PRI: Arts and Entertainment
Summary: Public Radio International is pleased to offer this podcast as a great way to get your daily public radio arts fix. The podcast features pieces on music, books, film, television, and other arts. Topics will vary, but the quality will remain top-notch. This podcast will take you to all corners of the world, and to the undiscovered corners of your own community, highlighting all of the arts along the way.
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Podcasts:
New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max has written the first major biography of author David Foster Wallace. He talks about the work and life of Wallace on Studio 360.
A new documentary called "Girl Model" looks at the world of underage modeling through the eyes of a 13-year-old Russian girl named Nadya. From The Takeaway.
Artist Sue Austin amazed spectators at the Paralympics with her underwater wheelchair ballet performance. From PRI's The World.
The Heavy's new album is called "The Glorious Dead," and they're currently touring North America. They talk about their sound and perform live on Studio 360.
China Mieville discusses his novel "Embassytown," which features aliens that speak a strange language in a strange way -- with two voices simultaneously. From To the Best of Our Knowledge.
Authors Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen document how today's black music and entertainment is influenced bythe Minstrel shows of late 19th and early 20th centuries. From The Takeaway.
Authors Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen document how today's black music and entertainment is influenced bythe Minstrel shows of late 19th and early 20th centuries. From The Takeaway.
How Chilean pop musician Alex Anwandter found himself linked to a brutal hate crime and became an outspoken critic of his country's homophobia. From PRI's The World.
Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" is high on Barack Obama's campaign playlist; for Mitt Romney, it's Kid Rock's "Born Free" -- what these songs say about the candidates. From Studio 360.
Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" is high on Barack Obama's campaign playlist; for Mitt Romney, it's Kid Rock's "Born Free" -- what these songs say about the candidates. From Studio 360.
Dean Bakopoulos' novel is a mordantly funny satire about the psychological state of the nation. From To the Best of Our Knowledge.
Kirby Ferguson, a filmmaker and creator of the four-part video series, "Everything is a Remix," says we have to accept the ugly truth that creativity is stealing. From The Takeaway.
Satrapi combined live action, animation, and even puppets to construct a magic-realist 1950s Iran in "Chicken with Plums." From Studio 360.
There's a long tradition of languages invented for fiction, from Elvish to Klingon. Now there's Dothraki, created for HBO's Game of Thrones. From PRI's The world.
Judith Jones, legendary editor at Knopf, talks about discovering French cooking and her long friendship and partnership with Julia Child. From To the Best of Our Knowledge.
