Jack Sullivan is the author of "Hitchcock's Music." He tells Anne Strainchamps about the partnership between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermann which resulted in some of the greatest film scores ever written.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gordon Grice talks with Anne Strainchamps about the wilder side of nature and why we overlook the ferocity of wild animals at our peril.
Theologian Harvey Cox tells Anne Strainchamps that speaking in tongues is an ecstatic form of worship that has been present in Christianity since the days of the Apostles. It makes some church leaders nervous, but is a way for ordinary people to experience mysticism.
If you really want to know how to disappear, you might want to talk to the U.S. Marshall Service, which runs the Federal Witness Protection Program.
When Kevin Miyazaki was a child, there was something his family rarely discussed . His father’s family was interned in American camps during World War II. Now let’s not mince words here. His father’s family is Japanese and lived in Takoma, Washington. But after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were rounded up and put into concentration camps. Kevin went on to be a successful fine arts photographer. But one day his family’s past merged with his art.
Kevin's work is on view as a part of the 2013 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Click here to see the photos he discussed in the interview and to read his catalogue "Guide to Modern Camp Homes: 10 New Models and Plans for Persons of Japanese Ancestry."
TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen visits with chef Homaro Cantu at his genre-bending, high-tech Chicago restaurant called Moto.
Glenn Kay talks to Jim Fleming about some of the 300 zombie films he has seen, rated, and reviewed.
Historian Harold Schechter tells Anne Strainchamps that violence has always been an important part of popular entertainment and our ancestors enjoyed truly grisly spectacles.
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