The Story

A videographer of the 18-th century pirate ship Blackbeard.

Ira Glass reads an Allen Ginsberg poem to the music of Philip Glass.

A moment with pianist and composer Lois Vierk, who talks about the inspiration she gets from winds and thunderstorms.

Dick speaks with Mary Simon, president of Canada’s national Inuit organization, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. Simon grew up in a rural Quebecois trading post without roads, and now travels constantly representing 55,000 Inuit from the country’s northernmost reaches.