What if Karl Marx were alive today and came back for a visit? That's the premise of the one-man show "Marx in Soho," starring Brian Jones and written by the late historian Howard Zinn.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Carey's novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism." Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.
Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, "What It is" reflects Lynda Barry's belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell.
What will extraterrestrial life look like? Paul Davies thinks it might be stranger than you can imagine.
Micah Sifry tells Jim Fleming how the United States became largely a two party state, and what benefits a third party can provide.
Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist who risked his life reporting for the New York Times from his homeland -- Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban-controlled Pashtun area. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, but had to leave his country.
Mohamed Nasheed is on a mission to save his country. The Maldives is one of the nations most vulnerable to the effects of climate change; some models predict that the Maldives could be underwater in a few decades.
Marcus Du Sautoy talks with Jim Fleming about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis and why it’s such an important puzzle for mathematicians.
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