Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."
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Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.
Is there a better way to think about money? Bernard Lietaer thinks so. One of the designers of the Euro, he’s now talking up the virtues of alternative currencies. In this EXTENDED interview, Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne tell us why complementary currencies are now flourishing around the world – and how they could help us dodge the next recession.
Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.” He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.
For TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps her only encounters with guns happened in the pages of crime fiction -- usually, stories featuring women. Give her a woman and a gun and she was there for 200 plus pages. Kinsey Milhone, VI Warshawski, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew…She could name dozens of fictional female crime fighters -- but not one real-life woman detective.
That was until she picked up historian Erika Janik’s latest, “Pistols and Petticoats.” It’s the story of how women moved from crime solving in fiction to the real world.
Jonnie Hughes talks about about his book, "On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)."
Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.
Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.
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