Chuck Taggart is the producer and compiler of a CD box set called “Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention. That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation. Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes. He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections. Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries. Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China. It’s called “Manufactured Landscapes.”
New York Times writer went to Stockholm to track down the back story of the Millennium series and its author who died suddenly.
Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.
Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.
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.
David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
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