David Hughes is the author of “The Complete Lynch,” a comprehensive study of film-maker David Lynch’s work. Hughes talks about meeting Lynch in Prague, and they talk about Lynch’s use of sound.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Fernanda Eberstadt talks with Steve Paulson about the gypsy community of Perpignan. They’ve lived in this southern French city for some 500 years but don’t consider themselves French.
Charles Mann tells Steve Paulson how there got to be two Bayer companies making aspirin; how it was marketed in South America, and what makes Anacin different from aspirin.
Brian Price tells Anne Strainchamps how he came to prepare the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.
Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.
Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.
Bill Bryson talks with Jim Fleming about the personal stories of some of the people who made great scientific discoveries.
A few maverick physicists in the 1970s revived interest in quantum physics by exploring some of the deepest philosophical questions about reality.
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