Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.
Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.”
John Hasse gives Jim Fleming several examples of patriotic music and talks about the various ways they’ve been used. They explore some suggested alternatives to the national anthem.
Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.
Linda Lear tells Jim Fleming that the creator of Peter Rabbit could have been a scientist.
Marita Golden tells Jim Fleming about the pernicious influence of “colorism” within the Black community.
Michael Mandelbaum talks with Jim Fleming about the similarities between sports and warfare and religion.
Can meditating for 10 days change your life? It has for dozens of inmates at a maximum security prison in Alabama who signed up for a grueling, intensive course of Vapassana meditation. Jenny Phillips tells the story in her documentary film "The Dhamma Brothers."
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