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Roben Farzad
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Apr 5, 2020 • 59min
World v. Pandemic
Morgan Till, PBS NewsHour's senior foreign affairs producer, on the many international crises emanating from the pandemic. We discussed crude oil's collapse and OPEC; China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Venezuela; refugees at high risk in sub-Saharan Africa; creeping authoritarianism.

Apr 3, 2020 • 59min
A Truly International Pandemic
Morgan Till, PBS NewsHour's senior foreign affairs producer, on the many international crises emanating from the pandemic. We discussed crude oil's collapse and OPEC; China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Venezuela; refugees at high risk in sub-Saharan Africa; creeping authoritarianism.

Mar 29, 2020 • 59min
Delivery, Drive-Thru or Bust
How restaurants -- big, small, fast, casual, fine, "ghost kitchens" -- are scrambling to reinvent in the Pandemic of 2020. Our guest is Adam Chandler, the former Atlantic writer who authored the book Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom.

Mar 29, 2020 • 59min
Delivery, Drive-Thru or Bust
How restaurants -- big, small, fast, casual, fine, ghost, trucks -- are scrambling to reinvent in the Pandemic of 2020. Our guest is Adam Chandler, the former Atlantic writer who authored Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom.

Mar 20, 2020 • 59min
Work Forces
Brand Federation's Kelly O'Keefe and Matt Williams on the rise of the "Independence Economy" from the embers of the Great Recession -- and how a far more flexible workforce will evolve from the unprecedented pandemic of 2020.

Mar 13, 2020 • 59min
The Panic of 2020
Dalal Salomon and John Harper of Salomon & Ludwin -- a top-ranked financial advisory founded during the Great Recession -- on their approach to the unprecedented dual health-and-financial crisis of the coronavirus pandemic.

Mar 6, 2020 • 59min
Markets Meet the Coronavirus
Reuters Money editor Lauren Young on how the coronavirus outbreak is coursing through the global economy and markets.

Feb 28, 2020 • 59min
From Big Tobacco to Big Nicotine
UVA history professor Sarah Milov (The Cigarette: A Political History) and pediatrician Dr. Danny Avula, director of Richmond's health department, on the public-health and policy implications of Big Tobacco's pivot to vaping, heat-not-burn and other newfangled nicotine-delivery devices.

Feb 13, 2020 • 59min
A Figure of Hope
Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton has been fighting the odds ever since he was adopted as a newborn. Now in his 60s, he has fought cancer and dedicated his life to helping others struggling with illness and loss. As an author. Businessman. Advocate. Philanthropist.

Feb 7, 2020 • 59min
The Battle of Navy Hill
VPM city hall reporter Roberto Roldan and Richmond For All's Chelsea Higgs Wise on how an ambitious public-private plan to replace Richmond's decrepit Coliseum both divided and united the city.


