Leonard Lopate - The Leonard Lopate Show

The Leonard Lopate Show

Lopate's talk show airs on WNYC from noon to 2 pm every weekday. Segments of the show are available as podcasts found on iTunes and on the station's website.

The show's format typically consists of four interviews ranging from twenty to forty minutes in length and covers a broad range of topics including jazz and gospel music, food and wine (winner of two James Beard Awards), literature, the arts, science and history. Lopate has interviewed politicians, poets, painters, novelists, filmmakers, actors, dancers and more than a few Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Lopate introduced two ongoing features to the program. One is called "Please Explain", in which he talks with experts on a wide variety of topics. The topics are not tied to book or movie releases and can be described as general interest. In 2006, some of the topics he delved into included sainthood, nanotechnology, insomnia, infertility and meditation. The other feature is called "Underreported", in which Lopate delves deeply into political and social issues.

For the show's twentieth anniversary, in 2005, Tom Brokaw interviewed Lopate about the history of the show, his goals and his interviewing style.

The show was originally called "New York & Company".