Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
By PRI and WNYC
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The Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, from PRI and WNYC, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to 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.
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CleanAmerican Icons: I Love Lucy | This is where television invented itself. It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ’50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliat | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanManchester, United | This week, a conversation with music journalist Eve Barlow about the terror attack in Manchester and the city’s rich musical history. Plus, “Master of None” co-creator Alan Yang reveals behind-the-scenes stories from the Netflix series, and an expe | 5/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhoa, Canada | This week, as President Trump threatens Canada, we salute our neighbors to the north. Kurt gets his Canadian knowledge tested, k.d. lang talks about her Canuck roots, and Mac DeMarco plays live. | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTwin Peek | This week, we head back to “Twin Peaks.” “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley talks about the impact of David Lynch’s cult TV show. Plus, what it was like growing up where the show was filmed, and the composers behind “X-Files” and “Breaking Ba | 5/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmerican Icons: Buffalo Bill | This was the American spectacle that colonized our dreams. He was the most famous American in the world — a showman and spin artist who parlayed a buffalo-hunting gig into an entertainment empire. William F. Cody’s stage show presented a new creation | 5/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitHandmaid in America | This week, why Margaret Atwood dedicated “The Handmaid’s Tale” to a woman known as Half-Hanged Mary. Plus, the Kinks’ Ray Davies shares his playlist of his favorite American songs, and the story behind that album with George Carlin’s classic bi | 4/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFan Overboard! | This week, Studio 360 gets obsessed about fandom: a look inside the world of black cosplayers at ComicCon, Kurt visits a Japanese pop culture paradise, and an atheist proselytizes “Jesus Christ Superstar.” | 4/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Sweet the Sound | How a church hymn became an American anthem: the surprising and complicated story behind “Amazing Grace.” Plus, a conversation with novelist Yewande Omotoso about her book, “The Woman Next Door.” And Aimee Mann reveals her biggest influences and | 4/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmerican Icons: Superman | Disguised as a mild-mannered reporter, Kurt Andersen explores the history of Superman with cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Art Spiegelman, director Bryan Singer, novelists Michael Chabon and Howard Jacobson, and the 1978 Lois Lane, Margot Kidder. Is this s | 4/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit“Shaft” and Present | This week, the story of “Shaft.” Plus, learn the lingo in a TV writers’ room with “Veep” showrunner David Mandel. And Kurt talks to author Osama Alomar about his collection of very short fiction, “The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories.” | 3/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPet Projects | This week, Kurt heads to a dog park and learns how to take the perfect pet portrait. Plus, the story behind “Share A Smile Becky,” Mattel’s attempt at creating a Barbie doll that used a wheelchair. And Carter Burwell, who scored the music for films | 3/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMagnetic Feels | This week, Kurt talks to comedians Kate Berlant and John Early about their absurdist new series, “555.” Plus, how filmmaker Garry Fraser went from being a heroin addict in Scotland to working on “T2: Trainspotting” — a movie about heroin addict | 3/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmerican Icons: Monticello | The home of America’s aspirations and deepest contradictions. Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an i | 3/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGetting into 'Get Out' | This week, Kurt talks to writer/director Jordan Peele about his new horror film “Get Out.” Plus, how Leonard Bernstein brought classical music from the concert hall to the living room. And Afropop band Sinkane performs live in our studio. | 3/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPolitical Art | This week, a look at artists — from the left to the right — getting political. Conservative painter Jon McNaughton talks about creating art in the era of the Trump administration. Plus, the Black Panthers' brief foray into the music business. And | 2/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOscar Preview | This week, we preview the Academy Awards. The casting director of “Moonlight” talks about the complicated process of finding the right actors for three different time periods. Plus, “La La Land” director Damien Chazelle guides Kurt through the cl | 2/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLove is on the Air | Where do you turn when you’re heartbroken in the dead of night? Delilah, of course — her radio call-in show pairs romantic advice with the perfect song. Plus, we discover the surprisingly sweet couple behind one of history’s naughtiest gag gifts: e | 2/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHere’s Looking at You | This week, Kurt talks to former NEA chairman Dana Gioia about how the Trump