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Forum Network

Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas

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Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) Forum Network is an online, on-demand archive of discussions given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy-makers and community leaders. These discussion events are hosted by cultural and educational organizations in metro Atlanta and beyond. Through the Forum Network, people across the world can now listen and watch these events online. We encourage our audience to browse our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore all lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide our viewers with added information lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. **About Atlanta Public Broadcasting ** Great cities are known by their museums, theaters, symphonies and parks. But the greatest impact on a city's cultural life radiates invisibly through the air. For Atlanta, that cultural force is Public Broadcasting Atlanta. WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30, brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as "educational television" -- strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.

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  • Jon McTaggart: Inside American Public Media

    Tue, Jul 8, 2008
    Jon McTaggart, chief operating officer of American Public Media (APM), talks to Public Broadcasting Atlanta's special group of supporters, known as the Cornerstone Society. APM produces programs like *MarketPlace* and *A Prairie Home Companion*.
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  • E. Lynn Harris: Just Too Good To Be True

    Wed, Jul 23, 2008
    E. Lynn Harris talks about his latest novel, *Just Too Good To Be True*, a story about mothers and sons, football and beauty shops, secrets and lies. This event is hosted by Outwrite Books.
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  • Irish Furniture and the Irish Georgian Society

    Tue, Oct 21, 2008
    Christie's vice president James Peill and Desmond Fitzgerald, 29th Knight of Glin and president of the Irish Georgian Society, present at Deadwyler Finest Period Furniture. The two collaborated on the book, *Irish Furniture*, and Fitzgerald talks about the Society, which observes its 50th anniversary on this date and celebrates by opening an Atlanta chapter.
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  • Renee Montagne: Producing Morning Edition

    Fri, Dec 10, 2004
    Renee Montagne relates her experiences as a journalist for National Public Radio and what it takes to produce *Morning Edition*. **Renee Montagne** has been co-hosting NPR's *Morning Edition* since December, 1994. Montagne is a familiar voice on NPR and has served as a correspondent and occasional host on *Morning Edition* since 1989. She has worked for NPR's science, national, and foreign desks and served as co-host with Robert Siegel on *All Things Considered*.
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  • David Brown: Marketplace's Renaissance Man

    Fri, Nov 19, 2004
    David Brown discusses his experiences as a journalist, world economics, and the complexities of producing a business news magazine like Public Radio International's *Marketplace*. A true Renaissance man, *Marketplace* host David Brown is a motorcycle-loving, history-reading, Southern-born gentleman who believes that Alexis de Tocqueville's *Democracy in America* should be required reading for all citizens. An enigmatic and multifaceted individual, he would love to have had the opportunity to interview T.E. Lawrence, and believes that journalists have the honor and heavy responsibility of writing the first draft of history. Brown is also one of public radio's most highly respected and broadly experienced hosts and producers. He joined *Marketplace* in the fall of 2000 as senior producer.
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  • Kai Ryssdal: Anatomy of Marketplace

    Thu, Oct 6, 2005
    Kai Ryssdal, host of Public Radio International's *Marketplace*, describes how stories are chosen for the program, what changes are coming in the program's future, and what's happening in the world of business.
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  • Religious Influences on International Affairs

    Wed, Jun 11, 2008
    Mark Douglas shares his expertise as it pertains to today's current events.
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  • Five Lessons on Breast Cancer

    Sat, Jun 7, 2008
    Shelley Lewis introduces her latest book, *Five Lessons I Didn't Learn From Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did)*, which interweaves the author's personal story, interviews with breast cancer survivors, and a sharp-eyed journalist's look at the breast cancer “community.”
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  • Claire Cook: Summer Blowout

    Thu, Jun 12, 2008
    Claire Cook talks about the making of her writing career and her latest book, *Summer Blowout*. The book updates the themes of love and disenchantment present in two of her other books, *Life's a Beach* and *Must Love Dogs*. Cook also wrote *Multiple Choice* and *Ready to Fall*. This event was hosted by the Borders Books in Buckhead.
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    PBA

  • J.M.W. Turner: British Master of Watercolor

    Tue, Aug 12, 2008
    Janice Simon discusses what makes artist J.M.W. Turner so important to the history of watercolor. This event was hosted by the Madison Gallery in Atlanta.
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