Brando Skyhorse: The Shifting Faces of Personal Identity
Release Date: 09/08/2024
Gov. Phil Batt: "A Lucky Man"
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Marcia Franklin talks with former Idaho Governor Phil Batt about his life and legacy. Originally aired: 01/2027/2000
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Tom Ikeda: Public History, Hidden Stories
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Tom Ikeda, who provided critical research for Daniel James Brown’s book “Facing the Mountain,” discusses his Seattle-based non-profit, Densho. It preserves the stories of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Ikeda’s parents and grandparents were imprisoned in the Minidoka camp in Idaho. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 12/10/2021 The interview is part of Dialogue’s series Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known...
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Daniel James Brown: Facing the Mountain
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Daniel James Brown, the best-selling author of “The Boys in the Boat,” talks about his newest book, “Facing the Mountain,” which honors the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated unit of Japanese-Americans who fought in World War II despite the fact that many of their families were incarcerated in the United States simply for being of Japanese descent. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 12/3/2021 The interview is part of Dialogue’s series Since 1995, the conference has...
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Jon Meacham: Presidential Character
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
In the lead-up to the November 2016 elections, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham joined Dialogue host Marcia Franklin to talk about presidential character. Meacham talks with Franklin about the qualities he believes are essential to being a successful president, and the unique nature of the 2016 presidential race. An executive editor at Random House, Meacham is well-known for his appearances on political discussion programs. He started his journalistic career at the Chattanooga Times and rose to become the editor of Newsweek. Meacham was the speaker at the Idaho...
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David Epstein: The Sports Gene
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Marcia Franklin talks with David Epstein, an award-winning sports journalist and author of the bestselling book The Sports Gene. It delves into the controversial research on what role genetics plays in the development of athletic talent. The book also takes on the so-called “10,000 Hour Rule,” which contends that 10,000 hours of practice can produce mastery in a field, including sports. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 10/24/2014 The interview is part of Dialogue’s...
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Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Politics and Love
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
For decades, Russian poets have preserved both the suffering and the joy of their people - but for their honesty, some writers paid with their lives. World-renowned Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko talks with host Marcia Franklin about his life and work. Originally aired: 05/27/1999
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Marion Blumenthal Lazan: Remembering the Holocaust
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Host Marcia Franklin talks with Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan about her experiences in several concentration camps, including Bergen-Belsen, and her life educating others about how to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again. Lazan is the co-author of a young adult book about her experiences called Four Perfect Pebbles, and is the subject of a documentary called Marion's Triumph. Originally Aired: 09/05/13
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Rep. John Lewis: Last of the Big Six
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Marcia Franklin talks with Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), the last of the so-called "Big Six" leaders of the African-American civil rights movement. Lewis was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and played a seminal role in some of the 56 most important activities of the movement, including the Freedom Rides, the march from Selma to Montgomery and the March on Washington (at which he was the youngest speaker). He became a United States Representative in 1986. During their conversation, Lewis and Franklin discussed his emotions on the...
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Historian Robert Dallek: Hail to the Chief
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
Marcia Franklin interviews presidential historian Robert Dallek about the upcoming election and the qualities he believes are important in order to lead a country. Dallek, the author of more than a half dozen books, including a two-volume biography of President Lyndon Johnson, is a professor of history at Boston University. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television, and was the 2004 distinguished Idaho Humanities Council lecturer. Originally aired: 10/14/2004
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss: Creating "Game of Thrones," Part Two
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
In part two of her interview with David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, co-creators of “Game of Thrones,” Marcia Franklin talks with the duo about the effect the program has had on Northern Ireland, where they film, the technological breakthroughs the production has achieved, what they’d like the legacy of the series to be, and their next project. Don’t forget to subscribe, and visit the for more conversations that matter. Originally Aired: 11/11/2016 The interview is part of Dialogue’s series Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the...
info_outlineMarcia Franklin talks with author Brando Skyhorse about his life and works, focusing on his memoir, Take This Man. In the book, Skyhorse writes about what it was like to grow up thinking he was Native American and then to find out that was not true. He also discusses the topic of his next novel, Wall.
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Originally Aired: 11/15/2019
The interview is part of Dialogue’s series “Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference” and was taped at the 2019 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.
