Jim Carrier tells Jim Fleming about some of the historic sites of the Civil Right’s Movement and why they needed an outsider to publicize their locations.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Jonathan Rose tells Steve Paulson that some members of the British working class in Victorian England and the early 20th century read the classics and used them as a means of intellectual emancipation.
Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Sherlock Holmes' partner and later his wife.
Walt Disney was greatly influenced by his relationship with his father, and much of his empire has to do with wish-fulfillment and escape.
Journalist John Conroy tells three tales of torture in his book “Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People.” He describes them, and tells Steve Paulson that he believes that anyone is capable of inflicting torture, particularly when directed by a person in a position of authority.
Lizzie Gottlieb has a younger brother with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. She made a film, "Today's Man," about his abortive efforts to get a job and move out of his parents' brownstone in New York.
Matthew Clark produced a compilation CD of Chinese rock and roll. He plays excerpts for Anne Strainchamps and tells her about the various bands and the Chinese rock scene.
Historian Maria Rosa Menocal tells Anne Strainchamps about the Golden Age for European Jews when the Moors established an Islamic state in Spain.
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