Administration may target federally-funded art. Plus, screenwriter Robert D. Siegel reveals how a real-life story becomes a Hollywood movie. And Karina Longworth and Noah Isenber | 2/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Scene and the Unseen | This week, a conversation with Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker, the story behind Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic moment, and a New York Times critic picks the timeliest show on TV. | 1/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmerican Icons: The Wizard of Oz | This is America’s dreamland. It's been 78 years since movie audiences first watched “The Wizard of Oz.” Meet the original man behind the curtain, L. Frank Baum, who had all the vision of Walt Disney, but none of the business sense. Discover how | 1/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMarilyn Monroe’s Long-Lost Skirt Scene | Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic moment — standing over a subway grate as her white dress billows up — was originally filmed in Manhattan in 1954. But a crowd of onlookers forced the producers to reshoot the scene in a Hollywood sound stage, and footag | 1/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPOTUS as Tastemaker | Our inauguration special: A review of Barack Obama's arts legacy, how fashion goes from inside the beltway to the runway, and "Game Change" co-author John Heilemann talks about the cultural tastes of Donald Trump. | 1/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow to Remember | This week, Kurt talks to Adam Driver, an architect tries to build a museum in Iraq, how Sly and the Family Stone created a pop music masterpiece, and Taylor Mac does a decade-by-decade revue of American pop. | 1/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKurt's Favorite Conversation of 2016 | Jack Viertel is a human encyclopedia of musical theater. He’s the producer of hit Broadway shows like “Hairspray,” “Kinky Boots,” and “The Producers.” And he’s also the artistic director of Encores, a New York series that resurrects | 12/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDesigning Life | From "Semi-Living Dolls" to glowing florescent illustrations, artists are using the tools of synthetic biology to grow their own materials and create works of art that are, essentially, alive. It’s one thing to wag our fingers at big scientific institu | 12/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Eerie Familiarity of "Man in the High Castle" | The Man in the High Castle, the Emmy Award winning TV series, imagines a world in which the Nazi’s won WWII. Set in the 1960s, the show blends actual pop cultural imagery and artifacts with fictional interpretations of an alternative ending to the war. | 12/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGet a Clue | This week, Kurt creates a crossword with a New York Times puzzle-maker, a neuroscientist explains why so many people share the same false memory, and a theater company brings August Wilson back to his boyhood home. | 12/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHuman Intelligence: A Holiday Tale | Kurt Andersen’s version of a Christmas story doesn’t have your typical talking snowman or mistletoe. Instead, this holiday tale involves extraterrestrial surveillance and melting polar ice caps. "Human Intelligence," was produced for radio by Jonath | 12/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanClose Encounters | This week, a stereophonic odyssey into the Amazon, the otherworldly nature of octopuses, and why a theater critic thinks Shakespeare is much ado about nothing. | 12/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas | Nothing takes the edge off the holidays quite like the soundtrack to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” by Vince Guaraldi. The jazz musician and composer always wanted to write a standard. And since the “Peanuts” holiday special first aired in 1965, it | 12/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWay to Go, Einstein | This week, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity: how Einstein upended the way we see space and time, his effect on pop culture, and how one of his most preposterous ideas was ultimately proven right. | 12/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIt’s Only Post-Natural | Feature | 12/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnd Don’t Call Me Shirley | An hour about spoofs, parodies, and lampoonery. Mel Brooks and David Zucker talk about the art of mocking movies. Then, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost deconstruct action flicks. And a live, unplugged performance by "Weird Al" Yankovic. (Segments | 11/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSharon Jones's Soul Revival | Sharon Jones burst onto the music scene about 10 years ago — she was backed by The Dap-Kings, a straight-out-of-the-1960s funk band with a fantastic horn section. And at just 5 feet tall, Sharon had all of the funk and spark of James Brown. The band | 11/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAll Shakespeare All the Time | On the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, we look at the ways his work continues to change and adapt. In the 19th century, Shakespeare’s work got caught up in minstrel shows — and African-American actors are still struggling to cla | 11/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRemembering Ultra-American Musician Leon Russell | Leon Russell passed away last week — he was 74. During the 1970s, he forged a musical career unlike almost anyone else’s before or since: an ultra-American mix of country, blues, gospel, and rock n’ roll, collaborating with