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Postcards from a Listener

We share the mysterious story of the listener who sent us postcards in response to our show about handwriting.

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Jorge Drexler on his Oscar and Identity

Jorge Drexler is the first person from Uruguay to win an Academy Award, for the song "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which is featured in the film, "The Motorcycle Diaries."

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Roald Hoffmann on Science and Art

Roald Hoffmann won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he’s also a poet. He thinks the two disciplines have a lot in common, and reads a couple of poems.

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Ned Rorem on Composing Classical Music

Ned Rorem tells Jim Fleming that the world of classical music is all about money today and that performers seem to matter even more than the music.

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Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman on "Gertrude and Alice"

Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman are actresses who wrote and perform a play called “Gertrude and Alice.”   They tell Steve Paulson about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

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Paul Theroux on His Experience in Africa

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.

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Jim Crace on the End Time

Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.

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Michio Kaku on "Physics of the Impossible"

Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.

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