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At the End of Sight
Episode 98
Writer Andrew Leland talks with Phoebe about slowly losing his eyesight. He was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis pigmentosa when…
2 years ago
Octavia and Miguel
Episode 96
When Miguel Esteban was 14 years old, he got an idea to make his own science fiction magazine. He wanted Octavia Butler to write a piece for it. So h…
2 years, 1 month ago
Hula with Teeth
Episode 96
One Saturday night in the 90s, Patrick Makuakāne and about 15 other hula dancers showed up to a club in San Francisco they called Old Dreamland. "It …
2 years, 1 month ago
Nurse BokHee
Episode 95
Nurse BokHee is in the background of every season of "Grey’s Anatomy." She’s become one of the show’s most beloved characters – but she's only had a …
2 years, 2 months ago
A Day at the Crematory
Episode 94
Gabrielle Gatto works at one of the most famous cemeteries in the country. Recently, she recorded a day in her life for the podcast Finally! A Show, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Switched-On
Episode 93
The synthesizer was invented in the 1890s. But for people to really start using it, it took half a century, a musician named Wendy Carlos, and an alb…
2 years, 2 months ago
To Know the Dark
Episode 92
The night sky is getting brighter almost everywhere in the world. We visit a place that is trying to stay dark. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and In…
2 years, 3 months ago
You Can't Promise to Love Forever
Episode 91
Folk singer Peggy Seeger and her partner, Irene Pyper-Scott, live on different continents. Peggy has written dozens of poems and songs for Irene, and…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Most Romantic Place in Philadelphia
Episode 90
McGillin’s Olde Ale House is the oldest bar in Philadelphia, and it also claims to be the most romantic place in the city. The Philadelphia Inquirer …
2 years, 4 months ago
At the Drawing Board
Episode 89
Curtis was one of the first nationally-syndicated comic strips with a mostly-Black cast of characters. Ray Billingsley has been drawing it for newspa…
2 years, 5 months ago