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HOST: Terrence McNally

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DESCRIPTION: in-depth interviews with individuals who hold pieces of the puzzle of a world that just might work. We look at new, innovative and provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture ? all based on the fact that I believe we can do better and I want to find out how.

The interviews often appear in print at www.AlterNet.org.

My session with Norman Lear streams at http://www.learcenter.org/ html/about/?cm=/press_2000.

Scroll the list chronologically in reverse to May 4, 2000, Norman Lear.

BIO:

TERRENCE McNALLY hosts the radio show Free Forum (KPFK 90.7fm, Los Angeles, streaming at kpfk.org), in-depth conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of ?a world that just might work,? provocative approaches to business, health, science, environment, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Ken Burns, Kevin Phillips, Deborah Tannen, Eric Schlosser, Bill Joy, Robert Reich, Andrew Weil, Arianna Huffington, Paul Hawken, Jeremy Rifkin, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Catherine Crier, Scott Turow, Paul Krugman, Bill Maher, and Norman Lear. His interviews appear in print at AlterNet.org.

He works as a consultant, speaker, writer, and coach for corporations, public agencies, and non-profit organizations. His organizational work encourages and focuses communication, creativity, and cooperation; resolves conflicts; clarifies and aligns vision, mission and objectives; and develops plans for effective action. Clients range from the Environmental Protection Agency, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Natural Resources Defense Council, to Business for Social Responsibility, Rhino Records, and Interface Flooring.

As a facilitator, Terrence models and promotes respect and productive listening. In resolving conflicts he looks for shared values and goals, where ?opponents? can be seen to be on the same side -- the side of the project, the organization, or the larger mission. His work with individuals focuses on their defining and effectively delivering their message in person or in writing, live or through the media. He is in demand to present the Natural Step's scientific management framework for sustainable development, and to speak about issues of strategic communication, whether within internal teams or to the national media.

A Harvard graduate, where he won its highest academic award, McNally's address to the 20th Reunion of the class of 1969 was featured on CBS 'Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt'. He has also worked as a writer, producer, and director of documentaries ("Buckminster Fuller - World Man, World Game", BBC's 1992 Earth Summit special "Greenbucks?.) In 1985, he co-wrote and produced Julie Brown's "Goddess In Progress", voted #4 mini-album of the year in the Village Voice National Music Critics Poll. Having acted in over a hundred films and television shows, McNally co-wrote and co-produced the musical comedy feature "Earth Girls Are Easy". Called by Time Magazine "the freshest thing to come out of the space program since Tang?, it is now being developed as a Broadway musical.

Co-author with Hyla Cass MD of Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia , Terrence is an annual participant at the Conference on World Affairs, a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences, and has served on the boards of Earth Communications Office, Show Coalition, and Education 1st.

TERRENCE McNALLY is a media host and speaker, consultant, writer, and coach for public agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporations, focusing on the mastery of message and media and the power of compelling stories.


McNally hosts FREE FORUM in Los Angeles (kpfk, 90.7fm) and on the web (www.kpfk.org) featuring “a world that just might work.” His show, UP NEXT (satellite/LinkTV), features in depth interviews with big thinkers like Jeremy Rifkin and Jared Diamond. His work appears in print at AlterNet.org.


Having worked as an actor, writer, producer, and director, McNally's film "Earth Girls Are Easy" with Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum and Jim Carrey is being developed as a Broadway musical. A graduate of Harvard, where he won its highest academic award, he's co-author with Hyla Cass MD of Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia, and is at work on a book which asserts that health -- for an individual or a society – calls for dealing with systems instead of symptoms and focusing on root causes and upstream solutions.
Endorsements:
Greg Palast, BBC, author, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
...the kind of info-heavy ear-grabbing program missing in action on US airwaves.

Norman Lear, writer, producer, public citizen
... McNally asks the surprising questions.
 
Warren Bennis, author, authority on leadership and change
...World-class interviewer, a master, capable of bringing out your best.

Deborah Tannen, author, You Just Don't Understand
...With incisive questions aimed not only at the book's contents but also at my personal life story, he managed to get me to say things I'd never said before

Robert Wright, author, The Moral Animal; Non-Zero
,Terrence McNally consistently goes for the long ball. He's interested in the biggest questions, and he probes deeply into the minds and lives of the people who are tackling them.

