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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jon Katz’ latest book is “The New Work of Dogs.”  Katz says that Americans are forgetting their pets’ true natures and shouldn’t expect them to be children with fur.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marjane Satrapi talks about the intimate lives of women in Iran and the conflicts created around the issue of sexuality by patriarchy and fundamentalist Islam.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Allen Long is a former dope-smuggler and the subject of Robert Sabbag’s book “Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail.”  Anne Strainchamps interviewed them a week apart. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies.  Risk takers.  But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world.  Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. 

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