are tickets for Friday.)Friend of the Roundtable Will Hermes spoke with Dromedary Records founder Al Crisafulli.
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27th Kateri Peace Conference in Fonda, New York

August 18, 2025 • 8 mins
The 27th Kateri Peace Conference takes places on Friday, August 22 and Saturday, August 23 in Fonda, New York is titled "Palestine and Israel: Tragedy, Trauma, Truth & Compassion." For a preview we welcome one of the main speakers at the conference, Phyllis Bennis.
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8/18/25 Panel

August 18, 2025 • 81 mins
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College Malia DuMont, Political Consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vassar College Catherine Tan.
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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 229

August 16, 2025 • 59 mins
Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.
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