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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.

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Photo courtesy of Ms. Jackson	Mary Jackson NEA National Heritage Fellow NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking. [22:52] transcript \| download mp3 Posted February 24, 2011
Photo by Tom Pich	Ron Carter NEA Jazz Master NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music. [25:21] transcript \| download mp3 Posted February 17, 2011
Photo by Joan Marcus	Anna Deveare Smith Theater Artist Playwright, actor, and activist Anna Deveare Smith talks about her extraordinary career and her current one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy. [31:01] transcript \| download mp3 Posted February 10, 2011
Photo by Joe Henson	Isabel Wilkerson Author Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern culture to the North, creating a new, vibrant culture in the country. [25:33] transcript \| download mp3 Posted February 3, 2011
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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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