On today’s show: The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin discusses how law enforcement is using your license plate to track you. We kick off our new series, Globavores, about the travels of food from the Columbian Exchange—this week we’ll discuss the tomato with culinary historian Andrew Smith and chef Lidia Bastianich. Lois Lowry on her latest novel, The Son. Daniel Botkin argues that we need to reassess our global conservation policies.
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Have you ever broken down in tears while watching a movie with especially emotional music? Is there a scene from a film that makes you sob every time you hear the song? Kristen Meinzer and Rafer Guzman, co-hosts of the weekly podcast Movie Date from WNYC's The Takeaway, drop by to talk about movies with sad music.
Then, this year Yo La Tengo's album I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One quietly turned 15 years old. Writer Jesse Jarnow, author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo And The Rise Of Indie Rock, gives perspective on the lasting influence of the iconic 1997 record.
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For this New Sounds, we'll dive into music from South America, with much of it from Brazil & Argentina. We’ll hear some selections from the compilation from the Red Hot organization: “Red Hot and Rio,” Vol. 2, including music from Caetano Veloso, remixed by Prefuse 73, David Byrne with Caetano, and Beirut performing a Caetano song, "o Leaozinho."
