Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, co-produced “Beckett on Film.” He talks about the challenges of turning 19 of Samuel Beckett’s plays into films.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Historian Rebecca Spang tells Judith Strasser that "restaurant" originally meant a cup of broth and explains how it evolved into the culinary paradise we know today.
Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.
Michael Witzel is the author of “The American Diner.” He talks about the way Hollywood makes use of the diner.
Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?
Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.
Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.
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