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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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Taylor Branch
Author

Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]

transcript | download mp3   Posted January 17, 2013

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Nancy Buirski
Director

Nancy Buirski discusses her prize-winning documentary, The Loving Story, a look at  a couple’s decision to  remain a family and challenge Virginia’s miscegenation laws. [31:43]

transcript | download mp3   Posted July 18, 2013

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David Baker
NEA Jazz Master

David Baker discusses his immersion into jazz, from playing to composing to teaching. [26:46]

transcript | download mp3   Posted June 17, 2010

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The Birmingham Sunlights
NEA National Heritage Fellows

The Birmingham Sunlights discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound" [28:50]

transcript | download mp3   Posted June 10, 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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