Dave Davies
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Her book, The Sum of Us, asks why so many Americans believe that progress for one group means loss for another.
On Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, a conversation about the cost of that belief and who she says is really paying.
I hope you can join us.
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In the new film Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play a couple who form a Neil Diamond tribute band.
Today we're going to listen to our interview with Neil Diamond.
In the 1960s, he started out writing songs for a music publishing company, hoping someone would record them.
He wrote the Monkees hit, I'm a Believer.
But it was Diamond himself who made most of his own songs famous.
As a lot of Neil Diamond's contemporaries fell off the charts, he moved from teen pop to adult pop.