What It Takes is a podcast series featuring intimate, revealing conversations with towering figures in almost every field: music, science, sports, pol...
Athol Fugard
Hailed as the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world, South Africa's Athol Fugard has won international praise for creating theater ...
Carole King
The most successful and admired female songwriter in the history of pop music, Carole King proves that one woman alone at the piano can be more powerf...
Natasha Trethewey
This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the position in 1985. ...
Louise Glück (SD)
Louise Glück is “a strong and haunting presence” among America’s greatest living poets. Her work is distinguished by a rare ability to deploy ostensib...
Jackson Browne Live Performance (SD)
With the release of his debut album in 1972, Jackson Browne joined the elite rank of American singer-songwriters who shaped the musical ethos of an er...
Hal David Interview
For over 60 years, Hal David (1921-2012) wrote the words America loves to sing. His career spanned the decades from the swing era to the age of hip-ho...
Rick Atkinson 2010 - Part 1
America's greatest living chronicler of men at war, Rick Atkinson draws on an intimate knowledge of the soldier's life. The son of a career army offic...
Rick Atkinson 2010 - Part 2
America's greatest living chronicler of men at war, Rick Atkinson draws on an intimate knowledge of the soldier's life. The son of a career army offic...