Added 5.15.18. In this brief historical excerpt shortly following the 1973 publication of a young, Cambridge-educated Arianna Huffington’s critique of Western feminism, “The Female Woman,” Milt opens the disquisition with an admittedly chauvinist question: “What’s a nice Greek girl like you doing taking on the women’s liberation movement?” Arianna explains that although there has been no shortage of male chauvinist pigs to which she has been exposed in her homeland, and while she fully supports equal opportunity and equal pay, she was “repelled” by modern Western feminism for denigrating traditional female values and roles. Then she faces callers to the show.

Added 5.10.18. In this 2012 interview, Milt with author Paul Dickson brings to life the epic adventures of Major League Baseball’s most prodigious innovator, the larger-than-life Bill Veeck. The Baseball Hall of Famer – and owner, variously, of the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns – managed to offend and irritate other owners at the same time he delighted fans and sportswriters. To delve into Veeck’s colorful family, personal and professional history is to go on a ride across the landscape of broader 20th Century American culture and society. Dickson’s storytelling on this episode puts the listener right in the middle of it all. He is the author of 60 books including an equally colorful biography of Leo Durocher, and “Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary.”

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviewed writer and political analyst P.J. O’Roure about his other life as a car journalist. O’Rourke had just had published a collection of related articles titled, “Driving Like Crazy.” The chat veers from the golden era of the U.S. auto industry toward a range of related topics including: how both the manufacturing and hot-rodding of cars has changed; government regulation of the industry; and O’Rourke’s mad adventure driving a Land Rover across northern India.

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviews FDR’s eldest grandson Curtis Roosevelt Dall, who authored the book, “Too Close To The Sun: Growing Up In The Shadow Of My Grandparents Franklin and Eleanor.” They talk about Curtis’ take on growing up in the White House as one of the “First Grandchildren” during The Depression and World War II, and about his later years including his role in a feature-length documentary film, “Charlotte: A Royal At War.” To discuss that film about the ties forged – under Nazi-induced duress – between the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg and President Roosevelt, Milt and Curtis Roosevelt are joined by three other guests. They are the then-Luxembourg ambassador to the U.S. and Canada, Jean-Paul Senninger, and the two co-producers of the film, Candice Allen-Olson and Lynn Rothwell.

Salman Rushdie. Henry Kissinger, Charlton Heston, Howard Cosell, Mike Wallace, Mike Royko, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Buck O’Neill, Herblock and Pete Hamill are some of the memorable guests in this batch of outstanding excerpts from earlier programs.