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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years.  She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Austin Grossman is the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" and tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect the comics conventions in his prose.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leslie Jamison bookmarks "Orphans" by Charles D'Ambrosio.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doug Quin is trying to help us tune certain sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the sound of a tree falling in a forest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christine Gallagher tells Steve Paulson that revenge can be a healthier response than stewing over grievances, and shares some of her favorite examples of payback.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pre-Modern hunter and gatherer cultures believed that dying was a kind of trial which didn't begin until you left your physical body and entered the supernatural world, according to sociologist Allan Kellehear. In these cultures, death is not the destruction of the body, but the annihilation of the personality and its transformation into something new.

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