The Family Dinner

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PART THREE

The Family Dinner - Laurie David

We started this segment with a clip from a 1950 american public service announcement, A Date With the Family.

Laurie David is a well-known activist and producer of the Academy award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Today, she is trying to revive what she sees as an endangered - and vital - family ritual. Her new book is The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect With Your Kids, One Meal at a Time. She was in Los Angeles.

Related Links:

• The unbreakable rules for family dinners by Julia McKinnell - Macleans
• Marie Claire Interview - Q&A with Laurie David: The Return to Family Dinner
  By Anna Maltby
• Reclaiming the Family Dinner: an interview with Laurie David by Dan Coxon
• A Mealtime Manifesto by Deborah Solomon - New York Times

Music Bridge

Artist: Yann Tiersen
CD: Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain Film
Cut: # 4, Comptine D'un Autre Ete: L'Apres-Midi
Label: Labels
Spine: 8102292

Last Word - Cleopatra Promo

Coming up this week on The Current, we are looking at the recent resurgence in interest over Cleopatra. With two new books and an upcoming Hollywood film about the Egyptian Queen there are competing interpretations emerging over her significance.

We will hear from author Adrian Goldsworthy about how he believes we've overly romanticized Cleopatra. And from Gayle Gibson - an Egyptologist at the Royal Ontario Museum who believes Cleopatra was in every sense... a mighty Queen. So we gave Gayle Gibson the last word today.

Other Segments from today's show:

• Abuelaish Lawsuit
• Boomerangers