Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.
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.
Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.
David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
Elizabeth George, author of the Inspector Lynley mysteries, talks about her new novel that tells the life story of the mixed race boy who's arrested for the fatal mugging of the Inspector's wife, which occurred in the previous novel in the series.
Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.
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