musicians from all thos | 11/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanY’all, Youse, or Yinz? | On this week’s show, novelist Brit Bennett reads from her debut novel, “The Mothers.” Plus, Josh Katz gives us a tour of American regionalisms. And Leonor Caraballo and Abou Farman create art in the face of the cancer. | 11/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDJ Shadow’s Record-Breaking Album | Feature | 11/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThis Land is Trump's Land | This week: How a former reality TV star was elected president. Then, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith writes a poem inspired by a Baton Rouge protester. And we explore the creation of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.” | 11/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLive from New York, It’s Election Night! | Nobody defined the satirical style of “Saturday Night Live” more than Jim Downey. He wrote for the show for over 33 seasons and was SNL’s head writer for 10 years. Downey gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how SNL crafted political sketches throu | 11/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEugenia Cheng, Guilty Pleasures & Jacob Collier | On this week’s show, Eugenia Cheng whips up a delicious math lesson for Kurt. Plus, writer Sadie Stein defends one of the most detested words in the English language. Then, an art historian and a scientist explore the connection between bird plumage an | 11/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpooky Scary Studio 360: How to Make Your Skeleton Scary | Happy Halloween! Jack Handey, thinker of Deep Thoughts, takes on the ultimate holiday question: If a skeleton’s not scary, what’s the point of having one? He offers a few tips on how to make your skeleton live up to its reputation so you’re not bur | 10/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOh the Horror! | Spine-tingling tales from the Studio 360 crypt! “Evil Dead” director Sam Raimi talks about the horrors of Hollywood filmmaking. We audit Tom Savini’s course in decapitation and dismemberment. And the late, great Wes Craven revisits Elm Street and e | 10/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpooky Scary Studio 360: She Sees Your Every Move | In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive. Photographer Michele Iversen captures strangers in private spaces — without their permission. At night she sits in her car and watches the glo | 10/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpooky Scary Studio 360: Making Haunted Houses Scarier | In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive. Ike Sriskandarajah brings a story of how a composer’s visit to a haunted house made him realize there was a whole industry that needed better mus | 10/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpooky Scary Studio 360: Alice Cooper | In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive. No musician has died more often or more dramatically in front of more people than Alice Cooper. His highly theatrical rock shows have variously en | 10/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmerican Icons: The Lincoln Memorial | This is America's soapbox. Kurt Andersen looks into how the Lincoln Memorial became an American Icon. Sarah Vowell discusses the battle over Lincoln's memory, which lasted for three generations. Dorothy Height, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, re | 10/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrit Bennett on Church, Racism, and Her Novel “The Mothers” | Brit Bennett came to prominence in a way that was unheard of in the literary world a generation ago. She published a piece about racial justice in Jezebel in 2014, and it provoked a huge discussion online and demonstrated what a fine writer she is. Soon | 10/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSo You Think You're Creative? | We're always talking about creativity, but what do we mean? Can we find creativity, can we measure it, can we encourage it? Kurt talks with Gary Marcus, a psychology professor about what science tells us about creativity. A researcher puts jazz musician | 10/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Kandel, Snowblink, & “Walk on the Wild Side” | Neuroscientist Eric Kandel explains how art affects the brain. Plus, we find out why Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” is a work of non-fiction. And the indie duo Snowblink plays their dreamy music live in our studio. | 10/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
A Solidly Produced Program
Even the Atlanta metro area (oddly enough) has no stations that carry the full version of this program. But the podcast is solid and usually quite inspirational and thoughtful. Sometimes they nearly do give you the full hour. Highly recommended for those of us with short attention spans.
The stuff will round out your dinner conversations
If you're not naturally interesting, this show offers enough conversation fodder to keep you on the B or possibly A-list of socalite dinner parties. There's enough generalizing to make this enjoyable and to help you keep your bits brief, but Kurt also pulls from sources enough to make you feel like you've nibbled on substance. Usually the material will be something you've heard of tangentially and so it gives you updates on the familiar. Bravo. Very enjoyable.
i heart 360
listening to studio 360 is one of the highlights of my week. i listen in my kitchen, in my car...sometimes i take the long way to work just to hear what's next. 360 is not trying to be hip (thank goodness) or over the top. it is smart, funny, intriguing and i can't stop listening.
