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The Next Big Thing Archive
March 2005
The Devil Incarnate
Friday, March 25, 2005
Host Dean Olsher bakes with Cake Bible author and consummate perfectionist Rose Levy Beranbaum. Former residents of the Swift River Valley in Massachusetts describe life before and after their home towns were replaced by drinking water. Philip and Elena Lister recall the conviction with which their daughter Liza lived and died. Also, music this week from Icelandic singer-songwriter Emiliana Torrini.
From Darkness into Light
Friday, March 18, 2005
We meet two nuns who have chosen the traveling circus as their ministry, and a woman who has made human hair the object of her life’s work. Also, archival sounds from Coney Island and from Alan Lomax’s unfinished Global Jukebox project. And stories from families who have chosen to bury their own dead.
Sitting at the Crossroads of History
Friday, March 11, 2005
Conversation about revolution with sociologist Andrew Arato, scenes from a war-torn childhood in Northern Ireland. a musical ruckus with The Tiptons, and a creepy crawly investigation with entomologist Betty Faber.
This Is What It's Like to Be Human
Friday, March 04, 2005
The story of a secret, uncovered by four siblings, in new fiction from novelist Meg Wolitzer. Music from the Warsaw Village Band. A torrent of compliments from a complete stranger. And, finally, about as clear an explanation as you're going to get for Einstein's special theory of relativity.
