Award winning novelist Laurie R. King is the guest. Her latest novel is Back To The Garden.

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Award winning novelist Laurie R. King is the guest. Her latest novel is Back To The Garden.

Award winning historian David Pietrusza discusses his new book, Roosevelt Sweeps nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal.

Architecture critic and historian Alexandra Lange on her new book, Meet Me At The Fountain: An Inside History Of The Mall.

Encore interviews with Olivia Newton-John and David McCullough.

Award winning journalist and bestselling author Fiona Barton discusses her latest book, Local Gone Missing.

Laura Thompson returns to discuss her latest book, Heiresses: The Lives Of The Million Dollar Babies.

Novelist Clare Pooley discusses Iona Iversons’s Rules For Commuting. Also artist Gregory Edwards.

Singer, songwriter, author and adoptee advocate Zara Phillips discusses her latest book, Somebody’s Daughter and her new CD, Meditation & KitKats.

James Curtis discusses his new biography, Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life