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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jack Sullivan tells Anne Strainchamps about the partnership between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Hermann which resulted in some of the greatest film scores ever written.

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Steve Young talks about his book, "Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals."

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Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein Thomas recalls what it was like growing up with her famous father.

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Ever wonder how we form beliefs in the first place? Journalist Will Storr tried to find out in his book, “The Unpersuadables.” In it, he follows Holocaust deniers, climate change skeptics, and conspiracy theorists to find out how seemingly intelligent people can hold unconventional, even irrational beliefs.

 

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Marc Maron says he was washed up. Career? Over. 

So he set up a microphone in his garage and starting talking with - and sometimes apologizing to - his fellow comedians.

That's when things started turning around.

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Restricting yourself to eight or nine words can be far more complex than you would expect.

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Stephen Cave talks about his book, "Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization."

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James Twitchell tells Jim Fleming that for the first time is history, ordinary people can sample real luxury and we can’t get enough of it.

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