Ryan Lizza breaks down the results from Super Tuesday and looks at how the race for the Republican nomination is shaping up. Today’s installment of the BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a gold coin from the Gupta Empire which dominated South Asia in the 4th and 5th centuries. And then, we’ll find out what the working conditions are like inside an online retail shipping warehouse.
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores when and how many of the great religious images we are familiar with today came into existence.
Read more about the Gold Coin of Kumaragupta.
Ryan Lizza breaks down the results from Super Tuesday and looks at how the race for the Republican nomination is shaping up. Today’s installment of the BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a gold coin from the Gupta Empire which dominated South Asia in the 4th and 5th centuries. And then, we’ll find out what the working conditions are like inside an online retail shipping warehouse.
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Nada Bakri talks about her late husband, reporter Anthony Shadid, who died last month in Syria. And we’ll be joined by Rajiv Chandrasekaran who worked with Shadid while both of them were covering Iraq. Today’s installment of the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a silver plate from Iran that was used to promote Zoroastrianism during reign of the Sansanians. Elaine Sciolino joins us for a Backstory Update on the French presidential campaign and the continuing fall-out from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal.
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores when and how many of the great religious images we are familiar with today came into existence.
Read more about the Silver Plate Showing Shapur II.
Nada Bakri talks about her late husband, reporter Anthony Shadid, who died last month in Syria. And we’ll be joined by Rajiv Chandrasekaran who worked with Shadid while both of them were covering Iraq. Today’s installment of the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a silver plate from Iran that was used to promote Zoroastrianism during reign of the Sansanians. Elaine Sciolino joins us for a Backstory Update on the French presidential campaign and the continuing fall-out from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal.
Comedians Eugene Mirman and Jon Glaser join us to discuss the third season of their Adult Swim show “Delocated.” Jon Glaser plays a masked man on the run from the Russian mafia (while appearing on a reality-TV show)…and Eugene Mirman co-stars as one of the mobsters trying to kill him.
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Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
Comedians Eugene Mirman and Jon Glaser join us to discuss the third season of their Adult Swim show “Delocated.” Jon Glaser plays a masked man on the run from the Russian mafia (while appearing on a reality-TV show)…and Eugene Mirman co-stars as one of the mobsters trying to kill him.
New music from the Neil Cowley Trio and the Bad Plus are on this New Sounds program, bands which on the surface resemble conventional piano trios, but pull liberally from the rock world and everywhere else. We'll listen to both of their most recent releases, along with music from Rachel's, who also have a recent release. Even though they are no longer together, this recording is of previously unavailable material. All that, and more...
