Podcasts

In her latest book, "When Women Were Birds," naturalist Terry Tempest Williams explores the legacy of her mother’s journals.

The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine great gaming with classic poetry.

The 2010 NEA Literature Fellow talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea.

Antonio Sanchez talks about the melody of jazz drumming and his new CD, "New Life."

Lynn Hill—an Air Force veteran, author, and performer—discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of color.

A conversation with the man who launched the first outdoor jazz festival in the US--the legendary Newport Jazz Festival.

Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depression.

At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes.

M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women."

Director Mary Zimmerman discusses her approach to creating a play.

The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual and sonic art.

In the 2nd part of our interview, Price talks about the business of film making as well as some of the iconic films he’s made, including "Tootsie," "Gandhi," and "Boyz in the Hood."

In the first of a two-part interview, Frank Price talks about his early days as a television writer and producer of shows like "The Virginian" and "Columbo."