Ralph Nader's Dangerous Idea? Drafting the children and grandchildren of elected representatives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years. She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius.
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Monkees, the pop group with a hit TV show. Michael Nesmith wore the green stocking cap. Since then, he’s reinvented his career several times over. He (sort of) invented country rock. And the music video.
Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Christa Parravani talks about her book, "Her," a memoir about the special bond she shares with her identical twin sister.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Eric Morel is boxing’s flyweight World Champion. He was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and trains in Wisconsin. TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe Kane joined Morel at the gym for a day.
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