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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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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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Laurie Olin
Landscape Architect and 2012 National Medal of Arts Recipient

Laurie Olin on the work of landscape architecture—balancing nature and cultivation. [32:45]

transcript | download mp3   Posted July 25, 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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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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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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