Mack Brown
Air Date: 9-7-06
Football Coach, The University of Texas
Yes, we interviewed Longhorn Coach Brown a few years ago. But that’s a very different thing after the team has won a national championship. Join us for an update, and a preview of the 2006 season.
James Baker
Air Date: 10-5-06
Former Secretary of State
James Baker’s role as political insider reaches back to the Ford administration, and includes stints as Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of Staff. He talks with Evan Smith about his history and his relationship with today’s White House.
Al Franken
Air Date: 10-19-06
Political Commentator
It’s no secret that Al Franken is funny. But he’s also well-informed, rabidly opinionated about the country’s politics and on a mission to help other people see the world as he does.
John Kerry
Air Date: 11-2-06
United States Senator
With the midterm elections just days away, big names on both sides are fighting for candidates across the US. We caught Senator John Kerry during a stop in Texas, where he talked about the 2006 election and took us to an alternate universe – one where he won the race for President in 2004.
Judith Ivey
Air Date: 11-9-06
Actress
Tony-winning actress Judith Ivey has found success on stage and on screens both big and small. Evan Smith talks with her about women of a certain age in Hollywood, her role in Flags of our Fathers and the perils of performing nude.
Doro Bush Koch
Air Date: 11-30-06
Author, My Father, My President
Love and loyalty blanket every page of My Father, My President, a personal biography of George H.W. Bush. The daughter of 41 and sister of 43 shares her insights about her relatives, the Presidents.
Tom Brokaw
Air Date: 12-14-06
Broadcast Journalist
You know the Tom Brokaw who anchored NBC Nightly News and wrote a bestseller called The Greatest Generation. Now meet the Brokaw who loves his small hometown and seeks advice on being hip from his daughter.
Gregory Curtis Air Date: 12-21-06
Author
Air Date: 12-21-06
Author
Mix a journalist’s investigative skills, a passion for art and a drive to understand the past, and you’ll get art history books that read like great mysteries. Former Texas Monthly editor Gregory Curtis takes us inside ancient caves through his latest book.
Gore Vidal
Air Date: 1-11-07
Writer
Sixty years after publishing his first novel, Gore Vidal still has something to say about almost everything. Join us as the writer, social commentator and professional provocateur delivers an interview that’s true to form.
Pete Laney
Air Date: 1-18-07
Former Speaker, Texas House of Representatives
For the first time in more than three decades, the Texas Legislature will convene without Pete Laney. The Panhandle Democrat, who retires from office this month, talks with Evan Smith about the political state of our state.
Margaret Spellings
Air Date: 1-25-07
United States Secretary of Education
She’s a cabinet member. She’s the mother of school age children. And she’s the public face of education in the US. Hear what Secretary Spellings has to say about some of the hottest issues around, including No Child Left Behind and education reform.
Steven Weinberg
2-8-07
Physicist
Dr. Steven Weinberg currently holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy departments. His research on elementary particles and cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 and the National Medal of Science in 1991. Educated at Cornell, Copenhagen, and Princeton, he has taught at Columbia, Berkeley, M.I.T., and Harvard where he was Higgins Professor of Physics before coming to Texas in 1982.
Tom Vilsack
2-15-07
Democratic Candidate for President
Tom Vilsack was elected Iowa’s 39th governor in 1998, the first Democrat elected to lead the state in more than thirty years. He was re-elected to a second term in 2002. Late last year, after the election of his successor, Governor Vilsack became the first announced candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. A native of Pittsburgh and a graduate of Hamilton College (like the host of TEXAS MONTHLY TALKS) and Albany Law School, he and his wife, Christie, have two sons.
