Nick Hitchon is one of the participants in Michael Apted's Seven Up series of documentaries that checks in on the lives of ordinary people every seven years.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Hoffman is the author of “Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.” Hoffman tells Jim Fleming that Santos-Dumont’s craft (which he tethered to a light-post outside Maxim’s while he had dinner) was a motorized hot air balloon.
Jason Cohen (with Steve Okazaki) made the wrenching documentary “Black Tar Heroin.” The film follows the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco.
Lauren Myracle has written three books for young adults, including “ttyl.” The book is named for an abbreviation used in Instant Messaging to mean “talk to you later.”
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”
Ginger Strand talks about her book, "Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate."
You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.
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