Arthur Magida

The Sprout Touring Film Festival showcases inspirational movies by and about people with developmental disabilities, and as the festival heads to town, we explore some of the cinematic highlights with Sprout director Anthony DiSalvo and Kate McGuire of The Arc Baltimore.

Arthur Magida’s book, The Nazi Séance, is set in Berlin during the 1930’s. It was a time when the German economy was still in shambles after the Great War, and the Nazi party was slowly but steadily rising to power.  The people of Germany were looking for something, anything, to believe in – and so they held séances, psychic readings, and communions with the dead.

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The Chester River is an important part of life for poet Meredith Davies Hadaway.  It’s also the inspiration for her poetry, and this week the Eastern-Shore writer takes us out onto the waters that have meant so much to her.

Arthur Magida talks about his book, THE NAZI SÉANCE: THE STRANGE STORY OF THE JEWISH PSYCHIC IN HITLER’S CIRCLE.  It’s the tale of a celebrated clairvoyant who let his ambition blind him to the realities of life in 1930’s Berlin.  

David Silverman’s got a collection of almost 900 pinball machines, and he’s about to open the National Pinball Museum right here in downtown Charm City.  We drop in at the museum for a crash course in pinball history.

Arthur Magida talks about his book, “The Nazi Séance:  The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle.”  The book tells the tale of Erik Jan Hanussen, a celebrated clairvoyant who let his own ambition blind him to the terrible realities of life in Berlin during the 1930’s.

Today, Baltimore’s Commission on HIV and AIDS presents its 2011 strategy to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. We talk with virologist Bill Blattner, who heads the commission. Sheilah talks to Arthur Magida, author of “Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Inner Circle.”   The veteran jazz pianist tells Tom Hall how he keeps the tradition of Jelly Roll Morton while still blazing trails with avant-garde icons from Archie Shepp to William Parker.