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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Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
When President Obama took office, the Democratic Party was riding high, and the Republican Party, some thought, was on its way out. No one paid much attention to the Tea Party. Times have changed.
English journalist Jason Elliot tells Steve Paulson that Afghans are proud and pious people who still suffer from the aftermath of a decade of war.
Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder” was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years.
Historian Jeremy Black talks with Steve Paulson about James Bond as an agent of the British Empire. He says Bond’s adventures are often set in former British colonies.
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.
Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
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