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Discussing the book "Family web: a story of India" with the author Sarah Hobson.
Discussing the book "Edgar Snow's China" with the author Lois Wheeler Snow.
Discussing the book "Blue highways: a journey into America" with William Least Heat Moon.
Discussing the book "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" and interviewing the author Professor Daniel Boorstin.
Discussing the book "Fanny Wright: rebel in America" with the author Celia Morris Eckhardt.
Ann Banks discusses her book First Person America, published in November 1980, which documents over 80 oral histories from the time of the Federal Writers' Project, which was part of Works Progress Administration.
Alfred McCoy discusses the history of heroin trafficking within the context of American foreign policy.
Alfred McCoy discusses the history of heroin trafficking within the context of American foreign policy.
Author, professor, and John Keats biographer, Aileen Ward, discusses and reads from the biography “John Keats: The Making of a Poet.” Ward discusses Keats’ schooling, his relationship with Fanny Brawne, and Keats’ work in comparison to his contemporaries such as Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ward reads Keats’ 1818 poem entitled “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.” Studs plays a recording of Ralph Richardson reading Keats’ 1819 poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”