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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How has English become Globish?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Anderson tells Steve Paulson that no single piece of evidence for Shakespeare's identity is conclusive, but all the funny coincidences "prove" his thesis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jan Louter is a Dutch film director. The PBS series Independent Lens just aired his piece “A Sad Flower in the Sand” about novelist John Fante. Fante wrote a 1939 novel called “Ask the Dust” ...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Nichols tells Jim Fleming about the Golden Globe race of 1968, when a group of unprepared sailors in inadequate craft attempted to sail alone around the world. 

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Katrina Browne produced and directed the documentary "Traces of the Trade" in an effort to come to terms with her family's legacy of slave trading. Browne talks with Jim Fleming and we hear excerpts from her film.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Auster is a director, screen-writer and novelist. He talks about dealing with moments of doubt while writing fiction.

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Film-maker Pola Rapaport talks with Steve Paulson about "Story of O." Rapaport has made a film about the classic erotic novel and its famously secretive author.

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A commentary on terrorism from poet Naomi Shihab Nye.

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