Podcasts

Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, advocate, and NEA Jazz Master.

Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson."

Keri Putnam discusses Film Forward, an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Now in its second year, the program aims to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue thr...

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. 

Saxophonist, composer, arranger and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath talks about his storied career and some of the jazz greats he’s played with.

Celebrating opera in America and the 2011 NEA Opera Honorees.

What's it like to co-create a festival from scratch in a small mountain town with little money and a lot of help from friends and neighbors?

Stage designer and 2011 NEA Opera Honoree discusses opera as a collaborative endeavor.

Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the "Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day."

Football All-American at The Citadel, Morris Robinson started studying voice at the age of 30, and now sings at the great opera houses throughout the country.

The Slack key guitar master and NEA National Heritage Fellow on making music the Hawaiian way.

A conversation with the songwriter/novelist who performs under the stage name John Wesley Harding.