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The Allusionist: A Novel Remedy
When you're feeling unwell, what's the book you read to make yourself feel better? And why does it work? Clinical psychologist Jane Gregory explains why she sometimes prescribes novel-reading to her patients; and academic Guy Cuthbertson tells how post-WW1 Britain was soothed by Agatha Christie's murder mysteries.
Back in 2008 Facebook began writing a document. It was a constitution of sorts, laying out what could and what couldn’t be posted on the site. Back then, the rules were simple, outlawing nudity and gore. Today, they’re anything but.
How do you define hate speech? Where’s the line between a joke and an attack? How much butt is too much butt? Facebook has answered these questions. And from these answers they’ve written a rulebook that all 2.2 billion of us are expected to follow. Today, we explore that rulebook. We dive into its details and untangle its logic. All the while wondering what does this mean for the future of free speech?
Lost and Found Sound and Voices of the Dust Bowl
As The Kitchen Sisters prepare to launch their new series The Keepers, about activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors, historians and the collections they keep, they re-visit their own “accidental archive” of recordings amassed over the years.
And Voices from the Dust Bowl, produced by Peabody Award winning producer Barrett Golding for the Lost & Found Sound series.
In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of people from Oklahoma and Arkansas traveled to California, fleeing the dust storms and poverty of the Depression.
Pacifica Radio Archives: Van Morrison Interview (1971)
An interview with Van Morrison from 1971 recorded by Pacifica Radio KPFA producer Dan McCloskey.
Van Morrison had just moved out West after spending many years in New York. He relocated to Marin County just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. While he was recording his Tupelo Honey record in San Francisco. Pacifica Radio’s Dan McCloskey interviewed Van Morrison in his Fairfax California home…
As you will hear, the topics of conversation include growing up in Belfast Ireland, his early musical influences and successes with the band THEM, and his emergence as a leading singer songwriter in his solo career.
You’ll also hear many tracks from all of his records up to the point of this interview including some rare live tracks.
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