"People
know what you do, but can you tell us
how you came to where you are?"
This
is the kind of question posed on Profiles.
Beyond the public image, Profiles lets
the listener get to know the person behind the persona,
the substance behind the image. NOTE: Guests with hyperlinks
are archived for listening.
April
2008 Guests
April 6 - Murray
McGibbon
Murray McGibbon is associate professor in acting and directing
at the IU Department of Theatre and Drama and one of South
Africa's leading stage directors and producers. For six
years he served as artistic director of drama for the
Playhouse Company in Durban, where he directed forty productions
and produced more than one hundred. His publications include
Theatre in the 21st Century, a journey backwards into
the future, acting editions of Hamlet and other Shakespeare
plays; and he has revised and edited a textbook on speech
training. He was awarded South Africa's highest theatrical
award, the NALEDI, six times. Moya Andrews hosts.
April 13 - Nigel North
A former faculty member of the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama in London and the Berlin Musik Hochschule
in Germany, Nigel North is currently professor of lute
at the Early Music Institute at Indiana University. As
a lutenist, he has worked with many of the world's leading
baroque ensembles and was a founding member of the ensemble
Romanesca. North has produced numerous recordings, including
the series Bach on the Lute. He is a professor of Music
at the Jacobs School of Music and the author of Continuo
Playing on the Lute, Archlute, and Theorbo. He spoke with
Scott Witzke. (repeat)
April 20 - Greg Speichert
Greg Speichert is director of Hilltop Garden and Nature
Center at Indiana University Bloomington. A nationally-recognized
expert in water plants, he has conducted research on many
species, and has developed and introduced varieties of
iris, coleus, and ornamental grasses. With his wife Sue,
he published Water Gardening Magazine and owned and operated
Crystal Palace Perennials, a plant nursery that specialized
in unusual water plants and rare and endangered perennials.
He is the author of three books, including The Encyclopedia
of Water Garden Plants, and has published a number of
articles in Fine Gardening and American Nurseryman magazines.
Your host is Moya Andrews.
April 27 - Bob Dotson
NBC News Correspondent Bob Dotson's "American Story
with Bob Dotson," is seen on the Today Show. Dotson
wrote and hosted the series Bob Dotson's America on the
Travel Channel, and he produced the documentary El Capitan's
Courageous Climbers. He is the author of two books; one
for aspiring journalists, Make it Memorable, the other
a memoir, In Pursuit of the American Dream. He has received
more than 100 awards for his work in broadcast journalism,
including four Emmys. Recently he donated his personal
archive of 6,000 original story tapes to the Oklahoma
Historical Society. He spoke with Owen Johnson.
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