Dr. Eric Kandel talks about the Obama Administration’s plans to jump start efforts to map the human brain. Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendent of John Jacob Astor, talks about her eccentric, fractured family. Billy Ray Cyrus describes his family and how his turbulent childhood led him to country music. Lydia Davis joins us for this month’s Leonard Lopate Show Book Club to discuss her translation of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
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In this episode: The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 book, Matilda, has opened on Broadway, and New York Times Chief Theater Critic Ben Brantley says it’s “the most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain.” We hear why.
Plus: We talk with the trainer behind some of Broadway’s most well known animal actors.
Plus: Iranian singer Bahar Movahed performs songs from her new album, Goblet of Eternal Light.
And: A profile of this week's Check Ahead artist - the slide guitarist and songwriter Luke Winslow-King.
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Watch out for more music for the duduk (a reed instrument indigenous to Armenia) than you can shake a stick at! We'll hear from the Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble, along with music from Andrew Cronshaw's latest cross-cultural collaboration (Armenian & British), "The Unbroken Surface of Snow," at times an unlikely combination of zither and duduk.
