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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Louise Brown tells Anne Strainchamps that the traditional culture of prostitution is related to the performing arts in Pakistan but that it is being replaced by a sex industry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Getting lost has many meanings and sometimes it’s a good thing if it allows you to go beyond your own constraints and comfort zones.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hana was a little girl killed in the Holocaust. Her suitcase came into the possession of a Japanese school teacher some 60 years later.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Get your chairs in order for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz...Ithaca-style!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jerry Aronson spent a dozen years filming the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and produced a documentary called "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How did religion ever get started in the first place?  We talked to renowned sociologist Robert Bellah shortly before he died.  He said religion isn't about belief in God.  Its origins go back to the rituals of our ancient ancestors, and ultimately to play.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

James McBride won the National Book Award for "The Good Lord Bird," his novel about the abolitionist John Brown.  He explains why he doesn't like most fictional portraits of slavery and how he tried to tell a different story.

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