TTBOOK producer Charles Monroe-Kane is a great storyteller who's led an adventurous life. Here's a wild story from his memoir "Lithium Jesus" about smuggling mob money when he lived in Prague in the '90s.
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Why does dancing - or just watching other people dance - feel so good? Correspondent Frank Browning checks in with dancers and neuroscientists.
Peter Edelman says government policies can either help or hinder people on the road to economic stability. Edelman’s the longtime policy advisor who quit Bill Clinton’s administration when the President signed new welfare laws that – in Edelman’s opinion – destroyed the social safety net.
Tim Richardson tells Anne Strainchamps about his favorite candies from around the world.
Ruth Gendler re-tells the story of "The Mountain That Loved A Bird" by Alice McLerran and Eric Carle. Gendler is an artist and the author of "Notes on the Need for Beauty." She tells Anne Strainchamps that we need to learn to see the beauty in the world all around us.
Steven Okazaki is a third generation Japanese-American and an Academy Award winning film-maker. He tells Jim Fleming that Japanese-Americans face racism both at home and in Japan.
Stacy Schiff's new book "Cleopatra: a life" describes the Egyptian queen as a shrewd political strategist and a brilliant leader.
Historian Ron Numbers talks with Steve Paulson. Numbers was once an ardent creationist and is the author of "The Creationists," the definitive history of the anti-evolutionist movement.
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