Jazz musician Ben Sidran talks with Jim Fleming about the tremendous influence Jewish immigrant composers and songwriters had on American popular music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Burkhard Bilger tells Steve Paulson how to catch catfish with your bare hands; describes the delights of eating squirrel brains; and chronicles the exploits of some Southern marbles champions - the Rolly Holers.
Etgar Keret tells Anne Strainchamps that he is the child of Holocaust survivors and that his work reflects life in Israel as it really is today.
Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Photographer David Plowden talks about why he loves bridges and why it was important to preserve them on film.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells Steve Paulson his subject was a thoroughly bourgeois man who chose utter penury.
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