Tom Hayden, activist, legislator, author, Street Wars
,Terrence's deep understanding of issues is rare in our fast-paced, chattering media environment.

Daniel Goleman, author, Emotional Intelligence
... offers grounds for hope, rays of light, and a damn fine hour of radio.

Mark Hertsgaard, author, The Eagle's Shadow; On Bended Knee
...Curious, enthusiastic, charismatic, he welcomes unconventional perspectives and isn't afraid to laugh at himself. Above all, he knows how to listen, so his audience is happy to do the same.

Brian Swimme, cosmologist, author, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos
,In a McNally interview you feel as if you're rafting through whitewater. Sudden turns, explosions of humor, that wonderful feeling of spinning out of control as the insights keep popping,sometimes drenched, other times basking in the sunlight.

Paul Krassner, author, commentator, editor, The Realist
, he skillfully serves as a lightning rod for roasting sacred cowboys.

The interviews often appear in print at www.AlterNet.org.
All can be found at:
http://www.alternet.org/authors/5358


Separately at:
Howard Zinn: http://www.alternet.org/story/26869/
Bioneers- http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/26659
Wal-mart: http://www.alternet.org/story/25375/
Teacher of the year: http://www.alternet.org/story/24976/
Jared Diamond: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/23413/
Al Franken: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21239/ 
Cornel West: http://www.alternet.org/story/20017/
Arundhati Roy: http://www.alternet.org/story/19936/
Thomas Frank: http://alternet.org/election04/19611/
Irshad Manji: http://www.alternet.org/story/21705/
Iraq vets – http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/31053/
Doris Kearns Goodwin: http://www.alternet.org/story/28782/
George McGovern: http://www.alternet.org/story/28472/
Mark Crispin Miller/Election 04 – http://www.alternet.org/story/31217/
Lester Brown/Plan B for Planet – http://www.alternet.org/story/31679/

