Liz Mermin tells Anne Strainchamps that her film, "The Beauty Academy of Kabul", chronicles the efforts of some Afghan women to maintain a little independence and earn a little money.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Collins describes his experience as an antiquarian bookseller in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye in his book “Sixpence House.”
Cancer patient Katie Paul has ovarian cancer and describes how the disease has changed her life.
Listen to some of the voices from the Occupy Wall Street protest at 60 Wall Street in New York.
One Laptop Per Child seeks to change the world by giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have electricity.
Margot Peters is the author of “Design for Living” - a biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Madhur Jaffrey, the Julia Child of India, talks with Anne Strainchamps about her extended Indian family.
We hear a clip from the 2007 film "When Nietzsche Wept" which introduces the concept of "eternal recurrence."
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