Downwind
Tuesday, we’re talking about the effects of nuclear weapons on people who lived near uranium mines and downwind from testing sites during and after the ...
View ArticleThe Work of the Dead
Why is it that we care for the dead? The philosopher Diogenes suggested that his corpse simply be tossed over the city wall, but it’s an idea that seems...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Notes on Blindness
Thursday, we begin our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival with the story of John Hull. Hull went blind in 1983 and he knew that if he didn’t try to...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Maya Angelou and Still I Rise
Friday, we’re talking about the life of poet and activist Maya Angelou. A new documentary premiering at Sundance tells the story of Angelou’s journey...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Audrie & Daisy
Monday, we continue our Sundance coverage with AUDRIE & DAISY. The two teen girls were raped and this documentary examines the fallout of shaming an...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Kate Plays Christine
Filmmaker Robert Greene thought for years about a documentary on Christine Chubbuck, a Florida news reporter who committed suicide on live television in...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Holy Hell
Filmmaker Will Allen was 22 when he joined a community of people led by a man named Michel. Allen says at first he seemed elegant and smart and he...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Eat That Question
Frank Zappa wasn’t just a musician, bandleader, and self-taught composer who released more than 60 albums in less than three decades. He was also a pass...
View ArticleSundance 2016: Nuts!
Friday, we wrap up our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival with a true story of desperation, scams, and goat testicles. Director Penny Lane joins us...
View ArticleSpinster
Journalist Kate Bolick likes the word "spinster," though she wants to redefine it. She says that until recently there have been two stereotypes of unma...
View ArticleLGBT Suicide and the LDS Church
Last week, an advocacy group made headlines when they said there’s been a startling increase in suicides among LGBT Mormon youth. They blamed LDS Church...
View ArticleThrough the Lens: Autism in Love
Thursday, we continue our Through the Lens series with Matt Fuller and Carolina Groppa's documentary film about the challenges of finding love. Finding...
View ArticleThe Road Not Taken
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” Those are the first words to Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken." One hundred years after their public...
View ArticleExtreme Altruists
How far do you go to honor the Golden Rule, to “do unto others”? Chances are you don’t go nearly as far as the people profiled in journalist Larissa...
View ArticleThe History of the Humble Pig
The history of the domestic pig is a tale of both love and loathing. We cherish pigs for the delicious meat they supply. But, as an animals that eats an...
View ArticleUtah's Shared Air Pollution Problem
Nearly every winter, Utah’s dense metropolitan area suffers from choking air pollution. You may want to blame others like industry or those neighbors w...
View ArticleHow to Be a Tudor
To understand how our forebears lived, of course you’ll read period records, diaries and literature. There would still be things you wouldn’t fully...
View ArticleThe Black Panthers
A new revolutionary culture was emerging in the 1960s, and for a short period of time the Black Panther Party was the vanguard of that change. Bold, out...
View ArticleThe Hour of Peril
Monday, we're telling the astonishing story of a plot to kill Abraham Lincoln on the way to his first inaugural. Our guest is biographer Daniel...
View ArticleDrinking in America
Historian Susan Cheever says that America has always oscillated between temperance and drunkenness, but that alcohol often gets left out of the story. ...
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