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 6, 2019 | Keach Hagey | Featured discussion of Hagey's book The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire about Sumner Redstone. |
| January 13, 2018 | James Grant | Featured discussion of Grant's work as publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. |
| January 20, 2019 | Patricia Miller | Featured discussion of Miller's book Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington. |
| January 27, 2019 | Jane Leavy | Featured discussion of Leavy's book The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created. |
| February 3, 2019 | Ron Liebman and Tim Baker | Featured discussion of Liebman and Baker's experiences prosecuting Spiro Agnew. |
| February 10, 2019 | Helen Andrews | Featured discussion of Andrews' article Shame Storm in First Things magazine. |
| February 17, 2019 | Monica Norton | Featured discussion of the Washington Post column Norton wrote about James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk. |
| February 24, 2019 | Elizabeth Samet | Featured discussion of Samet's annotated edition of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| March 3, 2019 | Eileen Rivers | Featured discussion of Rivers's book Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan. |
| March 10, 2019 | Amy S. Greenberg | Featured discussion of Greenberg's book Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk. |
| March 17, 2019 | Matthew Hoh | Featured discussion of Hoh's article "Time for Peace in Afghanistan and an End to the Lies". |
| March 23, 2019 | Robert Caro | Featured discussion of Caro's book Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing. |
| March 30, 2019 | Joan Biskupic | Featured discussion of Biskupic's book The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts. |
| April 7, 2019 | Douglas Brinkley | Featured discussion of Brinkley's book American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race. |
| April 14, 2019 | Susan Page | Featured discussion of Page's book The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. |
| April 21, 2019 | U.S. Senate Youth Program | |
| April 28, 2019 | David Brooks | Featured discussion of Brooks's book The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. |
| May 5, 2019 | Harold Holzer and Amity Shlaes | Featured discussion of the C-SPAN book The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best - and Worst - Chief Executives. |
| May 12, 2019 | David Maraniss | Featured discussion of Maraniss's book A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father. |
| May 19, 2019 | David McCullough | Featured discussion of McCullough's book The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. This was the last Q&A program to feature Brian Lamb as its regular host. |
| September 8, 2019 | Margaret O'Mara | Featured discussion of O'Mara's book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. This was the first Q&A program to feature Susan Swain as its host. |
| September 15, 2019 | Malcolm Gladwell | Featured discussion of Gladwell's book Talking to Strangers. |
| September 22, 2019 | Kay Coles James | Featured discussion of Coles's experiences as president of The Heritage Foundation. |
| September 29, 2019 | James Banner | Featured discussion of Banner's book Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today. |
| October 6, 2019 | Peter Liebhold | Featured discussion of the history of tariffs in the United States. |
| October 13, 2019 | Jeff Guinn | Featured discussion of Guinn's book The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip. |
| October 20, 2019 | Alan Kraut | Featured discussion of the history of immigration policies in the United States. |
| October 27, 2019 | Chris Arnade | Featured discussion of Arnade's book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. |
| November 3, 2019 | Elizabeth Papez | Featured discussion of the influence of several notable U.S. Supreme Court justices. |
| November 10, 2019 | Susannah Cahalan | Featured discussion of Cahalan's book The Great Pretender, about the Rosenhan experiment. |
| November 17, 2019 | Pamela Constable | Featured discussion of Constable's experiences as the Afghanistan/Pakistan bureau chief for the Washington Post. |
| November 24, 2019 | Lara Brown | Featured discussion of the U.S. presidential nomination process. |
| December 1, 2019 | Patty Rhule | Featured discussion of the history of press coverage American presidents. |
| December 8, 2019 | Holly Jackson | Featured discussion of Jackson's book American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation |
| December 15, 2019 | Azra Raza | Featured discussion of Raza's role as director of the Myelodysplastic Syndromes Center at Columbia University. |
References
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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.