CBS News Weekend Roundup-Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Dan Raviv is a National Correspondent for CBS News, heard regularly on the CBS Radio Network. This site is dedicated to giving the public special insight into various interviews conducted by Dan.
Here's the last minute (or so) of the CBS News Weekend Roundup of 1/20/2017 -- in which the host, Dan Raviv, announces that he is leaving CBS News after 42 years based in Boston, New York, Tel Aviv, London, Miami, and then Washington. He hosted the Weekend Roundup for 19 years.
Interviewed for the CBS News Weekend Roundup, Yale School of Management's senior associate dean for leadership studies -- Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld -- talks about how corporate CEO's are dealing with Donald Trump's combative style, on Twitter and elsewhere.
Longtime New York Times correspondent Elaine Sciolino -- a former bureau chief in Paris -- author of The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs -- speaks to Dan Raviv, host of the CBS News Weekend Roundup, about these dramatic days in French politics. They also discuss rightwing politicians throughout Europe.
Interviewed by Dan Raviv, a CBS News correspondent who himself has co-authored books about Israel, Daniel Gordis discusses his new book, "Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn." This is a 4-minute excerpt of the CBS News Weekend Roundup.
Best-selling novelist Jay McInerney tells CBS's Dan Raviv about the third novel in his series about the fictional Russell and Corinne Calloway -- "Bright, Precious Days."
In a 10-minute interview with CBS's Dan Raviv, Jay Solomon -- foreign affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal -- discusses his new book: The Iran Wars. Solomon considers where things are going, as nearly 8 years of Barack Obama's diplomacy with Iran come to a close -- while the Islamic Republic of Iran still clearly labels the United States as an enemy.
The widely praised documentary, "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice," focuses on all 18 African-American athletes who represented the U.S.A. at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, in Nazi Germany, in 1936. The story is much deeper and wider than just one hero, Jesse Owens. On the CBS News Weekend Roundup, anchor Dan Raviv interviewed the director of the documentary, Deborah Riley Draper.
Interviewed by Dan Raviv for the CBS News Weekend Roundup, award-winning director Alex Gibney discusses his new documentary -- "Zero Days" -- which examines how the U.S. and Israel together attacked Iran's nuclear program with a powerful, clever cyber-weapon. Gibney wonders if it's healthy to keep the entire cyberwarfare program so secretive. Harry Truman didn't deny the U.S. had just dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945!
On CBS News Weekend Roundup (airing June 17-19, easily found by Google or other search) ... Jerry Mitchell, the award-winning choreographer and director of "Kinky Boots" (and many other Broadway shows), reveals he plans a hip-hop musical starring 70-year-olds. And a lot more -- in this 3-minute interview. "Kinky Boots" (Tony Awardee in 2013 at Best Musical on Broadway) is at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC through July 10 and continues on the road after that.
Best-selling author Sebastian Junger talks about his new book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, with Dan Raviv, anchor of the CBS News Weekend Roundup. With examples throughout history, Junger finds that we could learn a lot from tribal societies -- and then the return home of America's warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan might be easier. It could be more human and humane.
The well known Israeli author, David Grossman, speaks with Dan Raviv (for the CBS News Weekend Roundup), about his novel "Falling Out of Time" -- a universal tale of parents grieving for dead children -- which has been adapted as a play that is now in Washington DC at Theater J.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan's latest book is "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War." He's interviewed by CBS News correspondent Dan Raviv for the radio broadcast, CBS News Weekend Roundup.
John Donvan and Caren Zucker, authors of "In a Different Key: The Story of Autism" were in the CBS News Weekend Roundup studio with host, Dan Raviv. Here's the 8-minute interview.
Filmmaker Aviva Kempner's latest documentary is "Rosenwald," on a Jewish philanthropist (head of Sears Roebuck a century ago) who donated money for 5,000 schools for black children in the South and Southwest. Interviewed by Dan Raviv on CBS News Weekend Roundup. More info at RosenwaldFilm.org .
Patty Marx, former SNL and "Rugrats" writer now on The New Yorker staff, tells CBS's Dan Raviv how her anxiety about losing brain power led to her amusing and informative book, Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties. (This is an excerpt from the August 21, 2015, CBS News Weekend Roundup.)
Geoff Colvin, a Fortune editor and CBS Radio contributor, is interviewed by Dan Raviv (CBS News correspondent) on Colvin's new book, "Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will"
Jimmy Carter, who had a terrible time with Iran as President from 1977 to 1981 -- especially because 52 Americans were held hostage by Iran -- tells Dan Raviv on the CBS News Weekend Roundup that a nuclear deal with Iran can be trusted, if Secretary of State Kerry endorses it. Carter also talks about his new book, "A Full Life: Reflections at 90."
Former Ambassador Michael Oren discusses his new book ALLY: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide with CBS News Correspondent Dan Raviv.
Dina Gold discusses "Stolen Legacy" -- her new book on her fight for property seized by Nazis in Berlin. The interviewer, on the CBS News Weekend Roundup, is Dan Raviv. Gold's publisher is Ankerwycke, the new imprint of the American Bar Association. (The fight for stolen property may remind some of the recent Helen Mirren movie, "Woman in Gold," another true story.)
A former deputy (and acting) director of the CIA, Michael Morell -- now a CBS News analyst -- dips into his 33-year career with the Agency to reflect on the post-9/11 wars: including the dangers of easing the pressure on terrorists. Morell was on the CBS News Weekend Roundup interviewed by Dan Raviv (May 15, 2015).