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Ambassador Robert Gosende served as a diplomat in the US Foreign Service from the early 1960s to the end of the 1990s.From his childhood in Massachusetts to the highest levels of diplomacy, his life story is filled with adventures and challenges - and historic moments. His career intersected with some of the most important places, people and events in the second half of the twentieth century, including Libya just before Qaddafi, Poland during the Cold War, Somalia during Blackhawk Down, South Africa during Apartheid, and Russia during Yeltsin's rule, plus positions in Washington and terms as diplomat-in-residence at Harvard and Georgetown.To mark the 100th anniversary of the Foreign Service, Ambassador Gosende is in conversation in several episodes on The Roundtable with Jim Ketterer, regular Roundtable Panelist and Senior Fellow at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement.

Mark St. Germain’s new play, “Forgiveness,” having its World Premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taking place in Minnesota, a former convict is allowed to seek forgiveness from the Governor. They have 10 minutes to plead their case in a dramatic, pressurized process to gain acceptance back into the fold, or be stuck forever on the outskirts of society.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Senior fellow at the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College Ambassador Fred Hof, Semi-retired, Editor at large/columnist/editorial writer, Times Union Jay Jochnowitz, and Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.

From longtime “New York Times” columnist, Frank Bruni, comes the book “The Age of Grievance” which is the examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics on both the right and left.

Abortion figures to be a key issue in the fall election.In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the 2nd District, wraps up his conversation with WAMC’s Ian Pickus.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, Albany Law School professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson, and Wall Street Investment Banker Mark Wittman.

This week, the Ancram Center and New York City based theatre company The Civilians have brought a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and educator Martha Redbone and London-born pianist, composer, and producer Aaron Whitby to Ancram to advance the vision of their new piece - the working title of which is “Conversations.” The piece is based on and inspired by intimate conversations with elders who have been in Redbone’s life for decades.

The veepstakes is here.In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. This interview was recorded July 29th.

The new book “Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics” is by CNN Correspondent Elle Reeve. It is a sprawling, strange, but true journey into the weirdest depths of the internet and into the real-world rooms where extremists made their plans, celebrated their victories, and retreated after defeats. To reveal the forces behind the white nationalist march on Charlottesville and the Capital insurrection on January 6th.

This week's Book Picks come from Giovanni Boivin from The Bookloft in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.