coming upton today's show -- coming up on today's show richard talkins will be joining us. -- dawkins will be joining us. i have one regret about the emmys. i have one regret about the emmys on sunday night and that is that i was unable to attend and share in the joy for my friend stephen colbert and those at the court "the colbert reporo won a long served well overdue emmy. i have been in awe of that show from episode one. i believe stephen and everyone there has created something that has never before been seen on television and things happen on that show that could only happen on that show and they are remarkable. to my staff and crew, here is the best thing about my staff and crew it's not about -- win or lose, it doesn't matter. you know i saw newhart on stage, if anybody should have a house made out of emmys it's bob newhart. he was getting his first at age 135. [ laughter ] so everyone here, never forgets how fortunate they are to have had the kind of run that we've had, to have had the kind of recognition that we have. we know that the opportunity to do what we do every day is

it cannot organize the equivalent of richard dawkins, recent rally of 20,000 atheists in front of the washington main unit. i'm our modest hope is to begin a process of remembering some part a worthy movement of artist philosophers and social revolutionaries in order to see what they might have to say to us now. i hope you will find that they can still speak very powerful issue is. who >> i thought wow, that the answer. as more women in come across wife. i called my editor that i'm going to write a book this is why women should build a wallet she says okay. >> women in the working class are subjected to punitive taxes can it be made hard by the of the media, not getting any special interests out of washington like a fat cat get. we are all in the same vote no matter what color we are. that's the real problem. >> as a young child, segregation and racial discrimination and i didn't like it. as my mother call a father, migrate can parents, why segregation? why racial discrimination? they would say that's the way it is. don't get in trouble. don't get in the way. but in 1955 when i was in

she interviews richard dawkins on his book"an appetite for wonder: the making of a scientist." he talks about his guidance with religion and embrace of science and the secular world. this program is about an hour. >> host: richard i can't help but notice and admire your tie which has pangolins. was there a significance to that? >> guest: it was handpainted by my wife as all of my ties are. this is a one off tie. nothing else like it in the world. we went to antarctic last christmas on a cruise and we spent christmas on the boat in an arctic so this was like christmas present. >> host: to you have a particular interest in pangolins? >> guest: they are astonishing animals the way they fly in the water. they look clumsy on land. then they get under water and they are dirt. the streamlining is beautiful. and so, like dolphins they are astonishingly fast. and they jumped out of the border and back in again in a dolphin like way. >> host: you're first big success was the selfish gene and then forgot the delusion that need to the controversy will figure. then along with christopher hi

she ended his richard dawkins about his latest book, "an appetite for wonder." this program is about one hour. >> host: so richard, i can't help but notice and admire your time. which has penguins on it. is the significance to that, and biological significance tragedy these are chinstrap england but it's hand-painted by my wife, as all my ties are. this is a one off time. there's nothing else like it in the world. >> host: is fabulous. >> guest: we would to an article last christmas on a cruise. coal we spent christmas on the boat in an article. this was my christmas present. >> host: do have a particular interest in penguins tragic i love penguins to they are astonishing animals way they fly underwater. they look so clumsy on land like clumsy little humans waddling along. syndicate in the water and their phenomenally fast. you wouldn't believe how quickly they can swim through the water. the streamlining is beautiful. and select opens their astonishingly fast and they do that all living on the water. they jump out of the water and back in again. >> host: your fi

she interviews richard dawkins about his later book the memoirs "an appetite for wonder". this program is about an hour. >> host: richard i can't help but notice and admire your tie which has paid went on it. is there a significance to that a biological significance? >> guest: its hand-painted by my wife as all of my ties are. she paints ties and this is a one-off tie. there's nothing else like it in the world. we went to antarctica last christmas on a cruise and we spent christmas on a boat together so this was my christmas present. we were seeing millions of penguins and this was a wonderful present from her. >> host: do you have a particular interest in penguins? >> guest: i love penguins. they are astonishing animals the way they fly underwater. they are so clumsy on land and then they get underwater and they are phenomenally fast. you wouldn't believe how quickly they can swim through the water. streamlining is beautiful and so like dolphins they are astonishingly fast in the do the dolphin thing. they jump in the water and back out again. >> host: your first big succe

she ended his richard dawkins about his latest book, "an appetite for wonder." his program is about one hour. >> host: so richard, i can't help but notice and admire your time. which has penguins on it. is the significance to that, and biological significance tragedy these are chinstrap england but it's hand-painted by

." >> sally quinn questions richard dawkins sunday night on "afterwords." >> now a discussion of theurrent state of the u.s. energy resources with a look back at the oil embargo that occurred 40 years ago this month. from this morning's washington " this is 40 minutes. host: joining us now from new york is john kingston. our topic -- the role of opec especially as we mark a historical event in opec's history. mr. kingston, thank you for joining us. and we start with a little bit of perspective? tell our viewers a little bit about what opec is and specifically an event 40 years ago which brings us to today's discussion. guest: opec was founded in 1960 in baghdad with the first meeting. in order to wrest a little bit more control from what was in the big oil companies and also to protect the price of oil from falling too far. there was too much oil for the world, the standard oil cartels for a long time kept it from falling further. opec then took on that role. i think americans do or member the embargo in 1973, which came out of the yom kippur war, and as a result, they think of opec

richard dawkins, sunday night at nine eastern and pacific on afterwords, part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> now, a look at the congressional deal that reopened the federal government and lifted the debt ceiling. stephen moore of the wall street journal was the guest on thursdays washington journal. it is 25 minutes. host: thanks for joining us. before we start, lessons learned over the last two weeks from your perspective. what i learn from republicans, you cannot win this sort of fight when you are not unified. the truth is the republicans never had a unified strategy. our editorial page has said from the beginning there is no one who wants obamacare more than we do, it just probably was not the right strategy. the president was very unlikely do finding hiso signature achievement. unding his signature achievement. i was listening to the show are earlier. in general, i agree with a lot of your callers that there is no real winner here. political game, but the truth is we just passed expensive gap and we didn't do anything about it. the band plays on. host: now that we have th

quinn talks to richard dawkins on "american history tv on " "afterwords," part of booktv on c-span2.> niagara is a reconstruction of a ship built here in the winter of 1813 for the battle of lake erie. it was built to contest control with the british and to wrest control of the lake with the rest of the squadron of ships that was built here. it includes timbers from the original. they are not structural or load- bearing. they are a symbolic presence. what is original about the ship is the way it sales. the work the crew has to do is very much what this team and had to do in 1813. en had to do inm 1813. teach in, and appreciation of the war of 1812, and the maritime history of the great lakes, but really most of the learning that is on board is about the functioning of the team. that is of real value now a place where we could continue certain traditions and certain attitudes and abilities that have been with us for centuries. we perpetuate that and keep it going. -- commodorenor oliver perry would lead them to victory. we look at the history of erie, pennsylvania on c-span2. "washing

coming upton today's show -- coming up on today's show richard talkins will be joining us. -- dawkins will be joining us. i have one regret about the emmys. i have one regret about the emmys on sunday night and that is that i was unable to attend and share in the joy for my friend stephen colbert and those at the court "the colbert reporo won a long served well overdue emmy. i have been in awe of that show from episode one. i believe stephen and everyone