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TBD with Tina Brown

Tina Brown, the legendary editor (Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Daily Beast) and best-selling author talks with actors, politicians, journalists, and the newsmakers of tomorrow’s social debates. Discover what to read, what to watch, and how to stay smart in today’s fast-moving times.

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Ted Bundy’s Secret World Jan 28, 2019

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Charming law student Ted Bundy became a mythic figure in American crime history, killing more than 30 women in six states in the 1970’s with a gruesome MO that included keeping some of their bodies for days. On the 30th anniversary of Bundy’s execution, Tina talks with Joe Berlinger, director of the new film "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” and the Netflix documentary “Conversations with a Killer” and Stephen Michaud, who taped over 100 hours of death-row conversations with Bundy and describes him as the “most personable sociopath I ever met.”

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Laura Wasser, Hollywood’s top divorce lawyer Jan 22, 2019

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When is the best moment to ask for a pre-nup? Why do brides obsess about the dress, flowers and cake instead of checking their state's child custody laws? Laura Wasser's clients have included Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Kim Kardashian and, currently, Jeff Bezos's new passion, Lauren Sanchez and her husband Patrick Whitesell. In this conversation with Tina, Wasser talks about everything a spouse needs to know when it's time to say “I don’t.”

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Gretchen Carlson’s Fierce Stand Jan 14, 2019

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The former Fox News anchor fired the opening shot in MeToo when she brought down Fox titan Roger Ailes, and received a $20-million settlement with an apology to boot. Now she’s made a documentary about the women whose MeToo stories are not being told. Carlson, a Stanford and Oxford alum and former Miss America, talks with Tina about escaping two sexual assaults, stripping swimsuits from the Miss America pageant, and how she’s going after McDonald’s for their handling of sexual harassment complaints from employees.

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Felicity Jones and Nina Totenberg on RBG's Fight Jan 08, 2019

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Tina talks with British-born actress Felicity Jones about playing the fearless Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and with NPR’s Nina Totenberg whose expertise almost makes her the tenth the Supreme Court justice. Why was Ginsburg’s husband such a feminist hero in his own right? Did Ginsburg make the right decision in choosing to stay on the court at the age of 85? Stories about a woman who rules--from the bench.

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Stephen Greenblatt on Why Tyrants Rise Jan 01, 2019

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Mad, bad rulers don't rise by accident. Tina talks with Harvard's Stephen Greenblatt, author of the provocative bestseller Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, about the uniformly infantile nature of tyrants, how they manipulate popular ignorance and how they're propelled by multiple enablers who only wake up when it's too late.

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Allison Janney's Tall Tales Dec 25, 2018

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Even if Allison Janney weren’t five-foot-twelve, there are a lot of reasons to look up to her as an actress. In an intimate interview with Tina, Janney talks about how she found her inner evil to play Tonya Harding’s icy mother, what an agent once said to her about the parts she should play, and why she doesn't watch press briefings by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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Margot Robbie, director Josie Rourke and biographer John Guy on the real Mary Queen of Scots Dec 25, 2018

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The superb new film Mary Queen of Scots rehabilitates the image of one of history’s most maligned monarchs. In a multi-part conversation, Tina talks with Margot Robbie, who plays Mary’s cousin and rival Queen Elizabeth I, first-time director Josie Rourke and Cambridge historian John Guy, who wrote the riveting revisionist biography on which the film is based.

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Aaron Sorkin's Big Bet Dec 18, 2018

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The verdict is in: Aaron Sorkin’s reimagined To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway is a hit. He talks with Tina about making Atticus Finch woke, what first made Aaron passionate about politics, and why Breitbart News was an unlikely source of inspiration.

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Michael Douglas' Basic Instincts Dec 11, 2018

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What would Gordon Gekko make of his fellow New York mogul Donald Trump being president? What’s it like to act your age in Hollywood? The two-time Oscar-winning actor and producer talks with Tina.

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Decoding Kara Swisher Dec 04, 2018

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Ever wonder who the smartest person in Silicon Valley is? Can Mark Zuckerberg ever restore faith in Facebook? And why are so many internet billionaires getting into the media business? In a no-holds-barred interview with Tina, the industry's most feared (and loved) journalist, Recode cofounder Kara Swisher, holds forth on the titans of tech and about how she found her place in the world as a gay woman.

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