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Lucy Worsley, royal historian and Chief Curator of England’s Historic Royal Palaces.

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025 at 6 p.m. on KPBS TV. Join the popular royal historian for an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces. From the forbidding Tower of London to glorious Hampton Court to treasure-filled Kensington Palace, Lucy takes viewers behind the velvet ropes into each building’s most secret places.

We're tethered to our brothers and sisters as adults far longer than we are as children; our sibling relationships, in fact, are the longest-lasting family ties we have.

Here's To Grown-Up Siblings And The Ties That Bind

Though she and her younger brother are very different, he's the one, in a way, she knows best. Sibling relationships, in fact, are the longest-lasting family ties we have, transcending time and loss.

We all walk around the world thinking of ourselves as individuals. But in this short animation, NPR's Invisibilia explores some of the ways in which we're all invisibly connected to one another.

How Microexpressions Can Make Moods Contagious

Feelings seem to spread contagiously between friends, partners or groups. Why are we so easily influenced by one another's emotions? A new video from Invisibilia explains what's going on.

A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: "When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the ethnic minorities have hope." The sign at right says: "Rule of law."

Parents Keep Children Home As China Limits Mongolian Language In The Classroom

As it has long done with the Tibetan and Uighur languages, Beijing is reducing instruction in Mongolian in favor of Mandarin Chinese in ethnic Mongolian areas of the country.

Musician Lyra Pramuk released a debut album in late March.

6 Songs To Discover In San Diego In August

We're listening to new music from EST, Chauncey Maynor, Carrie Feller, Hllndr, Lyra Pramuk, Kenseth Thibideau and Pea Hicks.

Jonathan Hunt is surrounded by his 2019 top picks for children and young-adult literature at his office in San Diego, Dec. 20, 2019.

San Diego Librarian Shares His Top 12 Kids Books Of 2019

As Jonathan Hunt, librarian for the San Diego County Office of Education, looks back on the year and the decade, he says books for younger audiences have become more willing to address difficult topics.

Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? 'Murder By The Book' Explores The Notion

Author Claire Harman writes that one reason François Benjamin Courvoisier gave for why he murdered his boss Lord William Russell in 1840 was that he wanted to model himself on a book character.

Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? 'Murder By The Book' Explores The Notion

Author Claire Harman writes that one reason François Benjamin Courvoisier gave for why he murdered his boss Lord William Russell in 1840 was that he wanted to model himself on a book character.

The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is treating more than 50 patients from New York City, including 10 critically ill people with COVID-19 who were transferred to the ship from a hospital in Queens on Tuesday.

Number Of Patients At Overflow Hospitals In New York Has Doubled

The number of patients being treated on a Navy hospital ship and inside a convention center has more than doubled in the last two days, after both facilities switched to treating people with COVID-19.

Amid the pandemic, Americans are experiencing sleeplessness, headaches, stomach upset and more symptoms of chronic stress.

Sleepless Nights, Hair Loss And Cracked Teeth: Pandemic Stress Takes Its Toll

Reports are on the rise of symptoms such as headaches, stomach problems and flare-ups of autoimmune disorders. Here's why chronic stress can make our bodies hurt, and what to do about it.

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