PRI: Arts and Entertainment Podcast
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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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Mathematical art
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Feb 12, 2012
Mathematician artists explain why understanding math is so important to understanding what underlies art. From Studio 360.
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Chile protesters' anthem
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
Chilean-French singer Ana Tijoux explains why she is uncomfortable with her song becoming a protesters' anthem in Chile. From PRI's The World.
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Author Margot Livesey pays tribute to 'Jane Eyre' in new book
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Feb 07, 2012
"The Flight of Gemma Hardy" takes place in Scotland, has a mid-20th-century heroine and explores the life of exhiles. From Here and Now.
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Musical time capsule: "Desert Island Discs"
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Feb 05, 2012
From JK Rowling and Grace Kelly to Sir David Attenborough and Alice Cooper, numerous celebrities, heads of state and musicians have shared their musical selections on "Desert Island Discs" for 70 years.
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The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac comes to public tv
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Wyatt Cenac host the fourth season of "AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange," a documentary series profiling men and women from across the African Diaspora. From The Takeaway.
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'Wings"; Oscar's First Best Picture
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Excavated from Paramount's vault, "Wings" is finally available on DVD after a lengthy restoration process. The film features spectacular aerial photography, massive numbers of extras, and was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. From Studio 360.
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A new book brings Anne Frank back to life
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
Shalom Auslander talks about his new book, "Hope: A Tragedy," which imagines Anne Frank still living and still hiding in a rustic farmhouse outside New York City. From Studio 360.
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1989 music and politics
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
Music critic Joshua Clover talks about the historic events of 1989 -- the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Tiannamen Square protest -- and how they changed the music of the time. From To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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A revamped 'Porgy and Bess' on Broadway
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
A new production on Broadway is entitled "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," but it's not the one George and Ira presented in 1935. Audiences will get new dialogue, back stories, and orchestrations. From Studio 360.
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Understanding Haiti through comics
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
Cartoonist Matt Bors is editing a comic strip about life in Haiti since the earthquake. It's drawn by a Haitian cartoonist and written by a Haitian reporter, both based in Port au Prince. From PRI's The World.
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Zepher Press aims to bring more foreign literature America
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
Jim Kates, Zephyr Press director, says readers shouldn't be put off by foreign books, if the translations are done properly. He gives his picks for best foreign works of 2011. From Here and Now.
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Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica'
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
Last year, the Library of Congress inducted a Captain Beefheart record into its National Recording Registry. "Trout Mask Replica" (1969) is part free jazz, part blues, part beat poetry. From Studio 360.
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'Haywire' director Steven Soderbergh and actress Gina Carano on their new film
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Author: Public Radio International
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
Steven Soderbergh's latest risky endeavor, "Haywire," hits theaters on Friday. The film stars newcomer Gina Carano as a mixed martial arts fighter who seeks revenge after being betrayed during a mission. From The Takeaway.
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North Korean comic books
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
Heinz Insu Fenkl, associate professor of English at SUNY, explores what North Korean comic books tell us about that society. From to the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Barcelona's Maia Vidal
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
Maïa Vidal is part-French, part-Japanese-American and makes music as diverse as her background. From PRI's The World.
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Writer Edwidge Danticat on the best American essays of 2011
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Jan 15, 2012
The collection, "The Best American Essays Of 2011, edited by Edwidge Danticat, featurs essays by the late journalist Christopher Hitchens and authors Chang Rae Lee, Katy Butler and Zadie Smith. From Here and Now.
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Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has an 'aha' moment
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Jan 12, 2012
The September 11-themed novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," has been made into a movie that's currently out in theaters. In this interview on Studio 360, Foer describes how his creative drive was fired by assemblage artist Joseph Cornell.
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Pink Martini and Saori Yuki pay tribute to Japanese pop music
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Jan 10, 2012
Retro-swing band Pink Martini's latest album, '1969,' features Japanese pop star Saori Yuki and pays tribute to Japanese pop hits from 1969.
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Angelina Jolie on why she made 'In the Land of Blood and Honey'
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Jan 08, 2012
In this interview on Studio 360, Jolie tells Kurt Andersen about her directing and screenwriting debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," a film about the 1990s civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
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Country music may be going through a sea change
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Jan 05, 2012
Call it an indicator of economic times but in the time it took pickup trucks to go from stripped down working class boxes of mud and steel to plush seated luxury vehicles, country music went from the folksy tinny common man voice of Woody Guthrie to the likes of Tim McGraw singing about the perils of being rich. From The Takeaway.
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'The Future of Us' asks what we can learn from our future selves
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Jan 03, 2012
The new novel takes place in 1996, when its main characters find their future Facebook pages and decide to make some changes for their 30-something selves. From Here and Now.
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Global Hit: 2011 music picks
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Jan 01, 2012
The World's Marco Werman and April Peavey discuss their favorite CDs and interviews of the year.
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Robopainter
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Dec 29, 2011
AARON is the world's first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort. From Studio 360.
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Sara Gruen on 'Ape House'
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Dec 27, 2011
In her new novel "Ape House," a family of bonobo apes are captured to be the main attraction in a reality TV show. Sara Gruen tells To the Best of Our Knowledge she studied linguistics and learned a system of lexigrams so she could communicate directly with the apes housed at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa.
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The evolution of Sherlock Holmes
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
Sarah Montague traces Sherlock Holmes' evolution and reveals how the character keeps changing to suit the times. From Studio 360.
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Movie review: 'War Horse,' 'The Artist' and other releases this weekend
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Author: Public Radio International
Fri, Dec 23, 2011
Film critic Rafer Guzman and culture producer Kristen Meinzer discuss all of this week's new releases: 'War Horse,' '"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,' 'We Bought a Zoo,' 'The Artist.' From The Takeaway.
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Lou Beach's 420-character stories
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
The new collection of short stories -- extremely short stories, just 420 characters long -- by Lou Beach are vivid descriptions and narratives that are at once funny, sad, and bracing. From Studio 360.
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Soul singer Michael Kiwanuka
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Dec 18, 2011
Michael Kiwanuka's music is steeped in the earnest soul ballads that dominated radio airwaves in the 1970s and his voice echoes Bill Withers and a host of soul giants. From PRI's The World.
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Kate Winslet talks about new movie, 'Carnage'
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
In 'Carnage,' directed by Roman Polanski, the strains of marriage and parenthood loom large. Kate Winslet describes how she went about tackling her new role. From Studio 360.
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Interview with author Michael Ondaatje
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Dec 13, 2011
As a child, Michael Ondaatje took a long ocean voyage from Sri Lanka to England. In this interview, he explains how the voyage is the seed of his novel "The Cat's Table." From To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Awards buzz for 'Beginners,' starring Christopher Plummer
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Author: Public Radio International
Mon, Dec 12, 2011
The end of the year movie awards season has begun and the indie film "Beginners" has been picking up plaudits, including Oscar buzz for Christopher Plummer. From Here and Now.
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Hip-hop artist Dessa doesn't fit the mold
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
Thirty year-old Dessa has been making waves, both as a solo artist and as a member of the Minnesota hip-hop collective, Doomtree. Dessa doesn't fit the typical mold of a rap artist — she's white, female and from Minnesota. She's just released "Castor The Twin." From Here and Now.
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A Nashville star's secret stash of Soviet art
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Dec 06, 2011
Why does a country music megastar and all-American guy like Ronnie Dunn — half of what was Nashville's biggest act, Brooks & Dunn — have a house full of paintings from the Soviet Union? It's a long story, and he shares it with Studio 360.
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Inuit singers-songwriters Elisapie Isaac and Simon Lynge
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Dec 04, 2011
The World's Global Hit profiles two different singers of Inuit ancestry — Elisapie Isaac from northern Quebec and Simon Lynge from Greenland. The musicians talk about their current work and what inspires them.
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David Cronenberg on his new drama, 'A Dangerous Method'
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
Director David Cronenberg's new film is a straightforward historical drama — "A Dangerous Method" is based on the real-life case of Sabina Spielrein, a woman who sought treatment from Carl Jung and became his lover. Cronenberg talks about the relationship between Spielrein, Jung and Jung's opponent, Sigmund Freud. From Studio 360.
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The Decemberists' Colin Meloy on his new children's book, 'Wildwood'
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
Colin Meloy, the lead singer and chief songwriter of the band The Decemberists, has just written a children's book called "Wildwood" — his wife Carson Ellis illustrated the novel. "Wildwood" is the first of what will be a continuing series of stories about one middle school girl's adventures with mythical creatures. From The Takeaway.
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Teaching photography to Saudi Women
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Nov 27, 2011
Saudi Arabia doesn't seem like the best place for aspiring female photographers -- women aren't allowed to go out on their own and photography is generally frowned upon. But one professor tried to inspire women to become shutterbugs anyway. From Here and Now.
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Kirsten Dunst on 'Melancholia'
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Author: Public Radio International
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
Earlier this year, Kirsten Dunst won a best actress nod at Cannes for her performance in the role of Justine, who confronts impending doom alongside her sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in Lars von Trier's "Melancholia.". From The Takeaway.
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Argentina's La Bomba de Tiempo
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Author: Public Radio International
Tue, Nov 22, 2011
One of the hottest shows in Buenos Aires, La Bomba de Tiempo ("Time Bomb"), is a percussion explosion -- 18 musicians dressed in bright red overalls playing djembes, bass drums, claves and congas. From PRI's The World.
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Delving into Haruki Murakami's new novel '1Q84'
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Author: Public Radio International
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
Music plays a significant and recurring role in all of Japanese author Haruki Murakami's novels. That's especially true in his new 900+ page epic, '1Q84'. From Here and Now.
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