Financial journalist Duff McDonald explains how the consulting firm McKinsey & Company has shaped American business since 1926. Filmmaker Joe Berlinger on his new documentary about how former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson steered the economy through the financial meltdown 5 years ago. Jonathan Lethem talks about his latest novel, Dissident Gardens. Plus, during this Jewish holiday season, this week’s Please Explain is all about Yiddish!
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This week in Studio 360, taboos are broken. Jill Soloway talks about her film Afternoon Delight, in which a married woman brings home a sex worker to be her nanny. And in our series American Icons, we look at “Anything Goes,” Cole Porter’s enduring anthem to being naughty — we ...
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For this New Sounds program, we’ll listen to music inspired by birdsong, whether it’s by composers who are birders, or naturalists. Some of these sounds are electronically processed, and some are recreated acoustically. We’ll listen to Alaska-based John Luther Adams’ recording “Songbirdsongs,” where an ocarina imitates the birdsong, along with music from Tasmanian Ron Nagorcka played on digeridoo and with samples from the cockatiel family. Plus music from producer Chris Hughes, his “Slow Motion Blackbird,” and music from Maria Schneider as well.
