Jane Goodall is the name best known in the world when you talk about chimpanzees.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Our intern, Nayantara Mukherji, grew up in Bombay India, and all summer long, she’s been telling us stories about the unusual interactions she’s had with her neighbors there. Like this one – the case of the disappearing cat.
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
Michael Chabon wrote “Wonder Boys,” the source for the popular Michael Douglas film, and won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay.” Now he’s written a children’s book, “Summerland.”
Kaari Pitkin produces Radio Rookies, New York's Peabody Award winning radio project for teenagers. She and one of the Rookies, Jaimita Haskell, tell Jim Fleming about the project.
John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
Lynn Peril is the author of “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.” She tells Steve Paulson that an idealized feminine identity was marketed to women to get them to buy all sorts of things, from beauty products to toys.
P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography."
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