The On The Bookshelf Podcast

Popular Soap Star talks about his bipolar disorder

Maurice Benard, award-winning star of TV's "General Hospital" tells of his real-life struggle with bipolar disorder and the way his wife, family, and colleagues have supported and encouraged him.

New bio of beloved star and author Carrie Fisher

Sheila Weller gew up in the same sweet sheltered Beverly Hills neighborhoods where Carrie and her brother Todd were raised. Here is Carrie's full story, unblemished but uplifting, about great loss, great courage, and brave overcoming mental illness and addictive personalities (both of which were apparently inherited from her dad)

How a great dancer and a great company are making masks during COVID-19

Tony Doviani, dance director for Fred Astaire Dance Studios, tells how they are partnering with a fashion company to create medical masks during this health crisis.

George Wallace's daughter and her road to racial reconciliation

Peggy Wallace Kennedy tells her painful and true story of what it was like being the daughter of one of America's most infamous racists, his terrible childhood and how it twisted him, the assassination attempt that changed his life and attitude: her mother, Alabama's first Woman Governor, and her courage fighting cancer; her husband's career as a non-prejudiced justice in Alabama; and how Peggy has reached out to the Civil Rights veterans such as John Lewis and been embraced by them.

It's a powerful story of reconciliation and forgiveness.

The iconic actor John Rhys-Davies in new film role, St. Patrick

In time for St. Patrick's Day, one of the most popular and prolific character actors of our time discusses his starring role in "I Am Patrick". The new film about the legendary Christian missionary to the Irish, the people who enslaved him, is visually, emotionally and spiritually stunning. It is streaming now!