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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As a history professor, Anders Henriksson has had plenty of opportunity to collect mistakes and bloopers from term papers and college exams.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We head back in time now, to the evening of March 8th, 1971.  The night 8 young Vietnam war protestors broke into their local FBI office – in Media, PA – and stole top-secret documents that would rock the nation.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A.M. Homes was adopted as a newborn. When she was 31, her biological mother made contact, launching the writer on a years-long quest into her identity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One of the largely unknown stories about Camus was his friendship with the scientist Jacques Monod.  Both later won Nobel prizes - Camus for literature, Monod for biology - and both were heroes of the French Resistance.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When he was 14, Paul Menendez went to Havana in 1966 to study music. He stayed...changed his name to Pablo, and ever since he's lived in Cuba, where he's now a famous jazz musician. Sitting on his Havana rooftop, Pablo tells Steve Paulson this remarkable story.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andrew Woodcock and Chris Strong are meteorologists and moonlight as a band. They tell Anne Strainchamps how the weather finds its way into their lyrics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anthony Doerr wrote a stunning book of short stories, “The Shell Collector.”  Doerr talks with Anne Strainchamps and we hear readings from the title story.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Want a shot of inspiration?  You'll find it at a great high school theater production.  Michael Sokolove tells the story of Lou Volpe, a legendary drama coach in Levittown, PA.

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