For the last 25 years, 
Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many 
Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his 
Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary 
society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains one 
of television's last vestiges of in-depth, civil conversation. First came C-SPAN's Booknotes 
 in 1989, which by the time it ended in December 2004, was the 
longest-running author-interview program in American broadcast history. 
Many of the most notable nonfiction authors of its era were featured 
over the course of 800 episodes, and the conversations became a defining 
 hour for the network and for nonfiction writers. In January 
2005, C-SPAN embarked on a new chapter with the launch of Q and A. Again 
 one hour of uninterrupted conversation but the focus was expanded to 
include documentary film makers, entrepreneurs, social workers, 
political leaders and just about anyone with a story to tell. To mark this anniversary Lamb and his team at C-SPAN have assembled Sundays at Eight, 
 a collection of the best unpublished interviews and stories from the 
last 25 years. Featured in this collection are historians like David 
McCullough, Ron Chernow and Robert Caro, reporters including April Witt, 
 John Burns and Michael Weisskopf, and numerous others, including 
Christopher Hitchens, Brit Hume and Kenneth Feinberg.

Sundays at Eight: 25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN’S Q and A and Booknotes PDF

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