Episode 53: Putting Trump in the White House, Playing Andrew Bird in the O.R.

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David Remnick
The New Yorker Radio Hour | Oct 21, 2016

At the 2016 New Yorker Festival, a panel of experts from across the political spectrum discusses the hypothetical first term of President Trump. And Atul Gawande, a surgeon and self-avowed music nut, talks with Andrew Bird, whose music Gawande plays in the operating room. Bird discusses “Puma,” a song about the radiation therapy his wife was given after she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and performs two numbers live.  

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