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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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Queen Ida Guillory
Zydeco Musician (NEA National Heritage Fellow)

Queen Ida Guillory discusses the Zydeco tradition and how she became a part of the band. [25:22]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 12, 2010

Photo courtesy of Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland
Actress (National Medal of Arts recipient)

One of America's most beloved stars spills some backstage secrets while discussing career highlights. [27:52]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 26, 2010

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Stan Lee
Comic book writer, producer (National Medal of Arts recipient)

Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange: Stan Lee was there at the creation.

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 26, 2010

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Richard Sherman
Songwriter (National Medal of Arts recipient)

A world without Mary Poppins? No way. The two-time Oscar winner lets us in on how great show tunes get written. [29:58]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 26, 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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