Bruno Littlemore is a talking chimp - a creature who straddles the world between humans and animals. His creator, novelist Benjamin Hale, describes his fascination with primates.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Deborah Pardes is the founder of the SIBL Project. SIBL stands for Songs Inspired by Literature.
Copernicus changed the world with his revolutionary idea that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. Dava Sobel tells us why this momentous discovery wasn't easy for Copernicus himself.
Christopher Woodward talks with Steve Paulson about the English mania for ruins and why they inspired the Romantic poets. Woodward’s book is “In Ruins.”
Don't look for authenticity on your plate! That's the message of Barry Glassner's book, "The Gospel of Food."
Brett Milano talks with Steve Paulson about why some people are obsessed with vinyl recordings.
The Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, has won a landslide election in India, sparking fears of new sectarianism. Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy is one of the BJP’s most prominent critics. In this EXTENDED interview, Roy tells Steve Paulson why she stopped writing fiction to focus on political activism. She begins with a reading from her Booker Prize-winning novel “The God of Small Things.”
David Grinspoon is the author of “Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life.”
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