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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Jones is an actor portraying Karl Marx in "Marx in Soho."  Jones tells Judith Strasser some of the details about Marx that helped him nail the character.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist Cindy Engel tells Steve Paulson that wild animals self-medicate in a number of ways and that there is really no difference for animals between nutrition and medicine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carl Wilson is a writer and editor at Canada's national newspaper "The Globe and Mail," and the author of "Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste."  The book examines the phenomenon of Celine Dion, the best-selling female recording artist in the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ben Folds is fascinated with the human voice, especially in the genre of A Cappella music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alain de Botton's latest project Is art as therapy. Feeling lonely? Stand in front of the Mona Lisa. Anxious about work? Caspar David Friedrich’s “Rocky Reef on the Seashore” will put everything in perspective. Anne talks with de Botton about his new book, free app, and… upcoming museum shows.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe-Kane visits the cornfield in Dyersville, Iowa where they filmed “Field of Dreams.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A young man named Black Nature is one of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. He tells how the group formed while fleeing from the brutality and bloodshed of their country's civil war.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gabe Hudson was a Marine Reservist whose unit served in the Gulf War. Hudson himself didn’t see combat, but based on his friends’ war stories, Hudson has written a book of surreal short stories.

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