Phillip Pullman tells Steve Paulson that he thinks the process of how children develop into adult, moral people is the most interesting subject there is.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Public Radio veteran producer Jay Allison has a new venture - a website called Transom. He prepared this sound portrait on artists and rejection.
Rachel Pastan reads from and talks with Steve Paulson about her novel "Lady of the Snakes." The book concerns a young professor of 19th century Russian literature confronted with combining her professional life and motherhood.
<p>9/11 REMEMBERED: Philippe Petit spent years planning his illegal 1974 performance at the World Trade Center where he tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers. Petit looks back at the event and talks about what the destruction of the Towers meant for him.</p>
Michael Mandelbaum talks with Jim Fleming about the similarities between sports and warfare and religion.
Some countries are still struggling for international recognition. Photographer Narayan Mahon talks about his “Lands in Limbo” project – photographs that show what happens to the citizens of a nation that’s denied UN membership.
Jess Winfield was one of the original members of "The Reduced Shakespeare Company." He's now a novelist and talks with Jim Fleming about "My Name is Will: a Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare."
Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
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