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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Lloyd Young is starring as Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons in "Jersey Boys." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he decided to become an actor.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mandaza Kandemwa is widely recognized in Southern Africa as a traditional healer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Franklin was Ben Franklin’s favorite sibling. While he became an inventor, statesman and one of the 18th century’s most famous men, she became a wife and mother who could barely write and struggled to make ends meet – and until now, was forgotten by history. In this UNCUT interview, Jill Lepore tells the story of this remarkable century woman, and talks about the parallels between writing history and journalism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Three physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that the universe is rapidly expanding.  

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Martin Norden tells Anne Strainchamps that the disabled have been in films from the beginning, but only as stereotypes: bad disabled people get killed off, while good disabled people get cured.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We hear a conversation between Steve Paulson and German historian Jessica Gienow-Hecht. They discuss why the huge casualties among German civilians have been taboo for discussion.

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