Leonard Back on the Air May 24!!!

Leonard Lopate is returning to the airwaves with a new radio project "Leonard Lopate at Large" . . . lively hour-long, in-depth discussions that will provide overview and context to topics usually covered in partial measures. Leonard's guests will include leading thinkers, scientists, artists, economists, farmers, historians, authors, and politicians. The new show is a collaboration between Robin Hood Radio (the smallest NPR station in the nation) in Sharon, Connecticut, and WPWL, the Pawling Public Radio FM station in Dutchess County, New York. Six producers who worked with Leonard for decades at WNYC will join him on the project. Launching May 24, 2018, the first show will feature a discussion about the ecological interactions between plants and wildlife and the importance of sustaining native plants. The guests will be Douglas W. Tallamy, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware (author of “Bringing Nature Home”) and Peter Muroski, owner of Native Landscapes in Pawling, New York. On May 31, the topic will be the complex and often troubled history of the Environmental Protection Agency, with guests Robert Hargrove, former director of the agency’s National Environmental Protection Compliance Division, and John Vetter, an archaeologist who serves as a contractor for the EPA’s national historic preservation program. "Leonard Lopate at Large" will be broadcast live on WPWL 103.7 FM on Thursday afternoons from 4:30 to 5:30 PM and on the Robin Hood Radio network (AM 1020 WHDD FM 91.9, WBSL-FM 91.7, WLHV-FM 88.1 and soon on 97.5 FM) Tuesday afternoons from 12:00 to 1:00 PM and Saturday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. (Listen to Pawling Public Radio at http://tun.in/se1QB and listen to WHDD FM at http://tun.in/seBza ) "Leonard Lopate at Large" is available as a podcast at Robin Hood Radio’s ON DEMAND page at https://robinhoodradioondemand.com A Facebook page is coming soon. Happy listening, and consider thanking WPWL and Robin Hood Radio by contributing to one or both.