The Lost American Colony
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Guest:\\xa0Scott Dawson, author of \\u201cThe Lost Colony and Hatteras Island\\u201d
In 1587 a group of over one hundred English colonists departed to start a colony on Roanoke Island. After the leader John White left for a resupply in England he returned to find nothing left. What happened to these colonists and why can\'t we solve the mystery of the lost colony.
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Atlantis: An Ancient Allegory
Guest: Stephen Kershaw, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, and author of "The Search for Atlantis: A History of Plato\\u2019s Ideal State," and most recently "Barbarians: Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire"
Atlantis is a Platonic, mythical allegory demonstrating the corruption of a previously moral society. But most people don\'t care about the allegory, they just want to find a mystical city. Plato would shake his head in disbelief if he could see what we\'ve done with his tale.'