Ayana Johnson: We Can Do This!
A clarion call to those of us acutely aware of the peril facing our planet yet feel powerless to help save it. Ayana Johnson urges us to stop fretting about what “I” can do and instead think about wha...
24 Sep 202440min
Frank Barry: Taking the Lincoln Highway to America
Escaping the Covid lockdown in 2020 he and his wife Laurel set out in an RV to travel across America along the Lincoln Highway – a road more aspirational than real. But with Abraham Lincoln’s spirit a...
17 Sep 202437min
Randy Fertel: Improv Everywhere
Is improvisation at the heart of Western culture — music, art, literature, politics, even artificial intelligence? Author Randy Fertel thinks so. And he warns that as much as it’s a positive force, t...
10 Sep 202437min
Roger Rosenblatt: Wounds and Other Blessings
Alan talks with Roger Rosenblatt about his new book “A Steinway on the beach.” It explores that great mystery of how being wounded—emotionally or physically—is both an inescapable part of life and a c...
3 Sep 202435min
Lisa Kaltenegger: Alien Hunter
She’s a pioneer in figuring out how we might tell if any of the trillions of planets out there in the galaxy might harbor life – and if so, what kind of life. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....
27 Aug 202437min
Mark Rank: As Luck Would Have It
Chance events not only change lives, they can change history – as when a soviet sailor’s briefly stuck foot prevented a potential nuclear catastrophe. You can’t predict when luck, good or bad, will in...
20 Aug 202440min
Anne Curzan: Say What? Says Who?
Over time, the meaning of words often changes. The history of these changes suggests they're inevitable and that some of us (like our host) could be a little more relaxed about it and a little less pe...
13 Aug 202440min
Mo Rocca: Late Comebacks
Older people, says Mo Rocca, have better stories. And he tells many of them – stories of people as different as Colonel Sanders and Henri Matisse – in his new book Roctogenarians – older people who ev...
6 Aug 202438min
