Jeffrey Brown interviews Chinua Achebe on the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Things Fall Apart.”
Producers: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
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Christopher Curtis: “Bud, Not Buddy”
Christopher Curtis pulled off a literary two-fer 2000, winning both the prestigious John Newbury Award for children’s books, and the Coretta Scott King award for excellence by an African American in writing for children. The novel that has earned him such acclaim is “Bud, not Buddy.” Set in the segregated Depression-era Midwest, the book introduces us to a ten-year-old orphan.
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The Play’s the Thing
Paul Solman reports on an annual Shakespeare festival performed by Denver public.
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Becoming Falstaff
Actor Kevin Kline talks with Jeffrey Brown about the challenges of portraying Sir John Fallstaff in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.”
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Toni Morrison: A Conversation
A conversation with the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist about her book, “Paradise.”