Audio

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tilman Reiff, one of the inventors of “The Pain Station,” tries to explain to Steve Paulson why anyone would want to play a game that punishes poor play with physical pain.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Singer/songwriter Steve Earle was the Next Big Thing in alternative country music until heroin addiction and a chaotic personal life de-railed his career and almost killed him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen is a leading figure in Scandinavian jazz, famous for his meditative, almost prayful music. In his latest recording, he's collaborated with singer Simin Tander to reinterpret Norwegian church hymns and the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sharon Lovejoy tells Anne Strainchamps about sunflower houses, the giant’s garden, and why she sends kids into the garden with stethoscopes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Filmmaker Marina Lutz had little privacy growing up, Her father captured every piece of her life, from the mundane to the intimate, on film. Later, she rediscovered the footage and assembled it into her award-winning documentary “The Marina Experiment." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Terry Ryan tells Jim Fleming that her mother loved crafting contest entries and matched her efforts to the tastes of specific judges. And we hear some of her winning verses.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and is probably the most famous movie critic in America.  He talks with Steve Paulson about the movie genre known as film noir.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stewart Lee Allen explains why the ancient Greeks wouldn’t eat beans, how Spanish Christians began the tradition of eating ham for Easter, and what he’d serve at a dinner dedicated to the Seven Deadly Sins.

Pages

Subscribe to Audio