Dec 15, 2020
In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with author Scott Ellsworth about his book The World Beneath Their Feet. This is the story of the race to climb the world's tallest peaks. Multiple countries and many expeditions risked money, treasure and the lives of their best climbers to achieve these feats. Ellsworth introduces...
Dec 9, 2020
In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with author Dr. John Harris about his book The Last Slave Ships. This is the story of merchants based in the U.S still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships to the African coast from American ports decades after the international slave trade was outlawed. Harris tracks how the...
Dec 4, 2020
In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with author Jonathan Daniel Wells about his book The Kidnapping Club. This is the amazing story of a powerful network of NYC judges, lawyers and police officers who enabled the kidnapping and sale of free and fugitive African Americans in the early 1800's. This occurred while slavery...
Dec 1, 2020
In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with biologist and author Jonathan Slaght about his book Owls of the Eastern Ice. This is the story of Slaght's quest to save the endangered Blakiston Fish Owl an owl which reaches a height of two and a half feet with a six foot wingspan. At times this reads like a detective novel...
Nov 18, 2020
In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with author David Daley about his book Unrigged. This is a compilation of stories from around the country about our fellow citizens pushing back against voter suppression in many forms to make their and our voices heard. Unbelievably timed before the 2020 election this is most of all...