During the Spring and Summer of 2020, with the police murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Jacob Blake, and the Covid pandemic surpassing 215,000 American deaths, Peter felt it important to have another conversation with Cassie Schwerner

Episode 6: “Freedom Summers: Part 1," a Conversation with Steve and Cassie Schwerner

Feb 19th, 2021 46m 45s

At the outset of 1964's "Freedom Summer," the KKK murdered civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Schwerner's brother Steve and niece Cassie talk with Peter about the lasting impa

Episode 5: “The Right Things,” a Conversation with Congresswoman Liz Holtzman

Feb 5th, 2021 48m 37s

In 1972, Holtzman became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Defeating 50-year-incumbent Emanuel Celler, she shortly became the only Judiciary Committee member gutsy enough to ask Gerald Ford whether he'd pardoned Nixon as a quid pro q

Episode 4: “Ritual Objects,” a Conversation with Theater Director Carey Perloff

Jan 29th, 2021 43m 20s

Director, playwright, author, and kickass warrior for cultural excellence Perloff met Peter in 1988, when she cast him as the seductively sinister Goldberg in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. The two discuss language, wit, doom, humor, chil

Episode 3: "Looking for America," a Conversation with Salsa Recording Star, Rubén Blades

Jan 22nd, 2021 42m 8s

Rubén and Peter examine the influence of family on building a life's credo, the decisions and luck affecting that life, and the perennial search for a true and just "America." www.vocalheroes.com

Episode 2: “Criminal History," a Conversation with Author Matthew Goodman

Jan 15th, 2021 44m 3s

Matthew Goodman and Peter discuss creativity, the undertow of corruption snaking through New York City's--and America's--history, and Goodman’s book The City Game. This, his fourth work of historical non-fiction, recounts a mid-century tale of

Episode 1: "Katy & Boon," a Conversation with Karen Allen

Jan 8th, 2021 42m 28s

Karen Allen made her film debut playing Katy to Peter’s Boon in Animal House.On the road to that moment? Two hands seen typing all winter through a distant apartment window,a four-hour play in Polish, and an index card tacked up inside a Manh