We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the late Arthur Henry King's birth.  On today's show we talk with former students and look back on the BYU English Professor's life and lessons.—Original airdate: 2/19/2010 11:00:00 AM

It would be hard to find a living soul today who doesn’t recognize the melodies from Bizet’s "Carmen." But extremely few of those souls know the original tale by Merimee.  On today's show we talk with one person who does: Corry Cropper, a faculty member at Brigham Young University, in the Department of French and Italian.—Original airdate: 2/4/2010 11:00:00 AM

Boasting one of the most extensive collections of medieval stained glass in the world, Chartres Cathedral was built in a time when literacy was rare. For the masses, literacy was nothing more than the ability to read and interpret a picture. How many tens of thousands have read and internalized the stained glass of Chartres? Today we share the view from inside Chartres Cathedral.—Original airdate: 1/4/2010 11:00:00 AM

Imagine yourself as a childhood victim of abuse, having to give your story over and over again to various well-meaning authorities, then, doing so again in court, with your abuser looking on.  That was a common scenario in Salt Lake County, before the founding of the Children’s Justice Center. Join Marcus Smith as he speaks with Director Susanne Mitchell about her organization’s mission to protect children from being re-victimized by the courts.

—Original airdate: 3/3/2010 11:00:00 AM

We reflect on Come, Come Ye Saints.  Is altering the hymn the same as putting old wine in a new bottles?  Perhaps.  Or maybe the worn and tired tune needs refreshing by thoughtful artists.—Original airdate: 3/5/2010 11:00:00 AM

Beth Vaughn Cole, dean of the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University, reflects on the life of Florence Nightingale. Considered the founder of modern nursing, Nightingale is being remembered on the 100th anniversary of her death.—Original airdate: 1/14/2010 11:00:00 AM

Moliere’s most famous play, Tartuffe, created a big stir when it appeared in 1664—so much so, that King Louis the 14th banned performances of it.  Apparently people who move in high places can be a bit tetchy about the behavior called hypocrisy.  We’ll be much more liberally minded toward the play than was the French monarch, as we discuss it on Great Works Monday.—Original airdate: 2/1/2010 11:00:00 AM

Today is the 200th birth anniversary of Frederic Chopin, a mastermind of musical composition and performance.  Like Mozart, in the century before him, Chopin died before reaching the age of 40.  Today we visit with BYU Music Faculty artists Scott Holden and Robin Hancock about Chopin's music and genius.—Original airdate: 3/1/2010 11:00:00 AM

For a quarter of a century, historian Howard Dodson has been at the helm of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, housed at the New York Public Library. His personal story is interwoven with the purposes of the Schomburg Center. His work exemplifies the value of the study history. On today's Thinking Aloud we get to know Howard Dodson.
—Original airdate: 1/25/2010 11:00:00 AM

A fierce gun battle between striking coal miners and Colorado National Guardsmen erupted on April 20th, 1914 north of Trinidad, Colorado, near the Ludlow railroad crossing. What came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre is considered a watershed event in American labor history.  University of Colorado history professor Thomas Andrews, talks about his new book: "Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War”

—Original airdate: 2/17/2010 11:00:00 AM

The Center for Teaching and Learning ensures that the student becomes empowered to actively participate in his or her own education.  Trav Johnson and Bryan Bradley join us to discuss learner centered teaching on thinking aloud.
—Original airdate: 2/25/2010 11:00:00 AM

Stanley Crouch wrote: "She heard an alto saxophone, then a tenor join in, and a drummer had put down his plate to sit behind the traps, laying out a wide, medium-slow pong-pong-pong-pong on the cymbal, the reverberation stepping into her bloodstream as a bass line."  Best known as a jazz critic and essayist, Stanley Crouch visits with Marcus Smith.

—Original airdate: 3/8/2010 11:00:00 AM

Have you heard the one about the man who rushes into a doctor’s office and shouts, “Doc!  I think I’m shrinking!”  To which the doctor calmly responds, “Settle down.  You’ll just have to be a little patient.”

What makes that joke funny is grammatical ambiguity, a literary device that can be either cute or annoying, depending on the context.  BYU professor of linguistics, Dallin D. Oaks joins us to talk about it.
—Original airdate: 2/11/2010 11:00:00 AM

Some have called World War II, America’s “just” war.  But because wars involve people as well as nations, there are always acts of injustice along the way. There’s the issue of what is euphemistically referred to as “Collateral Damage,” the inflicting of death and suffering inflicted upon the innocent.  “A Thousand Cranes” is the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl from Hiroshima who survived the blast of the atomic bomb, only to die a decade later of Leukemia caused by radiation.  Today we speak with three BYU faculty members about the life and legacy of Sadako, what happened to the city where she lived, and what is now recognized as an American injustice immediately following Pearl Harbor.—Original airdate: 2/8/2010 11:00:00 AM

On today's Thinking Aloud we talk with Scott Holden, Jaren Hinckley, and Diane Thueson Reich.  Holden is a Horowitz prize-winning department chair of piano and organ studies at BYU.  Hinckley holds a Masters Degree in Clarinet Performance.  Reich is a soprano and a Professor of Voice.—Original airdate: 1/28/2010 11:00:00 AM