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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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Led Kaapana
2011 National Heritage Fellow

Slack key guitar master Led Kaapana talks about making music the Hawaiian way. [27:19]

transcript | download mp3   Posted September 15, 2011

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Aditi Brennan Kapil
Playwright, Actor, Director

Aditi Brennan Kapil discusses the ways her mixed cultural background informed her play, Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Story. [29:32]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 1, 2012

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Maxine Hong Kingston
Author

Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. [22:55]

transcript | download mp3   Posted May 10, 2012

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Tony Kushner
Playwright and 2012 National Medal of Arts Recipient

In part 1 of a two-part interview, Tony Kushner talks about his early attraction to theater and writing Angels in America. [28:50]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 1, 2013



 
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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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