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The Wife of Bath from <a href="https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/2838/">The Ellesmere Manuscript</a>, one of the earliest manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's <em>The Canterbury Tales.</em>

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A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

February 04, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby

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Activist Alice Wong reflects on 'The Year of the Tiger' and her hopes for 2023

In the Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong shares pieces of her story and experience as a disabled Asian American through a collection of essays, interviews, photos and illustrations.

February 04, 2023
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  • Thomas Lu
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Novelist Julie Otsuka draws on her own family history in 'The Swimmers'

Otsuka has recently been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Excellence for her novel about a Japanese American woman who's lost much of her memory to dementia. Originally broadcast Feb. 22, 2022.

February 03, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, DRC, on Oct. 12, 2022.

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How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."

February 01, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
As soda consumption has dropped in the West, companies are making an effort to woo new customers in other places. This Coke bottle ad is in Mozambique.

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  • Global Health

Junk food companies say they're trying to do good. A new book raises doubts

As the marketing of soda and fast food ramps up around the world, the companies involved forge partnerships to help the poor. The new book 'Junk Food Politics' casts a critical eye at their efforts.

February 01, 2023
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  • Pien Huang
"I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," says neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. "I suddenly felt much less certain about how I'd been [as a doctor], how I'd handled patients, how I'd spoken to them."

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After cancer diagnosis, a neurosurgeon sees life, death and his career in a new way

Dr. Henry Marsh felt comfortable in hospitals — until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. "I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," he says. His book is And Finally.

January 30, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
The Texas and the ATF flags fly at half staff April 23, 1993, over the only structure left standing after a fire destroyed the the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on April 19.

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30 years after the siege, 'Waco' examines what led to the catastrophe

Writer Jeff Guinn draws on new interviews with federal agents and surviving Branch Davidians in his account of the confrontation, which left scores of people dead, including more than 20 children.

January 25, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
Ilyon Woo, the author of <em>Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom.</em>

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Ilyon Woo's new book explores the relentless pursuit of freedom

In "Master Slave Husband Wife," Ilyon Woo describes the story of Ellen and William Craft escaping slavery.

January 24, 2023
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  • Reena Advani
These workers were promised green cards following Hurricane Katrina. Instead they were issued temporary visas that bound them to a single employer.

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Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."

January 23, 2023
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  • Dave Davies

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After 30+ years, 'The Stinky Cheese Man' is aging well

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith created The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales in 1992. They remember their work on the classic children's book and how their partnership began.

January 22, 2023
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  • Samantha Balaban
Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Lévy's new graphic novel <em>Queenie: Godmother of Harlem</em> revives the forgotten story of Harlem mob boss Stephanie Saint Clair AKA Queenie in the form of a mafia thriller.

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New graphic novel explores the life of 'Queenie,' Harlem Renaissance mob boss

Queenie: Godmother of Harlem tells the overlooked story of Stephanie Saint Clair, or "Queenie," a Black female mob boss and fashion icon who lived during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.

January 22, 2023
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  • Seyma Bayram

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Is the U.S. government designating too many documents as 'classified'?

Historian Matthew Connelly says government records are marked as classified three times every second — and many of them will never be declassified. His new book is The Declassification Engine.

January 19, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
GPB News NPR

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The U.S. faces 'unprecedented uncertainty' regarding abortion law, legal scholar says

Roe author Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at the very beginning of something very confusing."

January 18, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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'Master Slave Husband Wife' details a couple's journey from slavery to freedom

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Ilyon Woo about her new book — Master Slave Husband Wife — which details the account of Ellen and William Craft escaping slavery.

January 18, 2023
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Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key

Imani Perry says the South can be seen as an "origin point" for the way the nation operates. Her book South to America traces the steps of an enslaved ancestor. Originally broadcast Jan. 25, 2022.

January 16, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
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