Were the lives lived offstage in the time of Shakespeare as intriguing as the legendary characters in his plays? This hour we’ll discover life inside London’s famous 16th-century playhouses with Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London. He’s in town for the Boshell Family Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Do you know how to savor a perfect peach or decode the wine list at an upscale restaurant? Have you eaten street food in a strange new city and lived to tell the tale? We’ll talk this hour with Pim Techamuanvivit, author of “The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy” (Chronicle, 2009).
What is the current state of women’s healthcare in America? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States. She is in town to deliver the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture at SMU.
How should we as individuals handle today’s most controversial issues? We’ll spend this hour with Harvard Professor of Government and political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, author of the new book “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
What was it like to be born into a family of declining prominence and fading glamour? We’ll talk this hour with New Yorker writer Tad Friend, whose new memoir is “Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor” (Little, Brown and Company, 2009).
What makes a candidate want to be the next governor of Texas? We’ll talk this hour with the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Tom Schieffer, about state politics and his gubernatorial candidacy.
If you had barely escaped the Nazis during World War II, could anything make you go back? We’ll talk with Patrick K. O’Donnell, military historian and author of the new book, “They Dared Return: The Untold Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany” (De Capo, 2009).
Have you ever been guilty of abusing the English language? Find out in this two-hour special with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner, author of “A Dictionary of Modern American Usage” (3rd Edition. Oxford, 2009).
Who knew that Bach composed music in prison, or that Wagner had a thing for women’s underwear? We’ll talk this hour with Elizabeth Lunday, author of the new book “Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World’s Musical Masters” (Quirk Books, 2009).
How is teenage dating different today than when you were in high school? We’ll spend this hour with Sujata Dand, producer of the new documentary “Boyfriends,” premiering tonight on KERA, channel 13.
