Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president? Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”
Mike Tidwell is a freelance journalist who thinks he’s found the biggest environmental catastrophe in America. In this pre-Katrina interview, Tidwell talks about the time he spent with shrimpers in the bayou country and what they taught him about the devastating price we’re paying for the way we control floods on the Mississippi River.
Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests. She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.
Jane Goodall is the name best known in the world when you talk about chimpanzees.
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