Movies
‘Moonlight’ illuminates a new vision of the black community
“Moonlight” is more than just an LGBT story. It subtly redefines who and what the black community is. Yes, there is violence, ...
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The pinelands pipeline, exoplanets, and the Oscars
Guests: Joe Hernandez, Eric Jensen, Hillary Busis First up on today’s show: New Jersey green-lit a natural gas ...
Air Date: February 27, 2017
Listen 00:48:57Radio Times in Review: Mohsin Hamid, “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” Trayvon Martin’s parents
Guests: Sibryna Fulton, Tracy Martin, Diane Ackerman, Mohsin Hamid Coming up on this week’s edition of Radio Ti ...
Air Date: February 10, 2017
Listen 00:49:29Hollywood vs. Trump; first, Chelsea Manning
Guests: Dan Ozzi, Joe Concha, David James Jackson Presidential inaugurations have a long tradition of bringing so ...
Air Date: January 19, 2017
Listen 00:48:58Guests: Sonia Saraiya, Steven Hyden We continue our “Best of 2016” series by talking about the year-in-televi ...
Air Date: December 28, 2016
Listen 00:49:30Actor Dev Patel on his new film “Lion”
Guest: Dev Patel The new film Lion is based on the heart-wrenching true story of a young Indian boy, Sar ...
Air Date: December 23, 2016
Listen 00:49:14“Hidden Figures” and supporting women of color in STEM fields
Guests: Margot Lee Shetterly, Yvonne Darlene Cagle During World War II, NASA hired black female mathematicians to ...
Air Date: December 22, 2016
Listen 00:49:01Actor Dev Patel: from “Slumdog” to “Lion”
Guest: Dev Patel The new film Lion is based on the heart-wrenching true story of a young Indian boy, Saroo Brierl ...
Air Date: November 18, 2016
Listen 00:49:34Radio Times in Review: memoirist edition
Guests: William Giraldi, Richard Blanco, Bobby Rydell Coming up on today’s edition of Radio Times in Review, we ...
Air Date: November 18, 2016
Listen 00:50:19Now for our feature presentation: we’re going to explore the science of movie magic as seen on the big screen and behind the scenes ...
Air Date: October 14, 2016
Listen 51:39Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?
Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...
10 years ago
Listen 9:27‘The Birth of a Nation’ & Nat Turner
The film “The Birth of a Nation” directed, written and produced by Nate Parker tells the story of Nat Turner—a Virginia-bor ...
Air Date: October 12, 2016
Listen 00:48:59Parents, researchers fight to stamp out smoking on the big screen
Some kid movies are kicking the smoking habit. When a movie hero strikes a match and lights a cigarette, it means something. < ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:50Human voice is key to unlocking movie magic for the blind
There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:23Digital demands paradigm shift in film archiving
At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...
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