Think features in-depth interviews with compelling guests, covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and trends to food and wine, travel, adventure and entertainment.
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Who are today’s real adventure heroes? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Jenkins whose current National Geographic cover story “Yosemite’s Superclimbers” profiles a few athletes who are pushing the climbing envelope.
Who is Yoshi Kojima? We’ll find out this hour as we explore the lucrative and obscure world of illegal butterfly trafficking with journalist Jessica Speart.
Until Mesquite ventriloquist Terry Fator won the $1 million grand prize on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, ventriloquism may have seemed like a vaudeville act of yesteryear. Mark Goffman pulls back the curtain on the big time ventriloquism industry.
How did Mexico gain its independence in 1910 and how did the revolution transform the country and its relationships with the United States and the rest of the world?
How do our beliefs about language affect our identities and impressions of others? We’ll spend this hour with Robert Lane Greene, international correspondent for The Economist and author of the book “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, …
What does it take to go the distance when the distance is over 3,000 miles? We’ll talk this hour with Marshall Ulrich who recounts his incredible experiences in the new book “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, …
One year later, what do we know about the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the effort to plug the well? We’ll talk this hour with Joel Achenbach, staff writer for The Washington Post and author …
