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A free podcast will be released each Thursday featuring one-on-one interviews with everyone from NEA Jazz Masters to leading arts experts to National Medal of Arts winners and more.

  • » Next week, more with Tony Kushner--we talk about his latest play
    and his screenplay for the movie, Lincoln.

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Valerie Boyd
Biographer

Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston. [28:17]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 10, 2011

Photo by Ameen Howrani

Chuck Brown
NEA National Heritage Fellow

Musician Chuck Brown talks about his career, from honing his chops in prison in Lorton, Virginia, to developing his own musical genre in DC: go-go music. [28:49]

transcript | download mp3   Posted October 28, 2010

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Joan Myers Brown
National Medal of Arts recipient

Founder of Philadanco!, Joan Myers Brown reflects on what goes into building a leading African-American dance company and school. [27:29]

transcript | download mp3   Posted July 11, 2013

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Ken Burns
Documentary Filmmaker

Ken Burns talks about his most recent documentary series on the National Park system, as well as his approach to filmmaking and his attraction to iconic American subjects. [22:24]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 5, 2010



 
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Phoebe Jacobs, former Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, discusses hearing the inimitable Louis Armstrong for the first time. [2:05]

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Musician Neko Case reads and comments on “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh. [2:00]

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2009 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Will Farley recites “The Flea” by John Donne [2:06] 

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