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Kirstin Downey on "The Woman Behind the New Deal"

Frances Perkins was the woman behind the New Deal as she was sworn in as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt.

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Peter Carey on "Wrong About Japan"

Novelist Peter Carey talks about the trip he describes in his book “Wrong about Japan: A Father’s Journey with His Son.”  Carey took his then 12 year old son Charley to meet directors of Japanese anime films and creators of manga comics

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Mamak Khadem on "Jostojoo"

Mamak Khadem came to America from Iran to finish high school. She began to sing Persian music to stay connected to her homeland.

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Never Write For Free

Writer and activist Yasmin Nair's Dangerous Idea? Writers should always 

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On Our Minds: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."

You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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John Emsley on "Nature's Building Blocks"

John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.

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Lawrence Osborne on Wine Criticism

Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows.  He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.

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Pink Martini - Thomas Lauderdale

Thomas Lauderdale talks about his "little orchestra," Pink Martini.

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