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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, singer/songwriter and novelist Josh Ritter

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Roy and PJ Hirabayashi
2011 National Heritage Fellows

Co-founders of San Jose Taiko, Roy and PJ Hirabayashi talk about the importance of this traditional art in the Asian American community. [28:34]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 25, 2011

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Nic Muni
Opera Director

Innovative director Nic Muni talks about the challenges and rewards of producing opera. [26:20]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 18, 2011

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David Seidler
Academy Award winning Screenwriter

David Seidler talks about his film, The King's Speech, and his own struggle with stuttering. [31:21]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 11, 2011

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Gary Giddins
Jazz writer

Jazz writer Gary Giddins on the incomparable Louis Armstrong. [32:17]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 4, 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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