Alistair McGrath teaches Historical Theology at Oxford University and he’s the author of “In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible, and How It Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anne Fadiman talks about the delight she and her brother took as children with collecting (and killing) butterflies.
Kevin Powers served as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. His novel “The Yellow Birds” was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Aaron was born female and lived the first 29 years of his life as a girl named Sarah. He then went through the hormone and surgical therapies to become male and lives now as a gay man.
Alex Blumberg used to be a producer for This American Life. He also co-founded NPR's Planet Money. He recently left public radio to launch his own podcast production company, called Gimlet Media. They've already got two podcasts out, with a third on the way. He says, with smart phones and Wi-Fi enabled cars, people have more opportunity to listen to what they want, when they want.
Celebrated poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote the foreword to the book, "This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra." He spoke to Steve Paulson about Sun Ra's music and poetry.
Actress Angela Ianonne tells Anne Strainchamps about her identification with Maria Callas and explains what she thinks made Callas such a great artist.
In the third installment of the story of the end of Dan Pierotti's life, his wife Judy talks about Dan's last days, and final moment.
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