Episode summary: Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. The Lost Words, which she wrote with Robert Macfarlane, won the 2019 Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration, and she was nominated for the same award in 2021 for The Unwinding, her ‘book for dreamers’. FEATHER, LEAF, BARK & ST...

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Episode summary: A Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, became the best-known work of the German composer Max Bruch. Originally written in 1866 it went through many revisions before finally being completed in 1867. It was performed extensively but having sold both the publishing and the manuscript B...

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Episode summary: In 1982, forensic dentists examined the teeth of thousands of sailors stationed on an aircraft carrier called the USS Carl Vinson in Newport News, Virginia. It’s been called “the largest dental dragnet likely in U.S. history.” Chris Fabricant’s book is Junk Science and the American...

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Episode summary: Who Rules Porn? From Hot Money

Episode summary: The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision has overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked the right to abortion, a Constitutionally guaranteed right we have had for about 50 years. What happens now?

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Episode summary: In “Bread and Friends,” the final episode in her five-part series for Gravy, producer Irina Zhorov meets Camille Cogswell and Drew DiTomo in the final stages of preparation to open their new bakery. They hope that Walnut Family Bakery will be a…

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Episode summary: The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.

Episode summary: When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job would be “human misery.” She says she remembers thinking, “If there’s one person in the justice system who could do something about human misery, surely, it’s the powerful prosecutor.” Af...

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Episode summary: In “Making That Dough,” the fourth episode in her five-part series for Gravy, producer Irina Zhorov explores the business of cottage bakeries—and how small-scale bakers make amazing loaves out of home kitchens and converted garages….

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Episode summary: Ne Me Quitte Pas is a song about begging someone not to go; of promising the world to them, if they’ll only stay. From Haiti to New York, Provence to Glasgow… in versions by Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield and Scott Walker… we hear stories of what Jacques Brel’s song has meant to peo...

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