Now I've Heard Everything

In the 1970s Phyllis Schlafly launched an anti-feminist crusade that would make her a household name -- lauded by many, revered by some, but hated and smeared by many others.

In ths 2003 interview Schlafly looks back on her decades-long battle with feminism and her influence in the conservative movement.

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In the mid-1950s no one on Broadway was hotter than the team of Adler and Ross. Composer Richard Adler and lyricist Jerry Ross produced back to back Broadway hits TPe Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, featuring songs that would remain popular for decades.

But Ross died suddenly in 1955, taking Adler's career in new and unexpected directions.

Adler looks back on his up-and-down career in this 1990 interview.

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Roz Chast has been a fixture among New Yorker cartoonists for many years. In 2007. She collaborated with comedian Steve Martin on a children's book.

In this 2007 interview, Chast explains how their partnership worked. And why the book is as much for the parents as it is for the children.

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Alan Shepard was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. A few years later, Shepard became the oldest man ever to walk on the surface of the moon.

In this 1994 interview, Shepard looks back on those Apollo years, to tell the inside story of how America put men on the moon and returned them home safely by the end of the decade.

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Writer Paul Dickson spent several years researching the special slang of baseball, and how many of those words eventually made it into our everyday language.

In this 1989 interview, Dickson talks about the origins of some of those terms, words like “bullpen,” “fan,” and the phrase “out of left field.”

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For more than 40 years, Stuart has been dispensing advice on cooking and decorating and entertaining guests. Best-selling books, a magazine, and a television show have helped push her to the forefront.

In this 1994 interview we talk about her book Martha Stewart's Menus For Entertaining.

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His name was Andrew Grove. He fled the Hungarian revolution in 1956 to come to the US. In 1968, he joined the newly formed company called Intel, and eventually became its third CEO.

In this 2001 interview Grove talks about his autobiography, a book he called Swimming Across.

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Journalist. Simon Winchester was British by birth, but became an American, and was fascinated by things that most Americans either take for granted or don't even know in the first place.

He ended up writing a book about inventors, innovators and explorers who built this country. In this 2013 interview, Winchester goes into detail about his book The Men Who United the States.

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As a 24-year-old housewife in 1951, Lillian Vernon started as small mail order business from her kitchen table, to bring in a few extra bucks. The business grew into the Lillian Vernon Corporation.,

In this 1996 interview Lillian Vernon reveals some of her secrets to success, and offers encouragement to other enterpeneurs, particularly women.

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CeCe Winans made her mark early on, as a member of the Wimans Family singing group. While still a teenager, she signed on with the PTL Club TV show run by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.

Alongside BeBe, and later as a solo artist. CeCe Winans racked up 15 Grammy awards, 31 GMA Dove awards, and countless other accolades.

In this 1999 interview CeCe Winans reflects on her upbringing and the evolution of her career -- and her faith.

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