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Wed 8.27.08| Punk, Politics, and Commercialism

The Clash's Joe Strummer embodied for many the marriage of music, radical politics, and internationalism. Joel Shalit and Craig O'Hara talk about the times in which The Clash and other political punk rock bands were spawned and examine the thorny issues that arise from the commercial success of rebel cultural groups and movements. (Encore presentation.)

Mon 8.25.08| Rethinking the French Revolution

The French Revolution challenged the divine right of kings and heredity priviledge -- and its radicalism is still controversial today. Comedian Mark Steel, author of Vive La Revolution! A Stand-up History of the French Revolution, talks about the enduring legacy of that watershed rebellion.

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