Louis Colaianni thinks anyone can be taught to speak Shakespeare. He gives Anne Strainchamps a lesson using the introduction to “Romeo and Juliet.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nora Guthrie is folk singer Woody Guthrie’s daughter and runs the Woody Guthrie Archives. Elizabeth Partridge is the author of “This Land Was Made for You and Me,” Guthrie’s biography.
Joyce Johnson talks with Anne Strainchamps about her book and her relationship with Jack Kerouac.
Robert Fuller is the author of "Wonder" - the first in-depth look at one of humanity's most important emotions.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have been photographing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 30 years. They talk about the conditions in the prison - nicknamed Angola, for the plantation that was formerly on the site - and how they've changed over time. When they see the inmates working in the fields, they say, it looks a lot like slavery.
Lawrence Krauss isn't only a famous physicist; he's also the subject, along with Richard Dawkins, of the documentary film "The Unbelievers." He tells Steve Paulson that science has replaced philosophy and religion as the place to deal with the Big Questions.
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
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