FREE FORUM INTERVIEW GUESTS

02/07/06: Chris Mooney, THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE
01/31/06: Richard Saul Wurman, Conferences: TED (1984-2002), eg2006
01/30/06: Reza Aslan, NO GOD BUT GOD
01/24/06: Susan Lerner, California Clean Money Campaign
01/17/06 Lester Brown, PLAN B 2.0
01/11/06 AFTER INNOCENCE, prisoners exonerated by DNA
01/03/06 Mark Crispin Miller, FOOLED AGAIN, theft of 2004 election
12/28/05 Gerald Celente, Look Back at 2005, ahead to 2006
12/27/05 Robert Greenwald, WAL-MART: HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE
12/20/05 Davidson Loehr, AMERICA, FASCISM AND GOD
12/13/05 Doris Kearns Goodwin, TEAM OF RIVALS: , ABRAHAM LINCOLN
11/29/05 Robert Scheer, Truthdig.com
11/22/05 Iraq Vets: Sean Huze, Paul Rieckhoff, Jimmy Massey
11/15/05 George McGovern, Senator; Presidential candidate, 1972
11/01/05 Betsey Chasse, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?
10/05/05 Howard Zinn, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
09/27/05 Nina Simons, Ken Ausubel, founder-directors, BIONEERS
09/20/05 Barbara Ehrenreich. NICKEL & DIMED; BAIT & SWITCHED
09/06/05 Steve Levitt, FREAKONOMICS
08/30/05 Rafe Esquith (Teacher of the Year), Mel Stuart, HOBART SHAKESPEARIANS
08/23/05 Voices from Camp Casey
08/09/05 Debra Bowen, CA Senate; Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace
08/02/05 Paul Jay, founding chair. Independent World Television
07/26/05 Diane Wilson, AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN
07/19/05 John Dicker, THE UNITED STATES OF WALMART
07/12/05 Richard Heinberg, Peak Oil; Patrice O'Neill, conflict resolution documentary
06/28/05 Jodie Evans, STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW; Anthony Lappe, GNN
06/21/05 Danny Goldberg, HOW THE LEFT LOST TEEN SPIRIT; Air America
06/01/05 Take Back America Live:Robert Kuttner, Gar Alperovitz, Richard Walden
05/31/05 Michael Lewis, COACH
05/24/05 Robert Verkerk, CODEX; Health Supplement Regulation
05/17/05 Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, BECOMING JUSTICE BLACKMUN
05/05/10 Marc Barasch, FIELD NOTES ON THE COMPASSIONATE LIFE
05/03/05 Bob Borosage, Take Back America
04/26/05 Jared Diamond, COLLAPSE
04/05/05 Irshad Manji, THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM TODAY
03/29/05 John Patrick Shanley, DOUBT, MOONSTRUCK*
03/22/05 Chellie Pingree, President, Common Cause*
03/01/05 Jon Kabat-Zinn, COMING TO OUR SENSES; WHEREVER YOU GO,
THERE YOU ARE
02/22/05 Jim Wallis, Sojourners, GOD'S POLITICS*
02/01/05 Al Franken, Air America radio/LIES AND THE LYING LIARS ,*
01/25/05 Dahr Jamail, Unembedded in Baghdad*
01/18/05 Ken Burns, UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS;
Hyla Cass MD, 8 WEEKS TO VIBRANT HEALTH*
01/11/05 Noreena Hertz, THE DEBT THREAT*
12/28/04 Gerald Celente, Top Trends 2005 *
12/21/04 Van Jones, Pro-Democracy movement forward
12/14/04 Harold Evans, THEY MADE AMERICA; US media crisis
12/07/04 David O. Russell, director, THREE KINGS, I HEART HUCKABEES*
11/30/04 Adam Werbach, former pres Sierra Club, 3November Theses*
11/23/04 Marcia Angell, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DRUG COMOPANIES*
11/09/04 Jeremy Rifkin, (rec 8/23/04)THE EUROPEAN DREAM
10/26/04 Robert Jay Lifton, AGE OF ANXIETY*
10/05/04 Paul Loeb, SOUL OF A CITIZEN; IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A WHILE ((8/27/04)*
09/28/04 George Lakoff, DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT*
09/21/04 Cornel West, DEMOCRACY MATTERS*
09/14/04 Anita Roddick, The Body Shop; TROUBLED WATERS*
09/07/04 Arundhati Roy, GOD OF SMALL THINGS; WAR TALK *
08/24/04 Robert Greenwald, OUFOXED; UNCOVERED *
08/17/04 Allegra Fuller Snyder re late Buckminster Fuller, CRITICAL PATH *
08/10/04 Thomas Frank, WHAT'S WRONG W/ KANSAS? *
08/03/04 Jonathan Schell, THE FATE OF THE EARTH; A HOLE IN THE WORLD *
07/20/04 Greg Behrman, THE INVISIBLE PEOPLE (Global AIDS crisis) *
07/06/04 Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman, Co-directors, PBS doc, THIRST *
06/29/04  Tom Hayden, STREET WARS: GANGS & THE FUTURE OF VIOLENCE *
06/08/04  Mark Vicente, co-director, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? *
