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Listen to Extraordinary Conversations with Helga While The Spark Takes a Break

Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga.

By Christina Zeiders

Pennsylvania artist sheds a light on health care system challenges and hair discrimination experienced by people of color

Maria James-Thiaw, award-winning poet, performer, and playwright, has nearly 20 years of experience as a professor of writing and community teaching artist.

By Aniya Faulcon

Smart Talk First Friday November arts and culture

Campbell’s 50-year career in animation includes works featuring Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Rugrats and more.

By Merideth Bucher/WITF

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Posthumously unsealed trove of T.S. Eliot letters reveal ill-fated relationship with Emily Hale

In dueling narratives about their relationship, the pair talk about the comfort they found in one another during Eliot’s unhappy marriage to his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. However, they offer conflicting portrayals of their intimate friendship.

By Nicholas Pugliese/WHYY

Notes scribbled in Free Library of Philadelphia’s copy of Shakespeare were written by ‘Paradise Lost’ poet John Milton

The Free Library is expecting a clamoring of academics requesting a private audience with the folio to study its annotations, but not before the public gets a chance to see it.

By Peter Crimmins/WHYY

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