Henry Alford is the author of "How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)".
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Glen Tilbrook is a British singer and songwriter. He suffered a massive panic attack when he was supposed to interview Randy Newman.
Geoffrey O’Brien grew up in a musical family. He says that the advent of recording changed our relationship to music - it made the past permanent.
Harriet Reisen tells Anne Strainchamps that Alcott loved to anonymously write racy thrillers and organized women's political activity decades before suffrage was won.
Have you ever had something happen to you that's SO embarrassing.... you wish could forget it? Well, listen to these truly humiliating stories.
Gaby Wood is the author of “Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life.” She talks about the many experiments with automata and early mechanical beings.
Gregory Stock tells Jim Fleming that designing our babies’ genes will begin as a matter of screening out diseases.
Giorgio Moroder is 75 years old, DJing in front of huge crowds, and experiencing a level of success that he hasn't seen since the 1970s—when he produced some of the first, biggest, and best songs of the disco era.
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