Australian poet Les Murray is considered by many critics to be the greatest poet in the English language today. Steve Paulson sat down with Les Murray for a rare interview.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Greenberg tells Jim Fleming that Russians get under the skin of Americans, who often make promises they can’t fulfill to the Russians’ expectations.
Films about the cold war were a staple of the American film industry for decades, symbols of the Atomic Age.
Randall Kennedy tells Steve Paulson about some notorious cases where racially mixed children were left in impossible situations by state miscegenation laws.
Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.
Mawi Asgedom fled the civil war in Ethiopia and spent part of his childhood in a refugee camp in Sudan, but ended up giving the commencement address at his Harvard graduation.
Jason Reitman wrote and directed the film "Thank You for Smoking." We hear some very funny and totally subversive clips.
John Hodgeman has written an almanac called "The Areas of My Expertise." It's comprised entirely of fake facts.
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