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Film critic Roger Ebert’s written a book called “The Great Movies” in which he describes 100 films he thinks make the cut. Among them is Richard Lester’s film of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.” Ebert talks about why that film is so important.
Jamie Coots, the pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name, in Middlesboro, Kentucky, died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake he was handling during a church service. We interviewed him a few weeks before his death.
Redmond O’Hanlon is travel writer who’s braved the Congo, Borneo and the Amazon. This time around, he tries his luck on a trawler in the icy Atlantic in dangerous waters.
Writer and activist Linda Tirado has lived a lot of shabby apartments over the years. She's dealt with greedy landlords, flooded apartments and bug infestations. As she writes in her memoir "Hand To Mouth: Living In Bootstrap America," substandard housing is just a fact of life when you're part of the working poor in America.
Nicole-Anne Boyer is a strategic foresight specialist who helps clients come up with realistic projections of the future. She tells Steve Paulson that violent conflicts have actually dramatically decreased since the end of the Cold War...
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Fleming talk about television in the novels of writers Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid large purchases. It's also the setting for Ed Lin's newest mystery. Lin is a 3-time winner of the Asian-American Literary Award.
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