Jonathan Miller, who along with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Alan Bennett, created “Beyond the Fringe,” talks about the nature of humor with Steve Paulson.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nick Hitchon is one of the participants in Michael Apted's Seven Up series of documentaries that checks in on the lives of ordinary people every seven years.
M.C. Beaton writes mysteries under a variety of pen names. Matthew Prichard is Agatha Christie's grandson.
Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
Rae Armantrout believes that there is one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone are book dealers. They tell Anne Strainchamps what a first edition Harry Potter is going for now, and how the New England forger fooled the industry for a long time.
Richard Ranft has collected underwater sounds of mating haddock, snapping shrimp, walruses and other sea creatures.
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