Jun 11, 2023
Asylum: Author Umberto Nicola Nicoletti,
Introduction by Filippo Grandi
Claudia Cragg speaks here with author, Umberto Nicola Nicoletti, about his fine-art book Asylum. We discusses the phenomenon of LGBTIQ+ refugees, asylum seekers, and those subject to discrimination in their home countries based on their...
Aug 31, 2022
@claudiacragg (DM Twitter) speaks here with Samuel J Redman @samueljredman about his new book, A Short History of Crisis and Resilience.
The work, Professor Redman says, celebrates as he sees it the resilience of American - and it must be said many worldwide - cultural institutions in the face of nationl crises...
Feb 3, 2022
In this repost of a previous interview, Professor Antony Beevor speaks here with Claudia Cragg about his book 'D Day, The Battle for Normandy'.
It is, horribly, more relevant today than it should be.
Why do 'those in power' constantly push for war, and what about the aftermath, the 'cleanup' with the so-called...
Jan 20, 2022
In view of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics (officially the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022) this interview is a repost.
In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled...
Jan 6, 2022
What better way to jump into 2022 than with a boost from a rebroadcast of our Maya Angelou interview?
This month the US Mint will start shipping quarters featuring Angelou, the first black woman to ever grace the coin. The program was conceived in 2017 and was officially signed into law in 2020. Potential honorees were...