Arts & Life

Sunset Song, Terence Davies latest film, tells the story of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), a young Scottish woman who gives up her dream to help run the family farm. Along the way, she falls in love with a young farmer named Ewan (Kevin Guthrie).

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In Life And In Film, The Past Is Ever Present For Director Terence Davies

6:28pm May 20, 2016

by Tom Cole

Over the course of his 40-year career, Davies has only released six full-length feature films. His latest, Sunset Song, follows a young Scottish woman in the years before World War I.

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One of musician-turned-chef Philip Gelb's culinary creations for his Sound & Savor series of dinners and concerts. It's a mezze plate of falafel, roasted garlic hummus, beet nut pate, pepper pecan sauce and socca, a thin pancake made of chickpea flour.

An Underground Supper Club Where Music Moves The Menu

1:00pm May 20, 2016

by Maria Godoy

Philip Gelb once toured with top musicians. Now he's a chef who hosts intimate dinner parties where the entertainment, by innovative world musicians, is as experimental as the ever-changing fare.

ARGO — The Rescue of the Canadian Six was painted by an undercover CIA employee. It depicts an operation in which six Americans ("The Canadian Six") were rescued after the U.S. embassy in Tehran was taken over in 1979.

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12:21pm May 20, 2016

by NPR Staff

There's a private art gallery at CIA headquarters — who knew? Museum director Toni Hiley says the agency has a young workforce, and the collection of art and artifacts helps them learn from the past.

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Mike Rowe on Ask Me Another at the Bob Carr Theater in Orlando, Florida.

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Mike Rowe: Public Radio Shopping Network

10:39am May 20, 2016

We talk to Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and Somebody's Gotta Do It about his own surprising career path. Then he calls upon his experience as a QVC host in a game about hawking unusual items.

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Decode The State

10:25am May 20, 2016

What vice president "lost" the 2000 election, but won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth"? That's ALABAMA Gore, when you replace the postal code A-L with the full state name.

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NASA Scientists Melissa Jones and Gioia Massa on Ask Me Another.

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Meet the Experts: Gioia Massa and Melissa Jones

10:25am May 20, 2016

Because in space, no one can hear you complain about errors in sci-fi movies, we challenge NASA Scientists to a game about space related movies.

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Spy Spy Spy

10:25am May 20, 2016

Orlando is the primordial soup from which many of the most successful boy bands emerged. In recognition, we have rewritten N*SYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" to be about famous fictional spy spy spies.

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Fantasy Sports

10:25am May 20, 2016

We ask contestants to identify sports franchises that share their names with things found in fantasy literature.

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Florida is home to about 1.5 million alligators, so we've crafted this game around the expression, "See you later, alligator!" Each answer contains a word that ends in ator. See you later, gladiator!

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How Can We Design For A Better Experience?

8:36am May 20, 2016

by NPR/TED Staff

The designer behind the iPod and the Nest thermostat explains why design is in the details, and why designers often get those details wrong.

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