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Bill T. Jones Talks With Bill Moyers about Race & Revolution, George Floyd and A Cabin Boy Named Pip Jul 11, 2020

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Bill Moyers talks with dancer and artist Bill T. Jones. The two have come together during times of disruption before — during the Aids crisis, after 9/11 and now after George Floyd.

Bill Moyers talks with Rebecca Gordon about the Fourth of July Jul 03, 2020

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Bill Moyers talks with philosophy professor Rebecca Gordon about Black Lives Matter, America as a "failed state," and how the #BLM movement contains a prescription for what may save us.

Trump’s Grotesque Tulsa Speech and the Cult of Trump | Bill Moyers Talks with Jeff Sharlet Jun 25, 2020

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Bill Moyers talks with journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose reporting for Vanity Fair describes how Trump the orator has turned his reelection campaign into a militant crusade fueled by lies, conspiracy theories, and rhetoric that incites violence. Sharlet has been reporting on Trump’s rallies for years, and in his conversation with Bill he offers analysis of Trump’s grotesque Tulsa speech, that was viewed by over 7 million people on Fox News Saturday night. "He gave what I believe was the most rhetorically violent speech I’ve seen,” Sharlet says of Tulsa. "All these moments have been there before, but they were combined with a kind of explicitness. I haven’t heard them all in one speech before like this."

Bill Moyers talks with Rev. Dr. James Forbes About Juneteenth & America After George Floyd Jun 18, 2020

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Join us as Bill Moyers talks with Rev. James Forbes, a passionate advocate of celebrating Friday, June 19 as Juneteenth – the day in 1865 when the last of America’s slaves learned they were free. Because many states had refused to end slavery when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier, it took that long before Union troops landed in Texas with news that the Civil War was over and the quarter-million slaves in Texas were slaves no more. Since then, descendants of those former slaves have celebrated Juneteenth as their Independence Day. For the last five years Rev.Dr. James Forbes – senior minister emeritus of the city’s historic Riverside Church – has organized an acclaimed Juneteenth celebration in New York City, twice now at Carnegie Hall, this year online. Here for a conversation with him is his long-time friend, Bill Moyers.

Bill Moyers talks with Peter Nelson about his film The Pollinators Jun 15, 2020

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You only need to see this film if you eat food. The Pollinators is a cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the beekeepers and their bees face en route reveal flaws to our simplified chemically dependent agriculture system. We talk to farmers, scientists, chefs and academics along the way to give a broad perspective about the threats to honey bees, what it means to our food security and how we can improve it.

David Grossman & Bill Moyers talk about Faith & Reason May 31, 2020

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Bill Moyers speaks with David Grossman about the Bible and his new book on the Biblical giant, Samson.

Pema Chodron & Bill Moyers talk about Faith & Reason May 31, 2020

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Bill Moyers talk with author Pema Chodron about her spiritual journey.

Will Power & Bill Moyers talk about Faith and Reason May 31, 2020

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Will Power & Bill Moyers talk about Faith and Reason by Moyers on Democracy

Margaret Atwood & Bill Moyers talk about Faith & Reason May 31, 2020

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, critical essays and graphic novels. Her latest, THE TESTAMENTS, is the co-winner of the 2019 Booker prize and the much-anticipated sequel to THE HANDMAID’S TALE which is now a critically acclaimed television series. This was recorded in 2006 as a video and reposted here as a podcast episode.

Mary Gordon & Bill Moyers talk about Faith & Reason May 31, 2020

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Bill chats with writer Mary Gordon about faith and Christianity.