Christine Yano tells Steve Paulson about Japanese “enka” music – songs that are intended to make listeners and performers cry.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Scott Carrier is a Peabody award winning radio journalist who takes the time to really interview and listen to folks other journalist tend to not take seriously. Like those men in Oregon who are occupying federal land. Anne Strainchamps asked Scott what the men there were like.
Burkhard Bilger tells Steve Paulson how to catch catfish with your bare hands; describes the delights of eating squirrel brains; and chronicles the exploits of some Southern marbles champions - the Rolly Holers.
Film critic David Edelstein talks with Jim Fleming about angels in the movies, and we hear lots of examples.
An Iraq War veteran struggles with PTSD and addiction. What's it really like coming home from war?
With digital data streaming online, how do you make sense of it all? Data journalist David McCandless says, make it beautiful.
Want to see some of McCandless's visualizations? Take a look!
NPR religion reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a practicing Christian who interviewed mystics, skeptics and a wide range of scientists to see if her faith could really stand up to the latest scientific research.
Deborah Scranton, director of "The War Tapes," tells Jim Fleming that she got volunteers from the New Hampshire National Guard to record their experiences in combat in Iraq for one year.
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