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Commonwealth Club Radio Program
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.

Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, “Miracle on the Hudson” Pilot; Author, Highest Duty
Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger

Bay Area Pilot; Author, Highest Duty

In conversation KGO TV’s Dan Ashley

Sullenberger had less than three minutes to plan and execute the water landing hailed around the world as “the miracle on the Hudson” last winter. In a talk about work, priorities and challenges, Sully reveals how he’d spent his entire life preparing for those minutes in the cockpit of US Airways Flight 1549, when his actions would mean life or death.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
Greg Mortenson, Co-founder, Central Asia Institute; Co-author, Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson

Co-founder, Central Asia Institute; Co-author, Three Cups of Tea; Author, Stones in Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003 and shares his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy. He discusses his relentless and ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan, his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after the horrific 2005 earthquake, and how he has managed to stay alive among feuding Afghan warlords and an eight-day abduction by the Taliban. The recipient of The Star of Pakistan, the country’s highest civil award, Mortenson also provides a candid look at the current social and political situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club's Silicon Valley branch in San Jose
A.J. Jacobs: My Life As an Experiment
My Life As an Experiment: A Year of Living Biblically and More

A.J. Jacobs, Author, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life As an Experiment; Editor at Large, Esquire
David Ewing Duncan, Chief Correspondent, NPR’s "Biotech Nation"; Author, Experimental Man: What One Man’s Body Reveals About His Future- Moderator

An acclaimed journalist and a best-selling author, Jacobs takes journalistic commitment to a whole new level. His experimental and "experiential" undertakings have led him from conquering all 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica to outsourcing his entire life to India (yes, even his children’s bedtime stories). In the 2007 best-seller,

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 16, 2009
Andre Agassi, Professional Tennis Champion; Author, Open: An Autobiography
Andre Agassi

Professional Tennis Champion; Author, Open: An Autobiography

In conversation with Barry MacKay, Tennis Promoter and Broadcaster

During his exhilarating, epic 21-year professional career, Agassi captured eight Grand Slam championships and is the only man to win a career “Golden Slam” – adding an Olympic gold medal to his four Grand Slams. His new book reflects candidly on his life on and off the court, from pivotal matches with rivals Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer to his personal relationships with Brooke Shields and wife Stefanie Graf, and his role as an education advocate and philanthropist. As the founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, he has raised more than $85 million for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, an acclaimed K-12 charter school for underprivileged children in his hometown, Las Vegas.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club's San Jose office on November 20, 2009
Panel: The Millennial Changemakers
The Millennial Changemakers

Erica Fernandez, Stanford student; Grassroots Organizer Opposing Liquefied Gas and Pesticide Spraying in S. CA
Rachel Barge, Director and Founder, Campus InPower
Alec Loorz, Founder, Kids vs. Global Warming
May Boeve, Co-coordinator, 350.org

The Millennials and Generation Y are perhaps the most eco-savvy generations in U.S. history. Born between 1978 and 2000, 95 million youth are inheriting an ecosystem on the brink. The climate crisis is a key issue for them and has birthed a new branch of environmentalism – diverse in its leadership, global in scope, and youth-driven.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, on November 23, 2009.
Adam Gazzaley: Distraction and Multitasking in the Modern Media World
Distraction and Multitasking in the Modern Media World

Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center, UCSF

Our brains, despite extraordinary complexity and remarkable capabilities, have distinct limitations – we misplace car keys, we confuse names, we forget phone numbers.

This Program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on December 2, 2009.
Jonathan Zittrain: Minds for Sale
Minds for Sale

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard University; Author, The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It

In conversation with Amanda Congdon, Co-president, Oxmour Entertainment; Co-owner, Rocketboom; Independent Videoblogger, Starring Amanda Congdon

Imagine a future in which passengers on a subway stare into screens for a few minutes – and earn as much money in that time as their respective skills and stations allow. New projects like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and LiveOps are making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on November 18th, 2009.
Haleh Esfandiari: Iran – My Prison, My Home
Iran: My Prison, My Home

Haleh Esfandiari, Founder and Director, Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program; Author, My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran

Renowned Iranian journalist and scholar Esfandiari was forced to leave the country and settled in the U.S. during the 1979 revolution. Over the years, she returned to visit family members, but during a 2006 visit she was told by officials that she was under investigation and could not leave the country. She later discovered that the Intelligence Ministry believed her scholarly work at the Woodrow Wilson Center was a cover by the U.S. government to overthrow the Iranian regime. What ensued was a Kafkaesque journey through the paranoid and repressive Iranian bureaucracy that left Esfandiari a prisoner for eight months.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on October 28, 2009.
Panel: The Future of Books
The Future of Books

Kevin Hunsanger, Co-owner, Green Apple Books
Jared Friedman, Co-founder, Scribd
Brewster Kahle, Director and Co-founder, Archive.org
Dan Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Books
Pamela Samuelson, Distinguished Professor, Law and Information, UC Berkeley
David Hellman, Associate Librarian, San Francisco State University – Moderator

Will the printed word become obsolete? Access to information is constantly changing, and the popularity of e-books and online material is on the rise. To survive, publishing companies are trying to adapt to new forms of written media.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on November 16, 2009.
John Nieters: Traditional Chinese Medicine Today
Old Solutions for New Problems: The Relevance of Traditional Chinese Medicine Today

John Nieters, Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine; Certified in Integrated Diabetes Care, Xin Hua Hospital

As the oldest professional integrated medicine in the world, traditional Chinese medicine has been recognized by the World Health Organization as the number-one treatment for stroke rec

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