Audio

The Public Eye
Lee Congdon - George Kennan: A Writing Life

Inquiry
Daniel J. Levitin - The Word in Six Songs: HOW THE MUSICAL BRAIN CREATED HUMAN NATURE

PROFESSOR DANIEL J. LEVITIN, who runs the LABORATORY FOR MUSIC PERCEPTION, COGNITION AND EXPERTISE at McGill University returns to Inquiry to talk about his latest wild and fascinating book THE WORLD IN SIX SONGS: HOW THE MUSICAL BRAIN CREATED HUMAN NATURE. It is Professor Levitin’s belief that music and song may have come before human language, and that song passes down information in human society.

Inquiry
John Hanson Mitchell - The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston

Tonight we speak with award-winning author and editor JOHN HANSON MITCHELL about the natural history of Beantown. From the Pleistocene glaciers and the coming of the Paleo-Indians to the creation of the Emerald Necklace, the dark days of the “New Boston” and finally the re-greening of the city, Mitchell has written a complex but thoroughly enjoyable account of the green spaces of this grand city.

LOVE, ART AND SCANDAL IN THE INTERSECTING WORLDS OF EMILY DICKINSON, MARK TWAIN, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE.

The Public Eye
Eric Maddox - Mission: Black List #1

Everyone has seen the footage: a heavily bearded Saddam Hussein
blinking under the bright lights of infantry cameras, dazed to find
himself in U.S. Army custody. Yet while the breaking news was broadcast
around the world, the story of the remarkable events leading up to that
moment on December 13, 2003, has never before been fully told. Mission: Black List #1
offers the complete, behind-the-scenes account of the search for Saddam
Hussein, as related by the Army interrogator whose individual courage
and sheer determination made the capture possible.

The Business Beat
Brian Barlow

TELL ME WHERE IT HURTS: A DAY OF HUMOR, HEALING AND HOPE IN MY LIFE AS AN ANIMAL SURGEON

The Business Beat
Nancy Cahalen

The Public Eye
Harold Holzer

SPIRAL JETTA: A ROAD TRIP THROUGH THE LAND ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST