The Story of Paper

Alice Irizarry and Andrew Devis present the story of author J. K. Rowling whose storytelling began with an idea on a train ride and months of writing in her notebooks in a small Scottish coffee shop. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/the-birth-of-harry-potter/Download our ...  Show more

What hope for healing do people with life-threatening diseases have? Patrick and Gillian Woodward share the story of Doctors Sujai and Lavanya Suneetha and their clinic in India. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/nireekshana-acet-a-place-of-confident-hope/Download our app ...  Show more

Paper is all around us. There’s toilet paper and pizza boxes, wrapping paper, and receipts. Most of the paper in the U.S. is made from trees, but it can be made out of all sorts of plant material – banana peels, cotton, rice, you name it! Join guest host Rosie duPont and co-host ...  Show more

Valentines, comic books, cigarette cards and more—all of these objects can be meaningful, but what does it mean to house them in a museum? Paper holds our memories, our stories, our fears, and our desires. How do conservators race against time to make them last? Enter the world o ...  Show more

Dans ce nouvel épisode de notre podcast, nous visitons l’exposition Histoires de papier en compagnie des commissaires de l’exposition Xavier Salmon et Victor Hundsbuckler, respectivement directeur et conservateur au Département des Arts graphiques du musée du Louvre. Histoires de ...  Show more

The Gutenberg printing press is widely considered to be one of humanity’s defining inventions. Actually, you can quibble with Gutenberg’s place in history. He wasn’t the first to invent a movable type press – it was originally developed in China. Still the Gutenberg press changed ...  Show more