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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How will we react, the day we hear the news that scientists have found life on another planet?  Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card has dreamed up many first contact scenarios.  His classic science fiction novel, "Ender's Game" is all about the consequences of a first contact gone badly wrong.  He's just published a long-awaited sequel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linguist John McWhorter says all six thousand contemporary languages evolved from a single source and that there’s no such thing as a pure language.

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Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.

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Mark Headley talks about his book, "Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology."

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Days before the launch of his latest project - a multi-media storytelling platform for the public - Jonathan Harris tells Anne Strainchamps about his inspiration and vision for Cowbird.

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Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.

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Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that  he found growing in a country churchyard.

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