Audio

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doug Gordon talks with Terre Roche about The Roches - Terre and her two sisters and their new album.  And we hear lots of music!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Vreeland talks about why she’s so attracted to the world of art, and why Emily Carr, the subject of her latest book, loved the First Nations’ people and their art.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier explores the rise of the tech industry in his book "Who Owns the Future?" In it, he explains why the next information economy is hurting the middle class.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

First Amendment lawyer Ron Collins talks with Steve Paulson about the renegade comedian and junkie Lenny Bruce who was repeatedly arrested for obscenity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"I can't remember a time when I wasn't drawing," says Molly Crabapple. "I can't not draw. It's how I relate to the world." And Crabapple's art - her drawings, paintings and posters - have ignited various political causes, from the Occupy Movement to protests against the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo. She tells Anne Strainchamps how art can be a political tool. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Kim Hiss discovered her own symbiotic relationship with animals in winter.  She was working as an editor for Field and Stream Magazine and it was her first hunt. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Koudounaris has spent the past decade traveling around the world, climbing into church crypts and bone chambers and taking photos at over 250 burial sites in 30 countries. He's discovered chapels decorared with skeletons and underground caves filled with skulls—among other things. In this interview, he tells us how he began his obsession with displays of death.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

“How To Lose Friends and Alienate People” is the title of Toby Young’s memoir of his experience working for “Vanity Fair” magazine. The book was so successful, Young turned it into a play. 

Pages

Subscribe to Audio