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Interviewer and journalist Steve Scher holds in-depth conversations with authors, thinkers and artists about social. scientific and cultural issues. Series 2 of the podcast is supported by T...
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At Length with Alva Noë
Baseball inspires poets and scribes to wax on about some essential baseball-ness that reflects larger values. Maybe baseball is not simply a...
At Length with Charles Fishman, "One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us To The Moon."
We think of the astronauts, those brave people who took a ride on a giant rocket ship into the unknown on their way to the moon. Charles Fis...
At Length with Neal Stephenson, "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell"
What will the digital world of the future be like? Will humans, or our eternally humming digital simulacra, live in heaven or hell?
At Length with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us."
Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has looked at domestic violence around the world in her new book “ No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know Ab...
At Length with Dr. Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health."
health, according to Dr. Sandro Galea, isn’t going to actually occur, for individuals or societies, if we stay focused at that level of atte...
At Length with Mary Norris, author of "Greek To Me: Adventures of The Comma Queen
After a career of carefully editing so many accomplished writers, language and punctuation remain a joy to Marry Norris, renowned New Yorker...
Copy of At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy
A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,”...
At Length with Hedrick Smith, Winning Back Our Democracy
A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,”...
At Length with Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt talks about scholarship, teaching story to psychiatry residents and her new book about memory and time in her new novel, “Memo...
At Length with Frans De Waal
“Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell us About Ourselves” by Frans De Waal raises a troubling question that challenges humans...
At Length with Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan served as President Obama’s Secretary of Education. His assessment of the nation’s efforts to educate children and of his own te...
At Length with Octavio Solis, "Retablos."
Octavio Solis is an award-winning working playwright immersed in the culture and politics of our time. His plays tell the stories of rural A...
At Length with Marie Wong Part 2
An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life...
At Length with Marie Wong on Seattle's International District
An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life...
At Length with Rob Reich on the Failures of Philanthropy
Through their wealth, philanthropists influence society. Is that fair? As it is currently set-up, Rob Reich says it isn’t. Reich (pronounced...
At Length with Alex Rosenblat in Uberland
Uber has disrupted the taxi industry around the world. But its way of doing business may be reshaping other industries. Alex Rosenblat is a...
Peter Sagal At Length
Peter Sagal, the very funny host of NPR’s News quiz “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” has written a serious and funny book about his attraction to...
Chris Hedges At Length
Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Truthdig columnist and RT TV talk show host Chris Hedges reports on what he sees as a declining empire, w...
David Reich At Length: Who We Are and How We Got Here
The origins of humanity have become less uncertain as scientists like David Reich and his colleagues extract ancient DNA from the bones of o...