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  People We Meet: Unforgettable...

  NPR

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  Nationally known NPR on-air personalities—including Melissa Block, David Greene, Rachel Martin, Guy Raz, Scott Simon, Susan Stamberg and many more—share the lasting impressions made during interviews with a wide variety of exceptional individuals. Each story is introduced by the NPR host and offers a candid account of how the encounter was particularly meaningful to them.These are thought-provoking and emotionally resonant interviews with both the famous and the nearly anonymous, who reveal themselves over the course of a conversation in delightful, moving, and surprising ways.Contents:Introduction by David GreeneA Songwriter and an Army Dad Share One Touching Story (Connie Harrington and Paul Monti with Melissa Block)Stephen King on Getting Scared (Stephen King with David Greene)Autistic Slaughterhouse Inspector Calms Cattle (Temple Grandin with Daniel Zwerdling)Ingrid Betancourt’s Six Years in the Jungle (Ingrid Betancourt with Guy Raz)Killed for Taking Part in “Everybody’s Fight” (Sally Liuzzo-Prado with Karen Grigsby Bates)Day by Day: A Mother’s Life with Cancer (Neeley Wells with Rachel Martin)Self-Help Group for Facially Disfigured (Betsy Wilson with Susan Stamberg)With Fading Memory, Terry Pratchett Revisits “Carpet People” (Terry Pratchett with Arun Rath)“Lunch Lady” Author Helps Students Draw Their Own Heroes (Jarrett Krosoczka with Michelle Norris)How One Woman’s Faith Stopped a School Shooting (Antoinette Tuff with Michel Martin)Teen from Sarajevo (Irena Milic with Scott Simon)Katrina Survivors Donald and Colleen Bordelon (Colleen Bordelon with Steve Inskeep)Don’t Call This 12-Year-Old Pianist and Composer a Prodigy (Emily Bear with David Greene)

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  My Secret Life Vol 3 Chapter 21

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as 'the strangest book ever written'. Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.Now for the first time in the history of this infamous erotic masterpiece, film composer Dominic Crawford Collins is producing a fully scored narration of the complete unabridged text. More 'audiofilm' than audiobook, each chapter and scene has its own unique musical accompaniment, reflecting the author's changing emotional landscape and offering the listener a truly immersive erotic audio experience.Vol.3 Chapter 21Further undressing. • Slippers wanted. • Toilet operations. • The effects of hash and beer. • A windy escape. • Feeling for the pot.--Sisters exeunt. • A crushed hat, and soiled trowsers. • A narrow escape. • My benevolent intentions towards Jenny's sister.

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  Endangered Coral Reefs Die

  PBS NewsHour

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  In addition to negative consequences caused by overfishing and pollution, coral reefs face another major existential threat: increased acidity from warming oceans. Hari Sreenivasan reports from Florida about the dire outlook for coral reefs, as well as efforts and research to try and save them.

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  The Man Who Went into the West -...

  Byron Rogers

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  The award-winning life story of Wales national poet and vicar R.S. Thomas is “a biography touched by genius.” (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday) 
   
  R.S. Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Indeed, Thomas is a man who banned vacuum cleaners from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, and whose attempts to seek out more authentically Welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud English holidaymakers. 
   
  To Thomas’s many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry. 
   
  “A masterpiece.” —Daily Express 
   
  “A striking, vivid and tender reading of the man . . . Excellent.” —Observer 
   
  “Riotiously funny.” —Rowan Williams, Sunday Times 
   
  “It is precisely Byron Rogers’ darkly comic sense of the ridiculous that melts the frost from the head of R.S. Thomas and humanizes a remote and bleakly beautiful writer.” —The Times 
   
  “A chatty, disorderly but extremely good [biography] . . . A wonderfully comprehensive picture of the man.” —Daily Telegraph 
   
  “As revealing an account of a severely private person that anyone could hope to achieve.” —Alan Brownjohn, Times Literary Supplement 
   
  “Engagingly high-spirited and daring.” —Andrew Motion, Guardian Book of the Week 
   
  “Charming and deftly written. . . . A very funny book.” —Literary Review 
   
  “As readable and rounded a life of the man as could be written.” —Tablet 
   
  Winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography

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  Troy Davis Case

  PBS NewsHour

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  A parole board in Georgia has rejected clemency for inmate Troy Davis, who is slated to be executed Wednesday. Uproar over the case has revived questions about how the death penalty is applied. Gwen Ifill talks to The Heritage Foundation's Charles Stimson and Vincent Southerland of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

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  Elton John - The Biography

  David Buckley

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  Elton John is as much loved for his outrageous personality and witty outspokenness as for his music. Such shamelessness and sheer silliness rivals anything uttered by punk rockers, yet it is so typically Elton: honest and intemperate. Tragedy and heartbreak have played a large part in his life. Behind the parties, the hedonism, the lavish stage costumes, and silly glasses lies a more somber story. Between disputes with managers, legal wranglings, public break-ups, and divorce, John has been faced with not only an expanding waistline and a receding hairline, but serious health problems and drug addictions. Drawing on many firsthand interviews with his associates and musical collaborators, this intriguing story of high drama and prodigious talent traces John's astonishing journey through life as the colossus of camp, while also offering a critical history of his work and a fresh analysis of his contributions to popular music.

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