Lectures tagged "Travel & Adventure"


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Belinda Rathbone: Tea with Miss Rose
Belinda Rathbone
December 17, 2009
00:35:31
Belinda Rathbone, co-author of Tea with Miss Rose, talks about the life and times of Rose Nichols, the Bostonian spinster who gathered a regular crowd at her townhouse on Beacon Hill in the 1950s to discuss art, politics, and world affairs over a cup of Hu-Kwa.
Storytelling in the Electronic Era (Part 2)
Maria Tatar
December 2, 2009
00:41:56
Storyteller Odds Bodkin and Harvard folklorist Maria Tatar explore the art of the story in the 21st century. Telling stories is an ancient art, a holdover from the pre-literate human past. How did the advent of the written word affect the art of storytelling and the stories themselves?
Storytelling in the Electronic Era (Part 1)
Maria Tatar
December 2, 2009
00:58:08
Storyteller Odds Bodkin and Harvard folklorist Maria Tatar explore the art of the story in the 21st century. Telling stories is an ancient art, a holdover from the pre-literate human past. How did the advent of the written word affect the art of storytelling and the stories themselves?
Kristin Cashore: Fire
Kristin Cashore
November 24, 2009
00:15:01
Young-adult author Kristin Cashore reads from Fire, her eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2008's Graceling. It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him.
Diary From Great Brewster Island: Girls Night Out in the 1890s
Stephanie Schorow
November 19, 2009
00:36:50
Author Stephanie Schorow explores the lives of four remarkable women who, on a hot July day in 1891, set off for 10 days of "roughing it" on Great Brewster Island and kept a diary of their summer adventure on their "enchanted isle." Now in the collection of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard Univers
Lidia Bastianich and Judith Jones on Cooking
Lidia Bastianich
November 9, 2009
00:51:20
Cooking gurus Lidia Bastianich and Judith Jones discuss their works of literary and culinary arts. In Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, Lidia Bastianich translates recipes from regions across Italy to the American kitchen, and shows the rich variety of Italian cooking.
Rainsford Island: Mercy's Dwelling Place
Elizabeth Carella
November 5, 2009
00:45:39
Curator and photographer Elizabeth Carella shares the colorful history of epidemics, shipwrecks, and daring escapes on Rainsford Island.
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SuperFreakonomics
Stephen Dubner
October 29, 2009
01:01:00
Journalist Stephen Dubner discusses SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.