Alice Walker: Marked by Tradition
Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated author, poet and activist whose books included novels, collections of short stories, children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her best known no...
15 Loka 202547min
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Fight for Planet Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of 22 novels of speculative and science fiction. The Ministry for the Future is set in the near future in which the world is suffering the disastrous consequences of...
17 Syys 20251h 3min
Tiya Miles: The remarkable history of Ashley’s Sack
In South Carolina in the 1850s, an enslaved woman named Rose gives a simple cotton bag to her daughter Ashley. Ashley is about to be separated from her mother, sold as chattel to the highest bidder. T...
11 Kesä 202552min
Toni Morrison: A Mercy (re-release)
A gem rescued from the archives! We are re-releasing the Toni Morrison episode after cleaning up the audio. Toni Morrison writes about history, slavery, racism, resilience and survival with an unflin...
16 Huhti 20251h 1min
Ivo Daalder: The Future of NATO
Ivo Daalder is a Dutch born American citizen, who became the U.S. representative to NATO from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama and was a foreign policy advisor for his 2008 presidential camp...
12 Maalis 20251h 2min
Kim Wehle: What to Make of the U.S. Constitution?
Super Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. Professor of law, a constitutional scholar, commentator and author Kim Wehle joined the John Adams to lay out exactly what was at stake in the election between Donald T...
12 Helmi 20251h 2min
Karen Joy Fowler: The Family Saga of John Wilkes Booth
It’s April 14th, 1865. The actor John Wilkes Booth pulls a gun and assassinates President Lincoln who is sitting in a balcony of the Ford Theatre in Washington DC. Booth becomes one of the most infamo...
15 Tammi 202555min
