Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale." It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
What made Lincoln a great president? Was he a closet racist? We hear short interviews with Lincoln historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Orville Vernon Burton and John Stauffer.
Robbie Fulks talks to Doug Gordon about his latest album, "Georgia Hard," and his former identity as a staff songwriter for a Nashville music publisher.
Patrick Neate explains how young people from around the world adapt hip-hop to address their own concerns.
Novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire.
Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.
Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
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