05/25/04 Ken Ausubel, Bioneers Conference; ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE *
05/04/04 Greg Palast, Expanded Election Edition, BEST DEMOCRACY $$ CAN BUY *
04/27/04 Michael Lewis, LIAR'S POKER; MONEYBALL *
04/20/04 Joan Blades, co-founder, MoveOn.org *
04/06/04 David Bornstein, social entrepreneurs, HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD *
03/30/04  Joe Romm, THE HYPE ABOUT HYDROGEN *
03/23/04 Alexander Sanger, Planned Parenthood, BEYOND CHOICE *
03/09/04 Stanley Greenberg, pollster, THE TWO AMERICAS *
03/02/04 Hazel Henderson, BEYOND GLOBALIZATION *
02/03/04 Henry Louis Gates, AMERICA BEHIND THE COLOR LINE *
01/27/04 Robert & Christopher Scheer, 5 LIES BUSH TOLD ABOUT IRAQ *
01/20/04 Chuck Lewis, THE BUYING OF THE PRESIDENT *
01/13/04 Elliot Washor, Jessica Rishe, Big Picture schools *
01/06/04  Andre Carothers, Chris Desser, Gary Cohen,  Rockwood Leadership *
12/30/03  Garry Wills, WHY I AM A CATHOLIC *
12/23/03  Leonard Shlain, SEX, TIME, POWER (rec 9/12/03) *
12/16/03 Elaine Pagels, BEYOND BELIEF *
11/25/03  Ivo Daalder, AMERICA UNBOUND: Bush Foreign Policy (rec 11/5)*
11/18/03 Rosemary Gibson, WALL OF SILENCE: Medical Errors (rec 9/4/03)*
11/11/03 Scott Turow, ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT (rec 10/16/03) *
11/04/03 Garry Wills, THE NEGRO PRESIDENT; etc. (rec 11/03/03)*
10/21/03 David Maraniss, THEY MARCHED INTO THE SUNLIGHT *
10/14/03 Will Hutton, A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE *
10/07/03 Paul Krugman, NY Times op ed, THE GREAT UNRAVELING *
09/23/03 Lester Brown, founder, Worldwatch; ECO-ECONOMY; PLAN B*
09/16/03  Lynne Twist, THE SOUL OF MONEY
09/02/03 Leonard Shlain, ALPHABET VS GODDESS (rec 10/22/02)*
08/12/03 John Emshwiller, 24 DAYS: Enron *
07/29/03 Robin Wright, LA Times/Washinton Post
07/22/03 Jodie Evans, CODE PINK, Back from Baghdad *
07/15/03 Mark Danner, Media and Neo-cons *
07/10/03 Andy Weil MD, Integrative Medicine
06/26/03 Robert Fuller, SOMEBODIES & NOBODIES: Rankism
06/12/03 Matt Ridley, NATURE VIA NURTURE
05/15/03 Richard Heinberg, THE PARTY'S OVER: END of OIL
05/01/03 Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange, CODE PINK
04/03/03 Arianna Huffington, PIGS AT THE TROUGH
03/06/03 Greg Palast/BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY( 1/2);
Catherine Ingram/Dharma Dialogues *
02/06/03 Julia Butterfly Hill, Spirit and Activism *
02/06/03 Bill Maher, POLITICALLY INCORRECT *
01/09/03 Peter Phillips, Project Censored
12/26/02 Nina Wise/Creative Spontaneous Life (rec 9/20/02)
11/26/02 Deborah Tannen/YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND (rec 6/27/02)
11/14/02 Mark Hertsgaard/EAGLE'S SHADOW (rec 11/8/02)
10/17/02 Jeremy Rifkin, THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY
10/03/02 Noreenas Hertz, THE SILENT TAKEOVER (rec 6/26/02)
09/05/02 Dan Mazmanian, Sustainable Cities
08/08/02 Sharon Salzberg, FAITH
07/25/02 William Greider, ONE WORLD READY OF NOT
06/13/02 Kevin Phillips, WEALTH & DEMOCRACY
05/30/02 Cheryl Richardson, STAND UP FOR YOUR LIFE
05/02/02 Greg Palast, THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY
04/18/02 Terrance Sweeney, A CHURCH DIVIDED
03/21/02  Wade Davis, LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
03/07/02 William McDonough, CRADLE TO CRADLE
02/07/02 Noam Chomsky, UNDERSTANDING POWER and 9/11
01/10/02 Thomas Homer-Dixon, THE INGENUITY GAP
12/13/01 Ted Halstead & Michael Lind, New America Foundation, RADICAL CENTER
11/29/01 Mark Juergensmeyer, TERROR IN THE MIND OF GOD: Religious Violence
11/15/01  Richard Kelly, writer/director, DONNIE DARKO *
11/15/01 Tahmeena Faryal, RAWA: Revolutionary Assn Women of Afghanistan * 10/18/01 Marshall Rosenberg, NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
08/23/01 Keith Hart, MONEY IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD
08/09/01 Charlene Spretnak, THE RESURGENCE OF THE REAL
07/26/01 Eric Schlosser, FAST FOOD NATION
07/12/01 Robert Wright, MORAL ANIMAL; NON-ZERO: LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY
06/28/01 Dan Mapes, artificial intelligence, VR & consciousness
