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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

Food is certainly the most palatable expression of culture, and the most easily shared.
 
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted - culture. In this UNCUT interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about food in translation.
 
It'll get your stomach growling, so have some snacks handy!
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Goodall is the name best known in the world when you talk about chimpanzees.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Celtic historian John Matthews tells Steve Paulson that Merlin probably was a real person and that wizards are related to our ancient shamans.

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Naomi Klein discusses how countries impose "disaster capitalism" on countries to get otherwise unpopular policies accepted.

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Judy Pascoe tells Steve Paulson about her novel “Our Father Who Art in a Tree.”  A young girl’s father dies unexpectedly, but she finds his spirit lives in the backyard tree.

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Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."

You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Ostler talks to Jim Fleming about how languages spread and the similarities and differences between Chinese and English.

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