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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Madeleine Albright tells Steve Paulson that being the first female Secretary of State was more of a problem within the U.S. than it ever was when she represented our interests abroad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.”  He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter.  She is the only African American female to do so.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Leleux talks about growing up gay, in Texas, with his plastic surgery junkie and drama queen of a mother, whom he adores and who is accompanying him on his book tour.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Klimley is the world’s leading expert on Hammerhead and Great White sharks. He tells Jim Fleming what Hollywood got wrong in “Jaws."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss talks with Steve Paulson about the cosmology of the end of the universe. The big bang will also have a big finish!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs. 

Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!

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