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This week on Arts and Ideas: The global tuna industry, big band music from the 1930s and 40’s, and debunking moon landing conspiracy theories.

A new revelation forces federal investigators to close down the case, fast.

This week on Arts and Ideas: True stories about ‘The High Wire on a new Moth Radio Hour, music from a West Coast harmonica expert, and the divide between rural and urban America.

This week on Arts and Ideas: Notes from the edge of climate change, American Jazz pianist John Beasley on his new album, and The Last Woman of Warsaw.

In this episode of The Garden Lady C.L. starts off program with a postcard from azalea gall. She discusses favorite herbs and where to plant them, and takes calls from listeners about rejuvenating lilacs, boxwood problems, and why dahlias dried up in storage.

This week on Arts and Ideas: Reflections from Americans in combat abroad, Latin Jazz, and we should use gene editing to make "better" babies… Yes or no, that’s the debate.

Carla Kaplan has written a new biography of Jessica Mitford, a British aristocrat who became an American communist and advocate for social justice.

The Garden Lady opens the program with a postcard from plants for the cutting garden. C.L. then focused on pruning of hydrangeas, explaining that different species get pruned in separate ways. Calls from listeners covered many topics, from great varieties of tomatoes to black spot on roses, and possible suggestions for replacement shrubs where a burning bush once grew.

This program starts off with a postcard from Robin's plantain, aka fleabane. C.L. explains the advantages and disadvantages to tilling or not tilling vegetable gardens, and callers asked questions about peony buds filled with ants, invasive perennials and a Japanese maple tree that has some dieback.

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