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Hosted by Ira Wood · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 21 episodes
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The Lowdown is a weekly talk show on Pacifica Radio Network affiliate WOMR-FM, Provincetown, MA, focusing on books, science, politics, the arts, and social trends. From nationally known authors, politicians, and entertainers to local activists, artists, and eccentrics, The Lowdown reaches listeners throughout Cape Cod and the Boston suburbs with informed and lively conversation.
Ira Wood hosts The Lowdown with Ira Wood on WOMR-FM, a society show with 21 episodes published.
The N-word is the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language. But how can a word used to dehumanize Black people be a used by the Black community to express affection, humor, and defiance? That's one comp
Overwhelmed by 20 years of back-to-back unsatisfying sexual relationships, queer, award-winning memoirist Melissa Febos decides to go cold turkey to see what she can find out about life, sex, and love.
Justin Kaplan was an award winning biographer, a literary icon, and one of the most famous writers of his time. To his daughter, however, he was a complete mystery. In her new memoir biography, Hester Kaplan attempts to
Writer/researcher Jennie Durant spent 10 years following beekeepers as they trucked their hives across country to keep industrial farms pollinated...hives that face parasites, pesticides, punishing travel, and climate ex
Drawing on 50 hours of previously sealed interviews, correspondence from 18 archives and fresh conversations with friends and collaborators freely talking after Sondheim's death, biographer Dan Okrent reveals the emotion
Josh Owens spent 4 years as video editor and field producer at Infowars, a media universe where unproven conspiracy theories were delivered with absolute certainty, having sprung from the manic mind and unhinged fantasie
Award-winning science journalist Carlos Orsi talks about the history of the world's most popular and enduring pseudo-science, Astrology: how it morphed from a 5,000 year old vehicle for telling fortunes into a multi-bill
Historians rank eyeglasses as one of the most important inventions in human history, but why did the Catholic church throw the inventor in a dungeon for 13 years? What did people do before glasses? Why was wearing glasse
When Genevieve Wheeler Brown, a decorative arts expert from The Antique Road Show, was asked to evaluate a collection of blue and white pottery, hidden away for decades in an exclusive Manhattan townhouse, she had no ide
Brad Gooch is an award winning biographer of such gay iconic gay artists as Keith Haring and Frank O'Hara. Having lost his first love to the AIDs epidemic, he was lucky to fall in love again, with a guy who desperately w
After World War Two, 'The Greatest Generation' returned to America determined to enjoy the freedoms of a world liberated from fascism but another group of Americans were equally determined to finish the job Hitler starte
Journalist Danielle Crittenden lost her 32 year-old daughter to a sudden brain tumor and with that death life as she knew it. She talks with Ira about her new book, Dispatches from Grief, in which she describes how she,
Two pioneers of the Reproductive Rights movement, Byllye Avery and Loretta Ross, talk about transforming the landscape of reproductive care in the United States and ensuring three core human rights: to have a child, to n
Do you hate to disagree with people? Avoid arguments? Shy away from conversations with anyone who is likely to contradict your ideas? It's understandable why many of us in today's contentious society try to minimize disc
Longtime Wall Street Journal editor Paul Vigna gives us extraordinary take on where money came from, how it evolved, and how it became ‘almightier’ than almighty god.
Since her death at the age of 15, the name and image of Anne Frank have become archetypal symbols of hope for victims the world; her diary adapted for film, television, theatre, dance, classical music, opera, anime, and
Lindy West is a best-selling author, a comedian and an activist known for her sharp humorous work on feminism, body image, and on-line harassment. She talks about the reality of being a fat role model, contentedly living
Jessica Mitford was born in a wildly eccentric British noble family, a socialist among fascists, and became the best loved, bestselling muckraking writer in America. Award-winning biographer Carla Kaplan talks to Ira abo
Ebony and Jet Magazine Music Writer Margena Christian talks about the woman who wrote some of Motown's biggest hits, and saved the career of Stevie Wonder, but whose name is all but unknown, Sylvia Moy.
Brian Raftery is a journalist and podcaster specializing in pop culture, film history, and entertainment. He joins Ira to talk about his new book Hannibal Lecter: A Life which traces the history of America's favorite fic
Brad Gooch
biographer
1 appearance on this show
Danielle Crittenden
author and journalist
1 appearance on this show
Loretta Ross
author of Calling In
1 appearance on this show
Julia Minson
founder of the Constructive Disagreement Lab, author of How to Disagree Better · Harvard Kennedy School of Government
1 appearance on this show
Paul Vigna
editor · Wall Street Journal
1 appearance on this show
Lindy West
1 appearance on this show
Carla Kaplan
Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature · Northeastern University
1 appearance on this show
Brian Raftery
1 appearance on this show
Jennifer Wallace
award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author
1 appearance on this show
Daniella Mestyanek Young
bestselling author, cult survivor, US Army veteran, Harvard-trained organizational psychologist
1 appearance on this show
Genevieve Wheeler Brown
The Antique Road Show
1 appearance on this show
Margena Christian
Ebony and Jet Magazine
1 appearance on this show
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