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Catherine Banner's new novel takes familiar tropes — it's a multigenerational family saga set in Sicily, and yes, there's limoncello and dancing in the piazza — and makes them fresh and inviting.

Veteran reporter Fiona Barton brings a journalist's eye to her fiction debut, the story of a woman thrust into the spotlight after her husband — accused of a terrible crime — dies in an accident.

After 22 years with the show, Davies is cutting back on his workload. He chats with Terry Gross about some of his most memorable interviews, and the preparation that goes into each conversation.

It took 80 years for Zemlinsky's fairy tale opera to be performed after it was suppressed by an unscrupulous conductor. Gorge is a dreamer who dreams of a better life that comes true for a happy ending.

This week's opera is from the pen of a forgotten master who was the teacher of Donizetti, inspiration of Rossini, and author of nearly 70 operas, Johann Simon Mayr. The opera is 1814's “Le due duchesse ossia La caccia dei lupi” (“The Two Duchesses or The Hunt of the Wolves”) in its 2017 world premier recording.

This week's opera is Busoni's "Doktor Faust," a seldomly done work featuring Dietrich Fischer-Deskau as the narrator and Dietrich Henschel in the title role.

Between the Keys' celebrates its tenth anniversary with an all-Bach program this Friday (3/21, rebroadcast Saturday 3/22)

Pressure cookers were once a common household appliance, but they fell out of favor in the U.S. as people turned to frozen dinners and microwaves.

At the very dawn of color television, the National Geographic Society began its successful run of eagerly anticipated specials. These specials really were…

Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Children of all ages! May I have your attention, please? Step right up for selections from “The Greatest Show on…