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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Keith recalls his nomadic life with his divorced, alcoholic father.  He never had enough to eat, and got into trouble, but decided who he didn’t want to be.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We hear a story of the Great Depression from Linda Nelson's family.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Philip Roth talks with Steve Paulson about his work and says Nathan Zukerman had made his final appearance in Roth's new novel, "Exit Ghost."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mike Hoyt is Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He encouraged his staff to question embedded reporters about the embed system and the war.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you fall in love with anyone?  More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory.   How?  He asked them 36 questions.    This year, Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew.  Now they’re in love.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pattie Boyd was a young model in London when she met and married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rachel Simon tells Anne Strainchamps that the physical transformation of the house caused her to reflect on transforming herself and rebuilding the most important relationships in her life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Franklin was Ben Franklin’s favorite sibling. While he became an inventor, statesman and one of the 18th century’s most famous men, she became a wife and mother who could barely write and struggled to make ends meet – and until now, was forgotten by history. In this UNCUT interview, Jill Lepore tells the story of this remarkable century woman, and talks about the parallels between writing history and journalism.

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