Great writers, great storytelling, invigorating ideas, art and social investigation
Jonathan Miller, director; Emma Thompson, actress; Alan Rickman, actor; William Trevor, fiction writer; Theodore Roethke, poet.
(Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage) Mrs. Worthing, Noel Coward; Welcome To The Theatr, from the musical APPLAUSE; Stravinsky; Prokofiev; Schoenberg; Debussy; Bartók; Charles Ives; Glenn Gould; John Cage; Thelonious Monk; Duke Ellington; Miles Davis Quintet; Sun Ra; Florence Foster Jenkins; Awesome; Magnetic Fields; Andrea Marcovicci; Of Montreal
Topsy Turvy, Shakespeare In Love, Children Of Paradise, 8 1/2, Los Olvidados, Tinsel and Sawdust, Being John Malkovich, Yasujiro Ozu, Guillermo del Toro
American Playhouse, A Moon For The Misbegotten; Aaron Sorkin; Slings And Arrows, CBC TV; The Singing Detective; I Claudius; Twin Peaks; Six Feet Under
Music The Arts and Ideas, Leonard B Meyer; The Idea Of Culture, Terry Eagleton; Being An Actor, Simon Callow; The Empty Space, Peter Brooke; National Service, Richard Eyre; The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien; Theodore Roethke; Thomas Pynchon; Dave Eggers; Sarah Vowell
Thomas Moore, Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Joyce, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr.