Given To Fly
December 3, 2014This hour, we’ll talk to the director of the documentary Pelican Dreams about what the film has to say about our relationship to the natural world and how our interaction with it can be both helpful and harmful.
This hour, we’ll talk to the director of the documentary Pelican Dreams about what the film has to say about our relationship to the natural world and how our interaction with it can be both helpful and harmful.
This hour, we’ll find out what it was really like to lace up a corset, spoon feed a child opium and do your laundry on a stove with Ruth Goodman. She writes about her experience living like a 19th Century Brit in How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
We’ll talk this hour about a story of survival in a strange land with Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life.
This hour, we’ll talk about the real-life world of archaeology – and the charge its practitioners get out of tiny discoveries – with the author of Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble.
This hour, we’ll learn about how Laura Ingalls Wilder’s personal encounters with the American frontier informed those stories with Pamela Smith Hill, editor of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography.
This hour, we’ll talk about the intersection of health care and the law with Professor Nathan Cortez of SMU’s Dedman School of Law; Laura Reilly O’Hara of Strasburger & Price, LLP; and KERA health and science reporter Lauren Silverman.
We’ll talk this hour with the producers of the American RadioWorks documentary The New Face of College.
Women of color are underrepresented in medicine. This hour, we’ll find out about efforts to encourage minority women to pursue medical careers with the founder of Artemis Medical Society.
This hour, we’ll talk about how the way we think about pain has changed through the centuries with the author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers.
We’ll talk this hour about Bill Cosby’s lasting impact on popular culture with the author of Cosby: His Life and Times.