This week: an aural trip to one of the oldest cities in the world, an unconventional love affair, and a man who eats up all the books he reads (literally).

Fez, Morocco: A Journey in Sound
by Jim Metzner (The Savvy Traveler, 1998)
Fez, Morocco, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Jim Metzner takes us on an aural tour of the city and back in time.

Holy Soul 
by Matt Power (The Next Big Thing, 2002)
Matt Power was a 15-year-old aspiring writer when he met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's bar mitzvah. The two developed an intimate friendship, and Ginsberg's influence as a mentor, friend, and writer is still ever-present in Matt's daily life.

Mind, Body, Soul 
by Gregory Whitehead (BBC Radio 4, 1999)
Gregory Whitehead interviews a performance artist whose “art” consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible, page by page.