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Our Favorite Answers By Listeners to the 7 Questions

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Rebecca Boyle: Moonstruck

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Doris Kearns Goodwin: In the Rooms Where it Happened

Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include newspaper editor Adam Moss; science journalist Rebecca Boyle; and writers Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.

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Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, has long been fascinated by the great physicist Richard Feynman. As has Alan. Stephen has devoted a year to making a remarkable podcast series on Feynman, and Alan has played Feynman on the stage for a year. They compare notes on what they’ve come to learn about him.

Our Favorite Answers By Listeners to the 7 Questions

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