Texas Monthly Talks

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Texas Monthly Talks is a thirty-minute interview show on public television networks across the state of Texas hosted by Texas Monthly editor in chief Evan Smith. Produced by Dateline NBC veteran Lynn Boswell, the show aims to provide more context to contemporary life in Texas. The show originates from KLRU-TV, the PBS station serving Austin and Central Texas.

The show premiered in February 2003 and is about to begin its sixth season. Smith regularly interviews people who are important in Austin and Texas, such as Bill Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin, mayors Bill White of Houston and Tom Leppert of Dallas, and Governor Rick Perry. However, his guests also include notables in national politics, such as presidential candidates Howard Dean, John Kerry, Bill Bradley, John McCain, Joe Biden, Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson, and John Edwards; business, such as Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey; the media, such as New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich and newscasters Jim Lehrer, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Tom Brokaw; and entertainment, such as directors Francis Ford Coppola, John Sayles, and David Lynch, singers Ted Nugent and Billy Gibbons, novelist Salman Rushdie, and actresses Lauren Bacall and Debra Winger.


Contents

[edit] Guests by season

[edit] Season six

[edit] Season five

[edit] Season four

[edit] Season three

[edit] Season two

[edit] Season one


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