#81: Revisiting Ira Glass Behind the Scenes at This American Life
“A story is an engine for feelings.” - This American Life founder, host and producer Ira Glass In 2019, This American Life founder, host, and producer Ira Glass gave his special brand of insight in...
2 Sep 202233min
#80: Director Loira Limbal’s Heartfelt Homage to Working Mothers
“I felt like I don't have to tell you how brutal racial capitalism is in the United States if I am showing you. I wanted capitalism to indict itself in the film.” -- director and producer Loira Limb...
5 Aug 202222min
#79: Nanfu Wang’s Brave COVID Doc Draws Dramatic Parallels
“Finding people who praise the government is easy. Finding people who are critical of the government is easy. What is the most difficult is convincing some people who are ordinary citizens who have in...
1 Jul 202226min
#78: CBS’s Norah O’Donnell On Her Toughest Story Yet: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military
“These women who join the military are just the finest…and the fact that they are being harassed and abused and driven from military service is really a national security issue.” --- CBS Managing Ed...
3 Jun 202223min
#77: Tracing Trauma with WNYC's KalaLea
In episode two of Season 15, WNYC’s KalaLea discusses how her 2022 duPont-Columbia award-winning audio series, "Blindspot: Tulsa Burning," immerses listeners in the past, embedding them in the Tulsa R...
6 Mai 202221min
#76: NPR's Laura Sullivan Talks Trash
NPR’s Laura Sullivan reveals the surprising twists and turns behind her 2022 duPont-award winning Planet Money piece, “Waste Land.” Stowed in boxes of old lobbying documents in private family homes, a...
31 Mar 202223min
#75: Ed Ou, director of A Different Kind of Force — Policing Mental Illness
Ed Ou is co-director of the duPont-Columbia award-winning documentary A Different Kind of Force — Policing Mental Illness. Ou joins host Lisa Cohen to talk about the process of creating a nuanced and ...
3 Des 202133min
#74: Ear Hustle's Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor are the co-creators and co-hosts of the 2021 duPont Columbia Award-winning podcast Ear Hustle, a unique podcast produced in San Quentin State Prison. In this interview, t...
5 Nov 202134min
