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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Manny Yarborough is 6'7" tall, weighs over 700 pounds, and  is a former amateur world champion sumo wrestler. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When you think about the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement and the last 50 years, it's tempting to think we've become a post-racial society. But University of Pennsylvania professor John Jackson Jr. believes we're seeing a new type of racial divide, characterized by distrust and paranoia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Joanna Trollope reads from "Second Honeymoon" and talks about why the empty nest syndrome is particularly difficult for women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some people went to war, some went to Canada, and others did alternative service. Coleman went to prison for refusing to fight. His memoir, “Spoke” tells the story of how he decided. 

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