Listen to a conversation with pianist Andreas Ioannides about the this year's festival

Flies are notorious house pests. Why can it be so hard to get rid of them?

This week, we explore the early artistry of the great Tony Bennett, who would have turned 100 in August, by listening to excerpts from the LPs he recorded for Columbia Records in the 1950s and early 1960s.

William Shakespeare included so many botanical references in his plays that there are about 175 mentions of flowers, fruits, grains, grasses, seeds, weeds, trees, spices, herbs, and vegetables in his works.

Just as interesting as the speeches future historian James Woodburn gave in his undergraduate debate club at IU are the texts he wrote but never delivered.

Listen to a conversation with Linda Strommen, professor of oboe at Indiana University about her new album Life's Journeys, her long-time friendship and collaboration with composer Eric Ewazen, and her thoughts on new music for the oboe.

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We're exploring medieval and Renaissance songs and dances collected by 18th-century “early music” aficionados in Britain. Plus, our featured recording by The Curious Bards explores Irish and Scottish identities through traditional music.

Writer Alyse Knorr reads her poem from her book Ardor: “Post-Partum,” “Incompleteness Theorem,” “Eclipse,” and “Ode.”

A letter written from Indianapolis in June 1840 suggests that weddings of the rich and famous were as eagerly anticipated almost two centuries ago as today.

Dancing causes something unpredictable to happen in how you look and how you feel. Thankfully, you can’t experience both of these simultaneously.

I don’t have a watering system, so I get tired of watering when there are long periods of hot, dry summer weather. Here in the Midwest when it is over 90F, potted plants need watering twice a day and beds on slopes do too. It is a chore that makes me wish I had more drought tolerant plantings.