Musicologist Rob Bowman tells Jim Fleming about the history of the record company that made Dr. King’s dream a reality in its everyday artistic and business dealings.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Phil Cousineau talks with Anne Strainchamps about the power of myth in everyday life, and why we need to recognize the myths active in our own lives.
John MacGregor is an art historian with psychiatric training, and the author of “Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal.”
Marian Marzinski tells host Jim Fleming about his new documentary “Patriots Day”, which tells the tale of Revolutionary War reenactors at the battle of Lexington & Concord.
Paula Kamen has had the same headache for 14 years. Her book is “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.”
Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
When independent radio producer Karen Michel moved from her apartment in Brooklyn out to the country – near the Hudson River - she wanted to know what her new neighbors really cared about. What, for them, it truly meant to live in a democracy where freedom is taken for granted.
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