Audio

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robyn Meredith talks with Steve Paulson about China's embrace of capitalism and the Indian advances in providing telephone support services.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wesley Stace has a new novel, "Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Photographer William Christenberry takes pictures of simple buildings in forgotten corners of his home place of Hale County, Alabama, year after year to document how they change over time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ruth Padel is an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendent of Charles Darwin. She’s now written “Darwin: A Life in Poems,” having grown up hearing stories about her famous ancestor.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sharon Salzberg tells Steve Paulson that you don’t have to believe in God to have faith and that it should be about trust, not obedience.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brendan Koerner talks about his book, "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Wolfe talks with Steve Paulson, and explains why he's so fascinated by the connection between sex and social status.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One place that new music’s finding audiences is in galleries and museum. One piece in particular has won the hearts of people across the world. It’s called Forty Part Motet.  Sound artist Janet Cardiff uses 40 speakers to play "Spem in Allium," a 40-part Renaissance motet written by Thomas Tallis.   Think of it as Renaissance surround-sound.

Pages

Subscribe to Audio