This Week's Guests: Robby Benson & Camie Bargerstock

Robby Benson is an American film and television actor, television director and educator. As an actor he was nominated for the three Golden Globe Awards. As a director Robby helmed over 100 episodes in television, from Friends to an entire season of Ellen.As a composer Robby has written scores for films, received two RIAA Gold Records for songwriting for Diana Ross and for The Breakfast Club soundtrack. Open Heart the musical by Robby Benson will open at Fairfield's Sondheim Center June 20.

Camie Bargerstock designed her a curriculum entitled The Cultural Organization of Death and Dying in which she studied America's perceptions, rituals, and systems surrounding death, dying, and grief, a reality she observes as rooted in a culture of fear and denial. She envisions a new paradigm, one that nurtures and embodies the end of life journey as a part of life and creative rite of passage worth crossing.

Next Week's Guests: Laura Dawn & Andy Zelleke

Laura Dawn is a political activist and singer/songwriter. She has been the Cultural Director for MoveOn.org and the MoveOn PAC since March 2004.She appears on Moby's latest album Hotel, and she toured the world with him for 7 months in 2005.

Andy Zelleke is the co-directorof the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining Harvard’s Kennedy School faculty, Zelleke was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.His articles on corporate governance have appeared in Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Directors & Boards, and Corporate Governance: An International Review.  read more »

Today's show will present rebroadcasts of three key interviews.

Michelle Obama is the wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms Obama has her BA from Princeton University and her law degree from Harvard University.

Former President Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas. His wife is presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton.

Jim Leach is the former United States Congressman from Iowa. He has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. In 2002, he voted against authorizing the use of force in Iraq.

Marci Shimoff is a best selling author. Her most recent book HAPPY FOR NO REASON: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, soared to #1 on many national bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com, and has debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
Marci is the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. In addition, she is a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.  read more »

This Week's Guests:
FORMER U.S.CONGRESSMAN MICKEY EDWARDS. Congressman Edwards was a member of Congress for 16 years and chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. He was national chairman of the American Conservative Union and one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation. He has taught at Harvard and Georgetown and is now on the faculty of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a vice president of the Aspen Institute. He has been a regular columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times and a weekly commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts and Washington, DC.
Congressman Edwards is the author of the book RECLAIMING CONSERVATISM. How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost and How it Can Find Its Way Back.  read more »

This Week's Show:

Mr. Bob Roth is the vice president of the David Lynch Foundation. Mr. Roth is the author of Transcendental Meditation, which was translated into fifteen languages, and A Reason to Vote. Bob is also an educator and a leading proponent for consciousness based education.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale was the forty-second Vice President of the United States (1977–1981) under President Jimmy Carter. He was also a two-term United States Senator from Minnesota and the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1984 against the incumbent, Republican Ronald Reagan.Later, during the administration of Democratic President Bill Clinton he served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 1993-1996.

This week's show will feature: Robert Watts & Robin Lim

Robert Watts was recently named as the Interim Executive Director of Canada’s first Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which will examine and make recommendations with respect to the Indian Residential School era and its legacy. Most recently Bob served as the Chief of Staff to the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine, where he was a member of the team that negotiated the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canada’s history.  read more »

Josh Romney, the thirty three year old son of presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Josh is on the campaign trail for his Dad. Josh recently visited all ninety nine Iowa counties.

Allan Cox, the author of Your Inner CEO, and founder of Allan Cox and Associates, Inc. Allan has authored seven previous books, including the best seller, Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter.

Next week -

exclusive half hour interview with presidential hopeful Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico.

A short interview with

and a full segment with  read more »

 

8am
Craig Jessop, Music Director, Mormon Tabernacle Choir
When Jessop became music director of the Choir in October 1999, he stepped into a position tailor-made for him. Not only had he served as the Choir's associate director from 1995 to 1999, he had also been a member of the Choir for four years during college. Growing up, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was his musical inspiration. Under his leadership, the Choir has continued to live up to its tradition of excellence and has explored new territory in the musical and performance realms. As the music director of not only the Choir, but also the Orchestra at Temple Square and the Temple Square Chorale,

830am
Ellen Chenoweth  read more »

1pm

Prior to his arrival at Princeton, Leach served 15 terms in Congress as a Republican representative from eastern Iowa. During his congressional career he served as chairman of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Asian
and Pacific Affairs, and was author or co-author of several significant pieces of legislation, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, reforming the financial services industry. He was educated at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, and the London School of Economics.

This will be the former Congressman's second appearance on Speaking Freely.

1:30pm

Sondra Ward - Recently appointed as Director of Strategic Marketing for the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, Iowa, Sondra had recently served as the spokesperson for the Tennis Channel based in Santa Monica, California. Ms. Ward has her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Stanford University.

Rebroadcast is Thursday at 8am.  read more »