A Voice For Human Rights

Human rights activist Harry Wu spent 19 years in a Chinese labor camp for speaking out against the nation’s Communist party. We’ll talk to him about his experiences in the camp and what he’d like to see from his native land ahead of his lecture tonight at the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance.

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Given To Fly

This hour, we’ll talk to the director of the documentary Pelican Dreams about what the film has to say about our relationship to the natural world and how our interaction with it can be both helpful and harmful.

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How To Be A Victorian

This hour, we’ll find out what it was really like to lace up a corset, spoon feed a child opium and do your laundry on a stove with Ruth Goodman. She writes about her experience living like a 19th Century Brit in How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

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A Job You Can Dig

This hour, we’ll talk about the real-life world of archaeology – and the charge its practitioners get out of tiny discoveries – with the author of Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble.

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Immunization Nation

We’ll talk this hour about how politics and social concerns have directed medical policy with Emory University assistant history professor Elena Conis. Her new book is Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization

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