Friday November 25 The singer-songwriter took an unusual route to becoming a performer. She tells us how she got started, how to get what you want in the music business and how an extraordinary range of influences continue to inspire her Continue reading… Thursday November 24 As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, the history professor tells us why there's a lot more to the story of colonists and Native Americans than the tale of the first Thanksgiving taught in school Continue reading… Wednesday November 23 As police confront Occupy protesters, the history professor and co-editor of Dissent magazine looks back at US leftist movements from abolitionism to Vietnam to see where OWS came from and what it can learn from the past Continue reading… Tuesday November 22 The best sci-fi explores humanity’s anxieties and concerns and is in some sense about the future. But it doesn’t try to predict what’s to come. The literature professor and sci-fi writer recommends five classics of the genre Continue reading… Monday November 21 The author, who’s lived in Italy for 30 years, takes us off the beaten track through humour, satire and social history to recommend five richly rewarding works of Italian fiction Continue reading… Sunday November 20 We plunder the ocean for food, dump our waste in it, respect its wildlife less than land-based creatures. Why? Is it a case of "out of sight, out of mind"? A marine biologist tells us what's down there and what we're doing to it Continue reading… | 
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