Jo Tatchell and Nabeel Yasin talk about poetry in Iraq, how Yasin got out of the country, and what it was like for him to go back after 27 years.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Harrison travels to some of the most remote places in the world, documenting endangered languages. He tells us about the language warriors: the last speakers of ancestral languages. Many of them are trying to preserve and revive their native tongues.
Martyn Stewart is one of audio engineers who went to Alaska in 2006 as part of the Arctic Soundscape Project to record the sounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
John Matthews talks with Anne Strainchamps about the sacred pre-Christian origins of many of our secular Christmas traditions.
Will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? In this UNCUT interview, Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics.
Investigative journalist Leslie Kean talks to Jim Fleming about her book, "UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record."
Merge is a quartet that combines poetry with jazz music. Cassandra Cleghorn and Erik Lawrence talk with Jim Fleming about their art and how much they have in common with the Beats.
Australian novelist Peter Carey talks with Steve Paulson about "My Life as a Fake," and the peculiar career of the great Australian poet who never existed.
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