Public Radio's most acclaimed voices,
LIVE in Des Moines!

Join Iowa Public Radio for four evenings of insights and stories from public radio icons Ken Rudin, Bob Garfield, Lynne Rosetto Kasper and Krista Tippett ... LIVE!

• November 7, 2011:   Ken Rudin
• February 20, 2012: Bob Garfield
• March 5, 2012: ......Lynne Rossetto Kasper
• April 17, 2012: ......Krista Tippett

All presentations will be at the Principal Financial Group Auditorium
711 High Street
Des Moines, Iowa

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Parking is available on the street (free after 6 p.m.) or in the public parking garage located at 7th Street and Grand Avenue in downtown Des Moines (the entrance is on 7th Street between High Street and Grand Avenue). 

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Seating Map

Coming Up

Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Host, APM's The Splendid Table

Monday, March 5, 2012
6:00 p.m.: VIP Reception 
7:00 p.m.: Live Presentation
9:00 p.m.: Book Signing  

Lynne Rossetto Kasper has won numerous awards as host of American Public Media's The Splendid Table, including two James Beard Foundation Awards for Best National Radio Show on Food, four Clarion Awards from Women in Communication and a Gracie Allen Award for Best Syndicated Talk Show.

Lynne is a respected authority on food, having published three bestselling books: The Splendid Table, The Italian Country Table, and The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper, which was co-authored with show producer Sally Swift in 2008.

The Splendid Table began as a live, Saturday-morning call-in show on Minnesota Public Radio. As the program's popularity continued to stretch across the nation, The Splendid Table eventually became the pre-recorded program that now airs on more than 290 public radio stations in the United States, plus SIRIUS satellite radio and World Radio Switzerland.

The Splendid Table has been at the forefront of food issues and policies since its inception. Long before eating local became a catchphrase and farmers' markets became ubiquitous, the show was talking about the changes needed in the food system and what was happening on the grassroots level. In fact, when The Splendid Table first went on the air, Lynne had to make sure to define such terms as "organic" and "sustainable" for listeners. Today those terms have become part of the everyday lexicon, and people's hunger for wholesome food and the rituals surrounding it has only increased.

Rossetto Kasper will bring her characteristic charm and passion for everything related to food to this evening, guaranteed to please your audible palate! She will also discuss her latest book, The Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends, which comes out in September 2011.

Krista Tippett
Host, APM's Being

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
7:00 p.m.: Live Presentation
9:00 p.m.: VIP Reception 

Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. As the creator and host of public radio’sBeing (formerly Speaking of Faith), she takes up the great animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live? Krista and her guests reach beyond the headlines to explore meaning, faith, and ethics amidst the political, economic, cultural, and technological shifts that define 21st century life. The program and podcast is heard on over 240 public radio stations across the U.S.

Krista was a diplomat in Cold War Berlin and holds a masters of divinity from Yale University. Her books include Einstein's God - Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit, which draws on her interviews across the years with scientists.

Krista will be discussing issues of faith and spirituality in today's world.

Previous Presentations

Ken Rudin
NPR's Political Junkie

Monday, November 7, 2011
6:00 p.m.: VIP Reception 
7:00 p.m.: Live Presentation

Ken Rudin is NPR's Political Junkie. For most of the past 20 years, Rudin has been the eyes and ears of political coverage as political editor. Rudin focuses on all aspects of politics, from presidential elections with the primaries, national conventions, debates and general election, to the races for the House, Senate and state governors. He has analyzed every congressional race in the nation since 1984.

Rudin continues to contribute NPR's political coverage. Every Wednesday, he can be heard on Talk of the Nation in the "Political Junkie" segment. In the "It's All Politics" blog on NPR.org, Rudin delves into campaign history, strategy and trivia, including the popular ScuttleButton contest.

Rudin was a key player on the NPR team that won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2002 for coverage of campaign finance. A political junkie for many decades, Rudin has one of the most extensive collections of campaign buttons in the country, a collection that now surpasses 70,000 items.

Rudin will arrive in Iowa just in time for the fall elections and offer his insight about the current political landscape.

Bob Garfield

Author & Host, NPR's On the Media

Monday, February 20, 2012
6:00 p.m.: VIP Reception 
7:00 p.m.: Live Presentation
9:00 p.m.: Book Signing 

Bob Garfield is the host of NPR's On the Media, a weekly show that explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media, because it's through that lens that we literally see the world and the world sees us.

In his non-radio life, Bob for 26 years has worked for Advertising Age. Bob is a founding contributor to the Watchdog Blog of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He’s been a contributing editor for the Washington Post Magazine, Civilization and the op-ed page of USA Today. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, The Guardian, Sports Illustrated and Wired and been employed variously by ABC, CBS, CNBC and the defunct FNN as an on-air analyst. As a lecturer and panelist, he has appeared in 30 countries on five continents, including such venues as the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Capitol, the Rainbow Room, the Smithsonian, Circus Circus casino, the Grand Ole Opry, the U.N. and, memorably, the Westward Ho! motel in Grand Forks, N.D.

He is now writing his fifth book, The Human Element. His first book, Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner in 1997, favorably reviewed and quickly forgotten. His 2003 manifesto on advertising, And Now a Few Words From Me, is published in six languages (although, admittedly, one is Bulgarian). His 2009 crackpot screed The Chaos Scenario, about the supposed collapse of mass media and advertising, has all come true. Garfield co-wrote “Tag, You’re It,” a snappy country song performed by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the short-lived NBC sitcom “Sweet Surrender.” 

Garfield will discuss the collapse of all traditional media, including much of public radio. He will also be signing his newest book on this topic, The Chaos Scenario, after the show. 

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