Reverbiage: Stories from NPR tagged 'darkness'

Mary Chapin Carpenter's Christmas Special

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:54:00 EST

A venerable and popular country-folk singer, Carpenter recently made a foray into holiday music, releasing an album of traditional and original Christmas music titled Come Darkness, Come Light. She plays holiday tunes in a session from WXPN.

Musician Jorge Drexler Explores the 'Darkness'

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:20:00 EST

In his new album, 12 Segundos de Oscuridad -- Twelve Seconds of Darkness"-- Oscar-winning musician Jorge Drexler explores the path that darkness can illuminate.

A Dark Journey to the North Pole

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

This Sunday, two of the world's top solo explorers will attempt to do what no one has ever done: travel 620 miles on an unsupported mission to the North Pole in the total darkness of Arctic winter.

Finding Direction at the Bottom of the World, Part 2

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Independent radio producer Scott Carrier concludes his story about a Utah woman who went searching for direction in life and found it in the most unlikely place: the bottom of the world. The woman recounts some of the strange things that happen on the scientific base where she worked during the six months of darkness that is the Antarctic winter.

Religion Scholar Karen Armstrong, 'Climb Out of Darkness'

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

When Karen Armstrong left the Roman Catholic Convent where she was a nun in 1969, she entered a world vastly different from the one she abandoned 7 years earlier. She had no idea what was going on in Vietnam and had little idea who The Beatles were. Her memoir, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness about her life in the convent and the spiritual quest that followed has just been published in paperback. Her other books include The Battle for God and A History of God.

Dining in the Dark

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

The Blind Cow Restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland, offers up a different dining experience: Guests eat in complete darkness and are served by blind or visually handicapped waitstaff.

A Memoir of Amos Oz, and Israel

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with Amos Oz, Israel's leading author, about his new memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness. His life story shares many parallels with the history of the Jewish state.