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Episode 1097
[REBROADCAST FROM March 7, 2025] Before the 1985 Grammy Awards, no women had ever been nominated for Producer of the Year. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman became the first as part of Prince and the Re…
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DJ and Producer Tokimonsta On Music After Brain Surgery
Episode 1098
[REBROADCAST FROM March 18, 2025] In 2016, DJ and producer TOKiMONSTA underwent two brain surgeries for Moyamoya disease, after which she had to relearn how to speak and hear music. In 2019, she beca…
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Celebrating Jane Austen's 250th Birthday with Jennifer Egan and Helen Fielding
Episode 1096
This year marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, whose novels have been beloved, riffed on, and adapted for centuries. We discuss her work and legacy with Helen Fielding, whose book Bridget Jones’s…
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Artist Jack Whitten's New Major MoMA Retrospective
Episode 1095
MoMA has just opened a major retrospective of artist Jack Whitten. “Jack Whitten: The Messenger” features more than 175 works spanning the 1960s to the 2010s. Whitten, who died in 2018, was known for…
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The Life and Times of Folk Legend Janis Ian
Episode 1094
A new film chronicles the life of folk legend Janis Ian — from jamming in '60s Greenwich Village and rising to fame in the '70s, to facing financial struggles in the '80s, coming out in the '90s, and…
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Exploring the Mind of Groundbreaking Performer Andy Kaufman
Episode 1093
The new documentary “Thank You Very Much” takes a look at the life of groundbreaking comedian and performer Andy Kaufman, a man whose work has always defied expectations. Director Alex Braverman disc…
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What's the Reason Women Don't Play Baseball?
Episode 1092
Tomorrow is Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season. Kaitlyn Tiffany, staff writer at The Atlantic, is a big baseball fan, but she's increasingly wondered about why there aren't more op…
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Equalizers: Engineer and Producer Trina Shoemaker
Episode 1091
Trina Shoemaker is a multiple-Grammy-winning engineer and producer. Her work on Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions made her the first woman to win the Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. H…
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Amor Towles' Short Stories In 'Table For Two'
Episode 1090
[REBROADCAST FROM April 23, 2024] Best-selling author Amor Towles, has a short story collection, Table For Two, featuring six stories he wrote in New York set during the turn of the millennium. The b…
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Colum McCann's New Novel 'Twist'
Episode 1089
Kirkus Reviews says Colum McCann's latest novel, Twist, is "another astounding novel from a fiction master." The story follows an Irish writer who is a assigned a story about the people who repair th…
Published on 9 months ago