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Anna Deavere Smith: She’s Been Hundreds of People
Season 12
Using her voice, her body, and a close observation of speech patterns, Anna Deveare Smith has chronicled our times with staged portraits of the peopl…
5 years, 1 month ago
John Colapinto: Speaking of the Voice…
Season 12
Journalist John Colapinto blew out his voice singing too loud and too long in a rock band. The good news is that it inspired him to find out what hap…
5 years, 1 month ago
Does your doctor care about you?
Season 12
A searing experience with an apparently uncaring doctor when she was young helped make Dr. Jillian Horton a passionate advocate for a radical rethink…
5 years, 2 months ago
How to Explain Almost Everything
Season 12
Bill Bryson loves finding out about stuff – like how much the earth weighs and why you have a spleen – then letting the rest of us know what he’s lea…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Empathy Diaries
Season 12
In her new book, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir, Sherry Turkle movingly—and candidly—weaves together events in her own life with her dawning understan…
5 years, 2 months ago
Space Rocks
Season 12
Brian May, famed guitarist and founder of the rock group Queen, is also Dr. Brian May, astrophysicist. His research on the dust that swirls around th…
5 years, 2 months ago
He Put the Dark in Energy
Season 12
Something is pushing the Universe apart. We don’t know what it is, but Michael Turner named it: Dark Energy. This cosmologist’s way with words helped…
5 years, 3 months ago
Getting to Here and Now
Season 12
The wonderful Laura Linney really knows how to relate, on stage and off. The way actors have to be present for one another can be a good model for ho…
5 years, 3 months ago
Making the End a Beginning
Season 12
In a moving and frank conversation – punctuated by laughter – Alan talks with Rabbi Steve Leder about the unavoidable subject, which people usually a…
5 years, 3 months ago
From DaVinci to CRISPR
Season 12
Walter Isaacson’s latest exploration of the lives of creative geniuses focuses on Jennifer Doudna, the co-inventor of the revolutionary gene editing …
5 years, 3 months ago