Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll’s book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. It has since become one of the best known works in English, captivating readers who follow young Alice as she chases a white rabbit, pink eyed, in a waistco...

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Episode summary: Klezmer music has always been very close to my heart, even as a classical violinist. During the pandemic I attempted to learn Klezmer clarinet, and soon I began collaborating with the great Klezmer(and classical!) violinist Abigale Reisman on her work…

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Episode summary: In the third episode in our series on the Ideas Behind American Elections David and Gary talk about what was maybe the most significant election of all: 1860, when Lincoln became president and the country careened into civil war. How did the newly formed Republican Party break the s...

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Episode summary: Episodio 51: Kitchen gap con Anna Prandoni (Stagione 4)

Episode summary: Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell

Episode summary: Camelids are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe: Europeans overhunted wild vicuña and guanaco and imposed husbandry and breeding practices that decimated llama and alpaca flocks that had been...

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Episode summary: Why new blueprints are needed from asset management to academic excellence.

Episode summary: Understanding the clunky Prop 65 warnings on products

Episode summary: In 1974, musician Connie Converse drove away from home and was never heard from again. Howard Fishman’s book is To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse. Martha Wainwright’s cover of “One By One” is on Vanity of Vanities: A Tribute to Connie Converse....

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Episode summary: In the summer of 1959, Nixon and Khrushchev argued over a washing machine in a backstage kitchen in Moscow, while American Cold War intellectuals gathered in the Poconos to defend Kitsch. Dwight Macdonald, whose theory of mass culture translated too easily into Anti-Americanism, was...

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