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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Birute Galdikas talks about her almost other-worldly experience of living with orangutans in Borneo.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carlos Ruiz Zafon tells Jim Fleming that his recent books are part of a sort of Chinese box set of four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

He traveled the Amazon in search of drug-induced visionary experiences. That wild adventure led to a lifelong study of hallucinogens.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time."  It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.

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Mishy Harman recommends "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz.

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Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.

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Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.

 

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Dr. Mark Clanton talks with Jim Fleming about new directions in cancer research and the new targeted treatment drugs.

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