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Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
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Lenny at 100
This show originally aired on December 20, 2018.
A tribute to Leonard Bernstein with Nigel Simeone, Jamie Bernstein, and...
Van Morrison’s Cosmic Accident
This show first aired on March 29, 2018.
In the annals of rock music albums, Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is one of a kind....
Walden & the Natural World of Transcendentalism
This show originally aired on July 6, 2017.
Henry David Thoreau, our specimen of American genius in nature, wrote famously short, and...
Write Like the Russians
This episode was first broadcast on February 18, 2021.
The invitation this hour, or maybe the dream, is to learn how to write short...
The Joy and Genius of Erroll Garner
This show first aired on December 17, 2020.
Erroll Garner, the jazz pianist, is undergoing an upward revaluation of the sort that artists...
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