We made some particular choices about the music in hour four. Here's a note from Charles about the thinking that went into the score, and a Spotify playlist to explore.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Many people don't know that the voice of Bart Simpson is really Nancy Cartwright. She started doing voices in her early teens, and credits Daws Butler with teaching her to be an actor with her voice.
Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
"Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong"
Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that he found growing in a country churchyard.
Mark Headley talks about his book, "Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology."
Rae Armantrout believes that there is one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Psychologist Robert Karen, author of “The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection,” tells Jim Fleming that forcing kids to apologize when they’re not really sorry is a bad idea.
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