"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alastair Bonnett's Dangerous Idea? Let's change our cities to promote urban biodiversity.
Historian Donald Sassoon tells Jim Fleming that the Mona Lisa is a great painting, but that other factors conspired to make it an international icon.
More than 100 million people have Twitter accounts. Every moment, across the globe, they are posting thousands of short digital messages; that’s a lot of data.
Maybe it can help us keep an eye out for cultural change?
Christopher Taylor talks with Jim Fleming about his recent series of concerts where he performed all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, from memory.
Brent Silby teaches philosophy in Christchurch, New Zealand and is the author of an article in "Philosophy Now" magazine called "The Simulated Universe."
Arturo Marcano tells Steve Paulson about the exploitative system of player development in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic that fuels the American major leagues.
In his book "Back to Our Future" David Sirota says the proof is in the staying power of 80s pop culture.
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