We dive into the fascinating real life story of L. Frank Baum, who wrote “The Wizard of Oz.” (Rebroadcast)

Love her or hate her, Barbie turned 50 in 2009. We look at the plastic princess, and the story of the woman who created the world’s most famous doll. (Rebroadcast)

Filmmaker Astra Taylor put top philosophers in taxicabs and asked for their bottom line on life. We listen in. (Rebroadcast)

Legendary basketball great Bill Russell reflects on life on and off the court, and on his friendship with his coach, Red Auerbach. (Rebroadcast)

Samuel Johnson at 300, and how one of history’s great idlers became one of literature’s great wits. (Rebroadcast)

Sylvia Earle has spent a lifetime exploring ocean depths. She tells us about her brainchild, Google Ocean, and the bottom of the deep blue sea. (Rebroadcast)

Iconic feminist Germaine Greer joins us with her re-imagined life of Shakespeare’s wife, Ann Hathaway. (Rebroadcast)

Top neuroscientist Bruce Hood on why we believe the unbelievable. (Rebroadcast)

The documentary film “Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense” — and a musical conversation between old and new jazz. (Rebroadcast)

We talk with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison on the weight of the written word. (Rebroadcast)

We’ll bring “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas to new life in our studio.

After 9/11, three men came together — a pastor, a rabbi, and an imam — to learn from each other. They call themselves the Interfaith Amigos. They’re with us.

For the final week of 2009, the On Point staff will be taking a break. And for our loyal listeners, we’re again featuring some of the best shows from our archives.

Cami Walker thought her life was over. Then she started giving. And lived again. Better. We’ll hear her story.

The end of a rough decade is here. The New York Times’ Frank Rich and TIME magazine’s Nancy Gibbs join us to look at what we’ve just lived through.

American households are abandoning their telephone landlines across all income brackets. We’ll look at what it means for life, business, and telephone communications when the wire goes away.

Back home from Copenhagen, with a deal that satisfies no one. We’ll talk with those who were there about what happens next.

Call her country, call her rock, Lucinda Williams made her name singing about heartache. Now she’s found love. We check in with her, and her Grammy-nominated album, “Little Honey.”

Iran ups the nuclear ante and cracks down on dissent, worldwide. We’ll open our phone lines to the voices of Iran.

We’re planning a show for this Monday on Iran and its global crackdown on dissent, and want to hear directly from Iranians. We invite you to call in to the show while we’re on the air live, and/or to post messages here at our website.