Oct 13th, 2004 · Brenda Russell spent four years working on her latest album, Between the Sun and the Moon and the songs for the musical version of The Color Purple, currently playing at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Russell about the challenge of doing both projects.
Oct 5th, 2004 · Some public libraries have gone from stuffy to swanky with several construction and renovation projects from Seattle to Grand Rapids. NPR's Renee Montagne takes a look at the newest library to join the ranks, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Oct 1st, 2004 · Jones is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter. The Tony-Award winning actor took just one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in Star Wars. That performance lead to many commercial voice-over projects. There's a new Star Wars trilogy on DVD. This show was originally broadcast on Sept. 15, 1993.
Sep 28th, 2004 · Gretchen Berland uses experience from her previous career of making documentaries to compose video projects on health-care topics. She has won a $500,000 "genius award" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Sep 14th, 2004 · NPR's Melissa Block talks with Sam Swope, author of I Am a Pencil, a book based on his work with students from 21 countries on creative writing projects. It started as a 10-day writing workshop with Queens third graders and became a three-year project.