17 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)
The British filmmaker Mike Leigh puts the move into movies: he never stops changing, never stops inventing. In nearly 50 years of filmmaking, he has ranged from comic portrayals of ordinary life amid ...
31 Okt 201948min
16 de/industrialization with Christine Walley (EF and JP)
On a blustery fall morning, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. In the early 1980s Chris’s father, along with thousands o...
25 Okt 201936min
15x Afterthoughts on Zadie Smith (John and Elizabeth)
Zadie Smith touched down at Brandeis because Swing Time was this year’s New Student Book Forum selection. It made for a busy day: on top of the podcast, she spoke to faculty and undergraduates at two ...
1 Okt 201925min
15 In Focus: Zadie Smith (JP)
In this episode, John interviews the celebrated British writer Zadie Smith. Zadie’s horror at the idea of rereading her own novels opens the show; she can more easily imagine rewriting one (as John’s ...
26 Sep 201950min
14x Afterthoughts about the Cixin Liu interview (Pu Wang and John)
In May, John and Pu interviewed SF superstar Cixin Liu (you will want to listen to that episode before this one). In August they entered the studio again to work on the final edits for that interview ...
13 Aug 201929min
14 In Focus: Cixin Liu (in English, with Pu Wang, JP)
In this episode, John and Brandeis professor Pu Wang talk with the bestselling science fiction author Cixin Liu. Mr. Liu is the author of The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End, and othe...
13 Aug 201948min
14c 刘慈欣访谈中文版 Cixin Liu with Pu Wang (in Chinese)
[This is the original Chinese interview with Cixin Liu; to hear the English translation, go to Episode 14] 今年5月18日，前来Brandeis大学接受荣誉博士学位的科幻小说家刘慈欣接受了John Plotz和王璞两位教授的专访。这次独具深度、异常精彩的访谈，已经整理为中英双语两个版本，想听刘...
13 Aug 201943min
13 Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson, author of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, a book that both tells a part of the history of Polynesia, and tells how histories of P...
2 Aug 201941min
