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11/25/09: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger\'s

Tim Page was 45-years-old when he was diagnosed with Asperger\'s syndrome - a high functioning autistic disorder. For Page, who just three years earlier had won the Pulitzer Prize as the Classical Music Critic for "The Washington Post," the diagnosis was a chance to take another look at his complicated childhood and his creative development. He\'s now written a book about his life with Asperger\'s and joins Doug to talk about how it actually contributed to his success.

11/24/09: Who Is Glenn Beck?

This past summer, Fox News\' Glenn Beck was boycotted by major advertisers after the conservative talk show host called President Obama a "racist." But despite losing accounts from players like Walmart and GEICO - his ratings have been skyrocketing and he\'s treated like something of a rock star at lectures and book signings across the country. But who is Glenn Beck? Tuesday, we\'ll look at Beck\'s ascendancy from crazed radio shock jock to a Mormon conservative at the top of the talk show game.

11/23/09: Keynes - The Return of the Master

Today on RadioWest we\'re reconsidering the ideas of the economist John Maynard Keynes. Our guest is Keynes\' preeminent biographer the British scholar Robert Skidelsky. Skidelsky says that Keynes has never been more relevant. He says the current crisis has brought to a head ideas that Keynes thought about all the time: how we explain human behavior and the role of moral judgments in economics. Here\'s Keynes in nutshell - inescapable uncertainty about the future. (Rebroadcast)

11/20/09: Waiting for Hockney

For 10 years the aspiring artist Billy Pappas worked on one life-sized portrait. He had set out to reinvent realism - to invent a new art form. Doug talks to filmmaker Julie Checkoway about her new documentary "Waiting for Hockney." Checkoway followed Pappas through what some might call his compulsive, eccentric process - and on his quest to meet the one person he felt could validate his work. (Rebroadcast)

11/19/09: Stephen Fry in America

The British comedian Stephen Fry has always loved America. It began to figure largely in his imagination when he learned a shocking secret from his mother: he was almost born in New Jersey. His curiosity about the country led him on a journey through all 50 states, talking to people and experiencing the music, the food and the landscape that make it unique. In this prerecorded interview, Fry shares with Doug the experience of America through the eyes of an Englishman.