Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club." She talks with Anne Strainchamps.
Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club." She talks with Anne Strainchamps.
Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was the rare book that changed how we think. On its 50th anniversary, historian of science Tom Broman talks about Kuhn's legacy and we hear excerpts from Kuhn's book.
Music critic Tom Moon is the author of "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List." Moon tells Steve Paulson why he chose what he chose and we hear some of his favorites.
What are you making? In San Francisco, two radio producers are collecting stories in a project called “The Making Of...”
Vince Staten tells Anne Strainchamps that barbershops give men a sense of community as well as haircuts and that nothing beats a barbershop shave.
The demographics of the United States are changing: how does the latest wave of immigration fit into the historical pattern?
Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.
For Robert Farris Thompson, the most beautiful, intimate and passionate of dances is Argentine tango.