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The Roundtable

Joe Donahue, Sarah LaDuke

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!

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19:50

WAMC Uninterrupted Highlight: Music and Entertainment

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/16

At a time when trusted, fact-based journalism is more essential than ever, WAMC remains strong thanks to the support of our members, underwriters, and community partners. Your contributions ensure that everyone in our region can access in-depth reporting, diverse voices, and cultural programming that informs, inspires, and connects us.Sarah LaDuke speaks with Wanda Fischer, Host of The Hudson River Sampler, Bill McCann, Host of The WAMC Jazz Show (longtime Host of “The Saturday Morning Edition of

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42:05

WAMC Uninterrupted Highlight: New York Public News...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/15

At a time when trusted, fact-based journalism is more essential than ever, WAMC remains strong thanks to the support of our members, underwriters, and community partners. Your contributions ensure that everyone in our region can access in-depth reporting, diverse voices, and cultural programming that informs, inspires, and connects us.Sarah LaDuke speaks with WAMC’s News Director Ian Pickus, WNYC’s Jon Campbell, WNYC’s Jimmy Vielkind, and Executive Editor of WXXI News Denise Young.

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21:13

Jennifer Simard might be your person in "Death...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/14

Jennifer Simard is glowing, growling, stunning, and striving in eight shows a week as Helen Sharp in “Death Becomes Her” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway.The now three-time Tony Award nominated actor – “Death Becomes Her” received 10 Tony Award Nominations this month – is also a Webby Award winning podcast co-host, with Patrick Hinds, for “The Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast.”

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15:40

Troy Foundry Theatre's "Antonio, or What I Would" at...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/14

Troy Foundry Theatre’s latest production, “Antonio, or What I Would,” is a new exploration of the queerness of the devoted pirate in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” The piece was developed at the Play On Labs with Troy Foundry Theatre in 2024.Written by Brenna Geffers and Shayne David Cameris and performed by Cameris, “Antonio, or What I Would” features Jake Blouch’s music performed by Connor Armbruster and will have performances May 31st and June 1st at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga

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63:54

5/14/25 Panel

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/14

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Semi-retired, Editor at large/columnist/editorial writer, Times Union Jay Jochnowitz, Professor Emeritus of Russian at Hofstra University and author of: "Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia" Alexandar Mihailovic, Former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and Senior Fellow at

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25:12

WAMC Uninterrupted Highlight: The Media Project

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/14

At a time when trusted, fact-based journalism is more essential than ever, WAMC remains strong thanks to the support of our members, underwriters, and community partners. Your contributions ensure that everyone in our region can access in-depth reporting, diverse voices, and cultural programming that informs, inspires, and connects us. Sarah LaDuke speaks with WAMC’s Morning Edition host and multi-show producer, David Guistina, Former Editor of The Times Union, Substacker, WAMC Commentator and

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24:46

Book Picks: The Golden Notebook and Open Door Bookstore

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/13

This week's Book Picks come from James Conrad from The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, NY.

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17:23

The Berkshire Concert Choir will perform "This...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/13

"This Shining Night" is a choral concert from the Berkshire Concert Choir bookended by two different settings of James Agee's poem, "Sure on this Shining Night." Beginning at sunset and ending at sunrise, the program plunges deep into the human condition using the phases of the night as an extended metaphor for the complex topic of aging and memory loss.Berkshire Concert Choir will perform “This Shining Night” on Sunday May 18th at St Mark's Catholic Church in Pittsfield (Saturday Night Performance

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49:26

5/13/25 Panel

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/13

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Communications expert and Founder/President of Stanhope Partners Bob Bellafiore, Public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, The Empire Report’s JP Miller, and Former Times-Union Associate Editor Mike Spain.

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41:32

WAMC Uninterrupted Highlight: Vox Pop

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/13

At a time when trusted, fact-based journalism is more essential than ever, WAMC remains strong thanks to the support of our members, underwriters, and community partners. Your contributions ensure that everyone in our region can access in-depth reporting, diverse voices, and cultural programming that informs, inspires, and connects us.Joe Donahue and Sarah LaDuke speak with WAMC’s Vox Pop host Ray Graf, and Vox-Poppers Rich Guthrie (Birds), Carrie O'Loughlin (Pets & Vets) and Greg Ward

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20:29

James Romm's "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/12

In "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece," acclaimed historian and classicist James Romm draws on personal letters of Plato—documents that have long been kept in obscurity—to show how a philosopher helped topple the leading Greek power of the era: the opulent city of Syracuse.

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10:57

Annie Hartnett pens dark comedy "The Road to Tender...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/12

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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47:15

5/12/25 Panel

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/12

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Preceptor in Public Speaking for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University Terry Gipson, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio, Political Consultant Libby Post, and Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan.

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44:20

WAMC Uninterrupted Highlight: News Department

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/12

At a time when trusted, fact-based journalism is more essential than ever, WAMC remains strong thanks to the support of our members, underwriters, and community partners. Your contributions ensure that everyone in our region can access in-depth reporting, diverse voices, and cultural programming that informs, inspires, and connects us.Joe Donahue speaks with WAMC’s CEO Sarah Gilbert, WAMC’s News Director Ian Pickus, WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley, and WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief

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59:30

Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 217

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/10

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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18:05

Jeff Kisseloff's new book about Alger Hiss

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/09

Author Jeff Kisseloff’s new book, "Rewriting HISStory," is a political history that looks to uncover the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss. Kisseloff brings to light a wealth of original material, including 150,000 pages of mostly unredacted previously unreleased FBI files (which he sued the FBI to obtain) and other documents from government and library collections around the country.

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15:27

Jill Bialosky shares a personal history of her mother...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/09

Jill Bialosky’s new book, "The End is the Beginning," is a moving elegy, starting with her mother’s end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home.Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner, Iris’s life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness.

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13:51

"Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the...

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/09

"Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure" by Jennie Erin Smith is an account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease.Jennie Smith will be talking about and signing the new book on Saturday, May 10 at 3 p.m. at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, New York.

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67:19

5/9/25 Panel

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/09

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are communications expert and Founder/President of Stanhope Partners Bob Bellafiore, public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, and CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan.

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28:19

Congressional Corner with Sen. Peter Welch

The Roundtable ·

2025/05/08

Vermont U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat, speaks with WAMC's Ian Pickus on the Congressional Corner May 8, 2025.

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