Over the last year or so, Russell Brand has increasingly used his celebrity status to advocate for changing our political systems. His new, best-selling book puts these ideas on paper, drawing on political theorists and his own personal experiences to reimagine society itself.
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Matthew Brzezinski tells Steve Paulson that he was beaten and robbed soon after his arrival in Ukraine. He says Moscow is a different planet than the rest of Russia.
So, there’s a serious proposal on the table. Should we genetically engineer disease-carrying species of mosquitoes out of existence? The technology exists and some pretty prominent scientists think we should.
Let’s check in with Sonia Shah. She’s a science journalist who writes about pandemics and pathogens and the social history of disease. She wrote one of the best histories of malaria – a book called “The Fever”, and she has a pretty different perspective on the kill or be killed debate.
Leigh and Leslie Keno are identical twin brothers and antiques appraisers. They talk with Jim Fleming about their lifelong love affair with treasure hunting.
Author and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about his play “Copenhagen” and the dramatic meeting between physicists Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941. At issue is the degree to which Heisenberg was spying for the Nazis and his role in the development of a German atom bomb.
Margot Peters is the author of “Design for Living” - a biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Jo Tatchell and Nabeel Yasin talk about poetry in Iraq, how Yasin got out of the country, and what it was like for him to go back after 27 years.
Robert Gordon tells Steve Paulson that he discovered the great Black Blues players while still a white boy in high school and that the racial complexities of Memphis have always been at the heart of its music.
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