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For generations, the local pub has been a fixed staple of Britain’s landscape and culture. Now though, those pubs are disappearing – fast. Nearly 400 pubs called their final last orders in England and Wales in the first half of 2023. That’s a rate of about two a day, and almost as many as during the whole of 2022 combined. What is going on, and can anything be done to stop it? Dan Ashby’s been down the pub, investigating. see more
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California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia on the Gifts of Poetry

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 (Photo: Jay R. Hart courtesy of the California Arts Council)

"Money breeds money." Apt words from Dana Gioia, a former VP of General Foods and a graduate of Stanford Business School. But this is a stanza, not a business mantra, and it comes from the pen of California's new Poet Laureate: Gioia. A longtime poetry advocate and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia joins us to discuss his ideas for promoting poetry teaching in schools as well as how he plans to broaden the audience for poetry.

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