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"Godfather of Soul" James Brown spoke to Fresh Air in 2005. Justin Chang reviews Three Thousand Years of Longing. Greenwich co-wrote some of the most popular girl group songs of the early 1960s.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, some of the biggest names in show business took to the stage to read their favorite wordsmiths.

If humans vanished from Earth, plastic, radio waves and I Love Lucy reruns would be our most enduring legacies. It's a ghostly scenario described in The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman's meditation on how the planet would respond to man's extinction.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares the albums and songs that stood out even if some were more peaceful than explosive.

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the tomb may date back to the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, which occurred between 1550 B.C. and 1292 BC.

In Oregon, wolverines are typically located in the Wallowa Mountains in the northeast of the state. But the animal was seen near Portland this week.

In the coastal city of Derna, dams broke, sending a torrent of water that submerged whole neighborhoods. Rescue efforts are complicated by the fact that Libya is divided between rival governments.

The cyclone that struck Myanmar last Saturday killed at least 22,000 people. Forecasters saw the storm coming, and Myanmar's military government spread warnings, but the warnings went out via television — which didn't help much in a country with spotty electricity.

Soprano Patricia Racette stars in the title role of Janacek's devastating, yet stunningly beautiful drama Jenufa, in a production from the Washington National Opera.

A provincewide state of emergency was declared in Alberta as more than 110 wildfires burned across the province, while two out-of-control wildfires burned in British Columbia.