"Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows" - Frank Lloyd Wright as told to Mike Wallace in 1957

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Frank Lloyd Wright - The Experimenters

"Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." - Temple Grandin in an oral history recorded in 2008

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Temple Grandin on Search Engines | The Experimenters

“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” - Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010

Dame Stephanie Shirley might be the most successful tech entrepreneur you have never heard of. In the early 1960s, Shirley started a barrier-breaking, all-woman software company that would eventually be valued at $3 billion. From a rarely heard oral history at The British Library, Shirley takes us on the journey from fleeing Nazi Germany as a little girl to breaking through in the new world of computers despite not being taken seriously as a woman working from home. She even changed her name to Steve.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code

"A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel.

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Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials | Blank on Blank

"Mama just always said, ‘you be what you are and you don’t have to worry about nothing.’"

From a previously unheard interview recorded in 1978

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Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty

George Washington Carver, Oliver Sacks, and Jacques Cousteau. Our podcast returns with lost interviews on self, sight, and deep-sea diving. These three luminaries had the imaginations and daring to go where none had gone before. They overcame indifference and bigotry, exploring the darkest depths of the ocean, and even challenging their own deepest assumptions. These men lived the very definition of scientific inquiry. We’ve brought the three together for the return of our special series, The Experimenters, featuring icons of science and innovation.

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Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver.

Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock. It's our latest installment of The Experimenters and we're about to hear from an anthropologist and a futurist: two people endeavoring to understand the impact of scientific invention. Margaret Mead and Alvin Toffler know that while we’ve started a technological revolution, we don’t quite know where it’s going to take us. 

But maybe most interesting of all - we’ll be hearing these archival interviews from the very future these thinkers were trying to imagine.

Margaret Mead and Alvin Toffler are our two guides into a view of what the present might have been… or perhaps in some ways actually came to pass.

First.

Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead on Revolution and Future Shock

George Michael in a never heard interview from the Joe Smith Collection at the Library of Congress. He talks about sexuality, Wham!, going solo, dreams, and playing in Communist the China. He was 23 at the time of the recording.
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George Michael Interview, November 10, 1986

Famous names. Lost interviews. Journalists' tapes comes back to life via podcast & radio with PRX, and an animated series with PBS Digital Studios. Blank on Blank is a production of Quoted Studios, a non-profit 501(c)(3). 

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