List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2015

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Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work." [1]

Original air date
(Links to video)		Interviewee(s)Comments
January 4, 2015 Janet Murguia Featured discussion of Murguia's role as president and chief executive officer of National Council of La Raza
January 11, 2015 Dick Lehr Featured discussion of Lehr's book The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War, about the reception of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation .
January 18, 2015 Dr. Anthony Fauci Featured discussion of Fauci's role as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
January 25, 2015 Andrew Keen Featured discussion of Keen's book The Internet is Not the Answer.
February 1, 2015 Dr. Frances Jensen Featured discussion of Jensen's research on the development of the adolescent brain.
February 8, 2015 David Brooks Featured discussion of "The Sidney Awards", the annual recognition Brooks gives to pieces of long-form journalism.
February 15, 2015 Thomas Allen Harris Featured discussion of Harris's documentary film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.
February 22, 2015 Jan Jarboe Russell Featured discussion of Russell's book The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.
March 1, 2015 Anthony Batts Featured discussion of Batts's experiences leading the police departments of Long Beach, Oakland, and Baltimore.
March 8, 2015 David Stewart Featured discussion of Stewart's book Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America.
March 15, 2015 Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman Featured discussion of Fugh-Berman's work as head of PharmedOut.
March 22, 2015 Daniel Bolger Featured discussion of Bolger's book Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
March 29, 2015 Erik Larson Featured discussion of Larson's book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
April 5, 2015 U.S. Senate Youth Program
April 12, 2015 Andrew Ferguson
April 19, 2015 Jessica Stern Featured discussion of Stern's book ISIS: The State of Terror.
April 26, 2015 Judith Miller Featured discussion of Miller's book The Story: A Reporter’s Journey.
May 3, 2015 Walter Pincus Featured discussion of Pincus's role as National Security Columnist for the Washington Post .
May 10, 2015 Kate Andersen Brower Featured discussion of Brower's book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.
May 17, 2015 Chris Hadfield Featured discussion of Hadfield's career in the Canadian Astronaut Corps and his work on the International Space Station.
May 24, 2015 Michael Witmore Featured discussion of Witmore's role as head of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
May 31, 2015 David McCullough Featured discussion of McCullough's book The Wright Brothers.
June 7, 2015 Don Ritchie and Ray Smock Featured discussion of Ritchie's experience as Historian of the U.S. Senate and Smock's experience as Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives (Part 1 of 2).
June 14, 2015 Dr. Patrick O'Gara Featured discussion of O'Gara's work in heart surgery and his experiences with the American College of Cardiology. O'Gara is the first cousin of interview host Brian Lamb.
June 21, 2015 Stephen Puleo Featured discussion of Puleo's book The Caning: The Assault that Drove America to Civil War about the Caning of Charles Sumner.
June 28, 2015 Evan Thomas Featured discussion of Thomas's book Being Nixon: A Man Divided.
July 5, 2015 Don Ritchie and Ray Smock Featured discussion of Ritchie's experience as Historian of the U.S. Senate and Smock's experience as Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives (Part 2 of 2).
July 12, 2015 Kristen Soltis Anderson Featured discussion of Anderson's book The Selfie Vote.
July 19, 2015 Molly Crabapple
July 26, 2015 Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville Featured discussion of Gordon and Neville's documentary film Best of Enemies .
August 2, 2015 Robert Kurson Featured discussion of Kurson's book Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship .
August 9, 2015 Kevyn Orr Featured discussion of Orr's experiences as emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan.
August 16, 2015 Phyllis Bennis
August 23, 2015 Kurt Deion Featured discussion of Deion's visits to the gravesites of all U.S. presidents and vice-presidents.
August 30, 2015 Vanda Felbab-Brown
September 6, 2015 Deborah Rhode Featured discussion of Rhode's book The Trouble with Lawyers.
September 13, 2015 Jennifer Teege Featured discussion of Teege's book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, about her discovery that her grandfather was Nazi concentration camp commander Amon Göth.
September 20, 2015 Robert Costa Featured discussion of Costa's reporting on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
September 27, 2015 Tom Sherwood Featured discussion of Sherwood's work in covering political corruption in the Washington D.C. area for WRC-TV.
October 4, 2015 Tony Mauro Featured discussion of Mauro's companion book to the 2015 C-SPAN series Landmark Cases: 12 Historic Supreme Court Decisions .
October 11, 2015 Gary Hart Featured discussion of Hart's book The Republic of Conscience.
October 18, 2015 Don Cogman Featured discussion of Cogman's book Run Mitch, Run.
October 25, 2015 Amy Chozick Featured discussion of Chozick's reporting on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
November 1, 2015 Jay Nordlinger Featured discussion of Nordlinger's book Children of Monsters.
November 8, 2015 Eric Metaxas Featured discussion of Metaxas's writings on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
November 15, 2015 Stacy Schiff Featured discussion of Schiff's book The Witches: Salem 1692.
November 22, 2015 Michelle Howard Featured discussion of Howard's career in the U.S. Navy and her position as a four-star admiral.
November 29, 2015 Ronald Feinman Featured discussion of Feinman's book Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency.
December 6, 2015N/AQ&A was preempted by U.S. President Barack Obama's live address on National Security. [2]
December 13, 2015 Betty Caroli Featured discussion of Caroli's book Lady Bird and Lyndon.
December 20, 2015 Craig Shirley Featured discussion of Shirley's book Last Act: The Final Years and Legacy of Ronald Reagan.
December 27, 2015 Tyler Abell Featured discussion of The Drew Pearson Diaries: Vol. II, which was edited by Abell. Abell is also the stepson of the author of the diaries, columnist Drew Pearson.

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Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."

References

  1. ↑ "C-SPAN's "Q&A"". YouTube. Retrieved 3 December 2014. Watch Q&A every Sunday night on C-SPAN at 8pm ET. Each week we introduce you to interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work.
  2. ↑ "President Obama Address on National Security". C-SPAN. 6 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
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