How To Balance The State Budget; Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable; The Future Of The Middle East; Tom Hanks, Executive Producer Of HBO's Miniseries John Adams
How To Balance The State Budget
Cut education funds? Raise taxes? Larry and his guests John Laird, Democratic State Assemblyman representing the 27th district, and Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, and Rick Keene, Republican State Assemblyman representing the 3rd district, discuss possible options for how to balance California's budget.
Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with Steven Cuevas, KPCC's Inland Empire Reporter, Cassie MacDuff, columnist with The Press Enterprise, and David Kelly, staff writer for the L.A. Times, about the latest news, events, and developments in the Inland Empire.
The Future Of The Middle East
Larry Mantle speaks with Washington Post foreign correspondent Robin Wright, author of "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East." Wright draws on firsthand interviews from the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to political prisoners and street protestors to examine the struggle for democracy in the Middle East, and what's on the horizon for the embattled area.
Tom Hanks, Executive Producer Of HBO's Miniseries John Adams
Larry Mantle talks with actor/producer, two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks about "John Adams," the seven-part HBO miniseries, which debuts Sunday evening, March 16. The series is based on David McCullough's Pulitzer-Prize winning biography of John Adams, one of the best-selling American historical biographies of all time and stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are the executive producers. The miniseries explores the extraordinary relationship between Adams and Abigail, his wife of 54 years and chronicles the life of John Adams, a remarkable historical figure whose fiercely independent spirit, commitment to personal liberty and reverence for the rule of law profoundly influenced the values on which our country was founded.