06/14/01 Robert Reich, THE FUTURE OF SUCCESS
05/31/01 Sarah Van Gelder. YES magazine; Positive Futures Network
04/19/01 John Stauber, TRUST US, WE'RE EXPERTS
04/05/01 Howard Brody, PLACEBO RESPONSE
03/22/01 Mathis Wackernagel, Ecological Footprint
02/22/01 Tara Bennet-Goleman, EMOTIONAL ALCHEMY,
              Dan Goleman, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
01/25/01 Ken Pelletier, THE BEST ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
01/11/01 Bruce Blair, Ctr for Defense Information, Back from the Brink
12/14/00 Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson, THE CULTURAL CREATIVES
11/30/00 William Duiker, HO CHI MINH: A LIFE
11/02/00 Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange; Seattle a year later
09/21/00 Peter Ackerman, Steve York A FORCE MORE POWERFUL: non-violence
09/07/00 Bill Joy, The Future May Not Need Us
08/24/00 Gary Schwartz, LIVING ENERGY UNIVERSE
08/10/00  Randy Hayes, Rainforest Action Network
07/13/00 Walter Russell Mead, new financial architecture of devt
06/29/00 Paulina Borsook, Libertarian Culture Of High Tech
06/15/00 Alan Atkisson, BELIEVING CASSANDRA, sustainability
06/01/00 Meg Wheatley, LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW SCIENCE
05/04/00 Norman Lear
04/20/00 Edgar Cahn, TIME DOLLARS
04/06/00 Mike Kazin, AMERICAN DIVIDED: CIVIL WAR OF ‘60's
03/23/00 Brian Swimme, cosmology and life on earth
01/13/00 Herman Daly, BEYOND GROWTH
12/16/99 Martin Khor, President, Third World Network
12/02/99 Dee Hock, founder, Founder, Visa, BIRTH OF CHAORDIC AGE
11/18/99 Kevin Bales, author, DISPOSABLE PEOPLE:
SLAVERY IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
11/04/99 Richard Heinberg, CLONING THE BUDDHA: MORAL IMPACT OF BIOTECH
09/23/99 Gina Solomon, MD, GENERATIONS AT RISK
09/09/99 Duane Elgin, VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY
08/26/99 Elisabet Sahtouris, BIOLOGY REVISIONED
07/29/99 Ted Halstead/"Politics For Generation X"; New America Foundation
07/15/99 James Thornton, FIELD GUIDE TO THE SOUL
07/01/99 Sam Keen, FACES OF THE ENEMY, FIRE IN THE BELLY
06/17/99 Theodore Roszak, AMERICA THE WISE
05/20/99 Cliff Feigenbaum, Hal Brill, INVESTING w/ YOUR VALUES
05/06/99 David Korten, POST-CORPORATE SOCIETY
04/22/99 Mark Hertsgaard, EARTH ODYSSEY
03/25/99 Peter Russell, Global consciousness
03/11/99  Richard Barrett, LIBERATING THE SOUL AT WORK
01/28/99 Thomas Frank, CONQUEST OF COOL; Advertising
12/03/98 Bill Drayton, Ashoka:social entrepreneurs, Get America Working
11/19/98 Betsy Taylor, New American Dream
11/05/98 Michael Lind, UP FROM CONSERVATISM
10/08/98 Warren Bennis, Philip Slater, TEMPORARY SOCIETY:
09/24/98 Hyla Cass (& McNally) KAVA: NATURE'S ANSWER TO STRESS AND INSOMNIA
08/27/98 Burton Goldberg, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
07/02/98 Mike Gray, DRUG CRAZY:
How We Got Into This Mess And How We Can Get Out
06/18/98 Janine Benyus, BIOMIMICRY INNOVATION FROM NATURE
06/04/98 Peter Schwartz, Global Business Network
04/09/98 Kalle Lasn, Ad busting, culture jamming
03/26/98 David Bollier, AIMING HIGHER -- Responsible Business
03/12/98 Mark Blumenthal, Herbal Medicine
02/26/98 Alan Durning, Culture of Consumption/The value of home
02/12/98 Sally Covington, Lessons of right wing philanthropy
01/01/98 Danny Schecter, THE MORE YOU WATCH, THE LESS YOU KNOW
12/04/97 Henry Kendall, Global Warming
11/20/97 Hazel Henderson, BUILDING A WIN-WIN WORLD
11/06/97 Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, FLOW
10/09/97 Ken Ausubel, BIONEERS *
10/09/97 Ralph Estes, TYRANNY OF BOTTOM LINE *
09/25/97 John Robbins, Health care
07/31/97 Sara Davidson, The 60's
07/17/97 Donella Meadows, BEYOND THE LIMITS TO GROWTH
07/03/97 Jon Rowe, If the economy is up, why is America down?
05/22/97 Iris de Ment, folksinger  ,
04/24/97 Paul Hawken, NATURAL CAPITALISM
02/27/97 Ken Burns, Thomas Jefferson *
01/16/97 Gil Friend, Green bottom line
08/29/96 John Picard, Environmental architecture
08/01/96 Mike Males, Scapegoating Adolescents
07/18/96 Ted Halstead, Redefining Progress
09/28/95 David Korten, WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD