For 20 years Neil King Jr. traveled to more than 50 countries in all continents to write and report and poke around as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. During his years in Washington, DC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent, national political reporter and, at the end, the Journal’s global economics editor. He now travels and writes on his own. He is the founder and editor of Gotham Canoe, an online journal dedicated to life out of doors. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal is his first book. He lives with his wife in Washington DC.

James B. Conroy is an award-winning author and an honorary fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He worked on Capitol Hill as a Senate press secretary and a congressman’s chief of staff, and served for six years in the Naval Air Reserve. A graduate Georgetown University Law Center, he practiced law in Boston. His book Our One Common Country was a finalist for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Lincoln’s White House shared the Lincoln Prize and won the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s annual book award.

Charlotte Gray is the author of eleven acclaimed books of literary nonfiction including her recent bestseller The Promise of Canada. The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country won numerous prizes including the Toronto Book Award and the Heritage Toronto Book Award and was shortlisted for several others. An adaptation of her bestseller Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike was broadcast as a television miniseries. An adjunct research professor in the department of history at Carleton University, she is the recipient of the Pierre Berton Award for distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history, a Member of the Order of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Behind only soccer, cricket is the second most-watched sport in the world. Basketball, hockey and football remain dominant in Greater Boston.

The playwright is a Pulitzer Prize recipient for his modern day adaptation of the story, "Fat Ham."

Negotiations were suspended Wednesday between Hollywood studios and the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union, as the two sides were unable to come to a deal.

GBH Music welcomes Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing for the next installment in our music series, playing Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, and icy music from her new album, "Arctic."

Tech entrepreneur Paul English, who co-founded Kayak, and Joyce Linehan, former Chief of Policy for the City of Boston and member of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, have founded BannedBooksUSA.org, an online platform that allows Florida residents to order banned and restricted books for just the price of shipping.

If your love for Edgar Allan Poe has been gently rapping, rapping at your chamber door, just embrace it and watch Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher because it is a hoot and a half.

The beloved host of the GBH program A Celtic Sojourn Radio continued his program and many events, even after receiving a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer.