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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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Tim O'Brien
Writer, National Book Award Winner

Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks about his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried  and how fiction can often tell a deeper truth about war.  [29:34]

transcript | download mp3   Posted November 9, 2011

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Jimmy Owens
2012 NEA Jazz Master

Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, and advocate Jimmy Owens talks about his life in jazz. [34:24]

transcript | download mp3   Posted December 8, 2011

Photo by Alex Brook Lynn

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
NEA Literature Fellowship recipient

Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community. [22:05]

transcript | download mp3   Posted April 28, 2011

Photo courtey of Virginia Folklife Program

The Paschall Brothers
Tidewater Gospel Group, 2012 National Heritage Fellowship recipients.

Three generations of Paschalls have brought beautiful harmonies to their community. [35:21]

transcript | download mp3   Posted October 3, 2012



 
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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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