Studio 360 With Kurt Andersen
The Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, from PRI, is a smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt introduces the people who are creating and shaping our culture. Life is busy – so let Studio 360 steer you to the must-see movie this weekend, the next book for your nightstand, or the song that will change your life. Produced in association with Slate.
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Rebels without a pause
A revolutionary Public Enemy album turns 30, the history of protest art and the “Nancy” comics reboot.
50 min
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Shadows in the Sunshine State
The strange, creative influence of Florida
50 min
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The Director of Hereditary on Family, Kids and ...
The influences behind Ari Aster’s debut film.
14 min
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‘Fahrenheit 451’ rekindled
The Ray Bradbury novel’s new relevance, plus the making of a Bowie mashup and “American Animals” director Bart Layton.
50 min
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Science and Creativity: Way to Go, Einstein Par...
What are gravitational waves? Astrophysicist Janna Levin has the answer.
14 min
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Science and Creativity: Way to Go, Einstein Par...
Pop-Culture Einstein: John Wray and James Gleick on how Einstein influenced their writing.
17 min
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Science and Creativity: Way to Go, Einstein Part I
When Einstein was no Einstein: The long road to the theory of relativity.
19 min
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American Icons: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
How do you memorialize a war that was more tragic than triumphant? Inscribed with the name of every fallen soldier, Maya Lin’s granite wall became a sacred place for veterans.
51 min
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American Animals: Bart Layton’s New Breed of Tr...
How filmmaker Bart Layton blurred the line between a feature and a documentary to create American Animals.
16 min
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Muppet regime
How Jim Henson brought the Muppets to life.
49 min
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Science and Creativity: The Multiverse Part III
The multiheroes of the superverse: Physics Professor James Kakalios and TV producer/creator of the Tommy Westphall universe Tom Fontana.
15 min
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Science and Creativity: The Multiverse Part II
Artist Charles Jenks has turned the Scottish countryside into a map of the multiverse.
18 min
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Science and Creativity: The Multiverse Part I
What is the multiverse?
16 min
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Pet projects
How pets inspire and confound us.
50 min
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When Bad People Create Good Art
How should journalists write about art in the #MeToo era?
24 min
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One mom at a time
Women who create stories about what it means to be a mother now.
47 min
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Super humans
The mortals who bring comic book characters to life.
50 min
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Ch-ch-changes: Making the Bowie Mashup
How Tony Visconti, Bowie's longtime producer, captured the artist's career in a 15 minute remix.
13 min
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One tall woman
An interview with Laurie Metcalf (“Three Tall Women,” “Roseanne,” “Lady Bird”), a miniature play and jazz guitar great Wes Montgomery.
50 min
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American Tricons
American Icons 3-pack: “Amazing Grace,” “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and “Spoon River Anthology.”
49 min
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The Sound of One Claw Slashing (SNIKT!)
How Brendan Baker and Chloe Prasinos created a sound-rich world for Marvel’s Wolverine: The Long Night.
15 min
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A void: The Noid
The triumph and tragedy of a pizza mascot.
49 min
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Poets who know it
Inside the heart and soul of American poetry.
49 min
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A Room of Nell Scovell’s Own
The writer for The Simpsons, Late Night with David Letterman and Newhart on being the only woman in the writers’ room.
17 min
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What Laurie Anderson lost
How the multimedia artist bounced back from losing Lou Reed — and so much more.
49 min