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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    What’s next in impeachment?

    The two weeks of public impeachment hearings are over. We talk about what we learned, the questions raised, and what to expect next.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 22, 2019 • 49m Listen

    The two weeks of public impeachment hearings are over. We talk about what we learned, the questions raised, and what to expect next.

    In this episode

    4 stories
    1. 0:00

      After 2 weeks of impeachment hearings, what’s next?

      Diplomat David Holmes testified on Thursday that he overheard President Trump on the phone with Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the Europen Union, about investigations into the Bidens and the 2016 campaign.

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      10 min
    2. 10:00

      How prestige TV prepared us for the days-long drama of impeachment

      The last two weeks of impeachment hearings had their share of high drama and comparisons to Watergate. Phrases like “domestic political errand” are this generation’s “third-rate burglary.” “No quid pro quo” is “I am not a crook” for 2019.

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      10 min
    3. 19:47

      Neurologist Oliver Sacks explored the minds of outcasts, and was an outcast himself

      Oliver Sacks studied unusual neurological disorders, and was known for humanizing patients in his scientific methods and in his writing. He wrote about autism, deafness, color blindness, Tourette’s, and inexplicable conditions.

      Read the story
      16 min
    4. 35:42

      Tom Hanks nails it as Mr. Rogers

      Our critics review “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” based on a 1998 Esquire profile of Mr. Rogers, and it’s as much about the writer of the profile as it’s about Mr.

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      14 min
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir

      Associate producer

      News

    In this episode

    4 stories
    1. 0:0010 min

      After 2 weeks of impeachment hearings, what’s next?

    2. 10:0010 min

      How prestige TV prepared us for the days-long drama of impeachment

    3. 19:4716 min

      Neurologist Oliver Sacks explored the minds of outcasts, and was an outcast himself

    4. 35:4214 min

      Tom Hanks nails it as Mr. Rogers

    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand