On the Road with Bob Holman

A griot (gree-oh) is the keeper of the West African oral tradition and the tribe's genealogy through poetic songs. Bob is invited to Gambia by his lon...

The show continues in Timbuktu where Bob gets more insight into the dusty off-station in the middle of nowhere. Bob goes to the Timbuktu Library, with...

Yiddish, which once had five daily newspapers in New York City, is now an Endangered Language. From the director of the Sholem-Aleichem House and the...