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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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Jennifer Egan
Author

Novelist Jennifer Egan talks about her National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning book, A Visit from the Goon Squad. [29:24]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 24, 2011

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Duke Ellington
Jazz Musician, Composer, Bandleader

A look at the Washington, DC roots of Duke Ellington and their impact on his development as a musician and composer.  [8:40]

transcript | download mp3   Posted July 15, 2010

Photo by Debra Corrie

Unai Elorriaga
NEA International Literary Award (Plants Don’t Drink Coffee)

Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of translation and the Basque language. [25:50]

transcript | download mp3   Posted August 19, 2010

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Parker Esse
Choreographer

Choreographer Parker Esse talks about his experience creating new choreography for Arena Stage's revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical Oklahoma!. [26:29]

transcript | download mp3   Posted December 2, 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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