In Angela Tomaski’s debut novel, an old English manor has just been sold and is on the brink of conversion into a hotel. The Infamous Gilberts tells the story of the crumbling building, and the people who once lived there through the objects that inhabit it. In today’s episode, Tomaski joins NPR’s Scott Simon for a conversation about the family at the center of her story – and the secrets held by the story’s narrator.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1519: Seeing Around the Corner
Episode: 1519 Learning to acquire knowledge and create it at the same time. Today, we wonder where knowledge comes from.
Audio Poem of the Day - Dynamic Disks, 1933
By Raymond Antrobus
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Pod Save America - 1115: Why Are Democrats Afraid of Power?
Marc J. Dunkelman, author of "Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress — and How to Bring It Back," stops by the studio to talk to Lovett about how Democrats — once they regain power — can make government work again. Together they dive into the ways progressive governance changed from the New Deal to today, the influence of Robert Caro's polemic "The Power Broker" on a generation of public employees, and why they're both hopeful that Democrats will be able to find their way out of the darkness and learn to do big things again.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1518: Looking for Reality
Episode: 1518 A concern about computers and the redefinition of reality. Today, we try to tell fact from fiction.
Audio Poem of the Day - I Have Slept in Many Places
By Denise Duhamel
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1517: A Tripartite Bridge
Episode: 1517 The very odd bridge that Roebling almost built. Today, a strange bridge.
More or Less - Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
Could European Nato members use their large holdings of US shares and bonds to put pressure on America? It’s a question that some in Europe found themselves asking as the geopolitical crisis over Greenland escalated and leaders desperately tried to think of ways to dissuade Donald Trump. It is true that trillions of dollars of American financial assets are held in Europe. But the devil, as ever, is in the detail. Tim Harford talks to Toby Nangle, a journalist with the Financial Times, to drill down into the numbers.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Nathan Gower Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: James Beard
Audio Poem of the Day - Perspective
By Amy King
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Praying in Jerusalem and Minneapolis
A quiet revolution is underway on the Temple Mount, where for six decades Jews have been forbidden to pray due to the rules established by a Muslim authority with dominion over the Dome of the Rock mosque—rules allowed to stand by the Israeli government. What changed and why is this so important? And why are the grounds for arresting former CNN anchor Don Lemon for participating in the disruption of a church service in Minneapolis stronger than you might think? Give a listen.
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