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6 upcoming author events and readings from GBH, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All plays in Greater Boston →

Production art for The Crises of Liberal Democracy and the Response of Theopolitical Visions

Tue Oct 20 · 6:00pm

The Crises of Liberal Democracy and the Response of Theopolitical Visions

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D. Stephen Long, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University, gives a Lowell Lecture for Boston University School of Theology asking whether liberalism caused today's democratic crises or failed to prevent them, and whether a postliberal, theopolitical vision is a hope or a danger for people of faith. Long has published twenty books, including Divine Economy: Theology and the Market.

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Production art for Stories from the Stage: Close Encounters

Thu Oct 29 · 6:30pm

Stories from the Stage: Close Encounters

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An evening of true stories told live, recorded at GBH's Calderwood Studio for the series Stories from the Stage. The theme is the brief meeting that stays with a person for years afterwards. Tellers are selected and directed rather than drawn from the floor, and the audience is part of the recording.

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Production art for Beyond the Page: Lucy Foley's "Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel"

Wed Nov 4 · 7:00pm

Beyond the Page: Lucy Foley's "Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel"

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Lucy Foley discusses Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, a new Miss Marple novel written with the Christie estate's blessing, which sends Christie's detective abroad. Foley wrote The Guest List and The Midnight Feast and has topped the New York Times list. GBH records the conversation in front of an audience at its Brighton studios.

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Production art for Second Annual Ralph Lowell Lecture featuring Marty Baron

Thu Nov 12 · 7:00pm

Second Annual Ralph Lowell Lecture featuring Marty Baron

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Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post for more than eight years and earlier editor of The Boston Globe, gives GBH's second annual Ralph Lowell Lecture, “The President's Forever War Against the First Amendment,” on White House limits on press access, AI-driven disinformation and changing news habits. Newsrooms under his leadership won 18 Pulitzer Prizes; the Post won 11 during his tenure.

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Thu Nov 19 · 6:30pm

Stories from the Stage: A Good Laugh

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GBH WORLD records another Stories from the Stage evening at its Brighton studio, this one on the occasions when laughter is the only reasonable response left. The tellers are ordinary people whose stories have been selected and shaped for the broadcast rather than stand-up comedians working material.

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Production art for Stories from the Stage: Holiday Heroes

Thu Dec 10 · 6:30pm

Stories from the Stage: Holiday Heroes

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The December edition of Stories from the Stage takes the holidays that go wrong and the people who turn up anyway. GBH WORLD records the series before a studio audience at Calderwood Studio; the tellers are members of the public whose stories have been selected and directed for broadcast.

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