British novelist Tony Parsons tells Steve Paulson why “Man and Boy” has been such a huge hit and remembers how difficult it was for his own father to express emotion.
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What turns you on?
Sure, there are the obvious answers: beauty, brains, braun. But human sexuality is a complicated business. Studying it is more complicated still. That was, until the internet came along.
Steve Almond tells Steve Paulson some of his favorite candy bars are the regional specialities, and remembers the pop rocks craze.
Outstanding playwright and performer Sarah Jones takes us inside creating characters. She won a Tony for her multi-character solo show, "Bridge & Tunnel," which was a long running hit on Broadway.
Ted Steinberg tells Jim Fleming that Americans love perfect mono-cultures and are willing to over-water and freely use chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides to achieve them.
Jamie Coots, the pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name, in Middlesboro, Kentucky, died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake he was handling during a church service. We interviewed him a few weeks before his death.
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein tells Anne Strainchamps she grew up going to the theater and wanted to be sure others got the same opportunity.
Xinran hosted a call-in radio program in Beijing which for eight years told the heart-rending true stories of women’s lives in China.
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