Ann Marlow had a successful career on Wall Street – and simultaneously, a heroin habit. She never resorted to selling drugs or her body. She never hit rock bottom. After ten years, she decided to quit– and never went back. The antithesis of the junkie stereotype.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Seth Kane Kwei launched a revolution in Ghanaian funeral practices in the early 1950s, when he redesigned a chief's traditional palaquin into a coffin. His grandson, Eric Adjetey Anang, is now carrying on his grandfather's work, making coffins that reflect the trades, accomplishments and dreams of the deceased.
Eugene Thacker talks to Anne Strainchamps about what horror and philosphy have in common in this UNCUT interview from our "Horror" show.
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.
Have you ever had something happen to you that's SO embarrassing.... you wish could forget it? Well, listen to these truly humiliating stories.
Reporter Greg Bruno traveled around India and Nepal to investigate how Chinese influence is shaping the lives of Tibetans far away from home.
Garry Kasparov may be the greatest chess player who ever lived. He tells Steve Paulson that he retired from the game to enter politics in his native Russia.
Henry Alford is the author of "How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)".
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