Now I've Heard Everything

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely says we all do it. Thing is, we almost all do it just a little, not enough to ruin our self-image of being a good, honest person.

In this 2012 interview Ariely explains the science behind our misbehaviors.

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Darlene Love was one of the most popular and most in-demand backup singers of the 1960s, working with some of the biggest stars, but her path to a solo career was littered with obstacles.

In this 1998 interview Love recounts her experience and what she had to do to make it all come together./

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There is a reason that even economists call their profession "the dismal science/" But in the hands of satirist and journalist, P.J. O'Rourke, economics takes on a whole new brilliance.

In this 1998 interview O'Rourke dissects economics, to expose what really goes on in the ongoing struggle between capitalism and socialism.

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Flashdance,Top Gun, and Fatal Attraction were just a few of those made under the supervision of studio executive Dawn Steel.

Her name was appropriate, too, because a woman in the man's world of Hollywood filmmaking had to be made of steel.

In this 1993 interview Steel reflects on her successes, failures, and improbable career path.

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British TV host David Frost may be best remembered for his 1977 series of interviews with former President Richard M. Nixon, who just three years earlier had resigned the presidency in disgrace after the Watergate scandal.

In this 2007 inerview Frost offers some behind the scenes glimpses of how the interviews came about, and what happened when the cameras stopped ruling.

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For a dozen years the pioneering radio sports broadcaster Red Barber called in every Friday to NPR's Morning Edition show, for an unscripted 4 minute talk with host Bob Edwards.

After Barber's death in 1992 Edwards wrote a memoir of those memorable conversations, a book he called Fridays With Red.

In this 1993 interview Edwards recaptures the magic of their radio friendship.

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A decades-long tradition continues this summer, with the 35th annual Black Family Reunion this month. The event was started in 1989 by Dorothy Height, the longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women. And from the reunions grew the Black Family Reunion Cookbook.

But as you'll hear in this 1993 interview with Dorothy Height, the cookbook was more than just a collection of recipes. It was an oral history of the African-American family.

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One of those caught up in this maelstrom of the turbulent '60s was the young Cathy Wilkerson. She joined the radical Weather Underground, and helped them turn her father's New York City townhouse into a bomb factory.

An explosion there that killed 3 people also made Wilkerson a fugitive, eluding the FBI for 10 yeas.

In this 2997 interview Wilkerson talks about her life as a radical, a fugitive, and later a teacher.

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Author Salman Rushdie's 1988 novelThe Satanic Verses, that earned him not accolades, but I death sentence, pronounced by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Rushdie spent the next several years essentially in hiding, but gradually re-emerged in public, and by 2002 was again going on author tours.

In this 2002 interview Rushdie reflects on his exile, his literature, and his sense of humor.

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Tracy Austin won the US Open women's singles title in 1979 at age 16, making her the youngest ever to win that title.

But by age 21, her career was all but ended by a series of injuries. That led to speculationand rumor about what was really going on with Tracy Austin.

In this 1992 interview she sets out to put those rumors to rest, and tell her story in her own words.

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