Archival Dive, Remembering 'Office Space,' An Improvised Hip-Hop Musical,...
Cal Newport discusses his book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Andy Lanset joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.” Joel Keller...
View ArticleOur Weekly Dive into the Archives
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.”
View ArticleJohn Turturro, Poet Maggie Smith, 'Solitude & Company,' 'Shout,' Women &...
Actor John Turturro talks about starring in the new film, “Gloria Bell,” with Julianne Moore. Poet Maggie Smith joins us for our ongoing poetry series. Journalist Silvana Paternostro discusses her new...
View ArticleGregory Pardlo, Lorraine Toussaint, An Hour of Food History
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo discusses his memoir, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America. Lorraine Toussaint talks about starring in the NBC series "The Village," which...
View ArticleAndy Lanset & the Archives
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.” This segment is guest-hosted by Nancy Giles.
View ArticleArchiving Terrorist Propaganda
Jihadology is a scholarly repository of jihadi videos, edicts, posters and speeches documenting first the breathtaking expansion and now dramatic setbacks of the self-proclaimed "Islamic caliphate"....
View Article'Andy in the Archives:' The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.” This week, we're taking a look back at the Triangle...
View ArticlePhilosophy Call-in, 'Killing Eve,' The Last Season of 'Veep,' 'Modernist...
Lee McIntyre, a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an instructor in ethics at the Harvard Extension School, and Ian Olasov, graduate student in...
View ArticleAndy in the Archives: 'Marcus Garvey: 20th Century Pan-Africanist'
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.” This week, we’re going to take a look at the life and...
View ArticleAlex Ross Perry, Andy Lanset on Marcus Garvey, A Woman Spying in WWII, Miriam...
Director Alex Ross Perry discusses his new film, “Her Smell.” Hanya Yanagihara, editor in chief of T magazine, gives us a preview of the magazine’s annual culture issue. New York Public Radio's...
View ArticleAndy Lanset Plays Cole Porter
Before the stars of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" join, WNYC's chief archivist Andy Lanset stops by with recordings of Porter himself.
View Article116 - The Bob Dylan Archive - A Curveball Comes To Tulsa
It may come as no surprise but Bob Dylan is a Keeper. Bob and his team have been archiving his music, notebooks, paintings and journey for some five decades. Thousands of artifacts comprise this...
View ArticleA New 'Andy in the Archives'-- Walt Whitman
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.” This week, he'll discuss WNYC's coverage of Walt Whitman...
View Article'Andy in the Archives' on the Plaza Hotel
New York Public Radio's director of archives Andy Lanset introduces clips that have dealt with the Plaza Hotel over the years.
View ArticleThe Challenges of Preserving Audio in the 21st Century
Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong were just a handful of the legendary musicians who had master recordings destroyed eleven years ago in a fire at Universal Studios.At...
View Article118 - The Nation's 10th Keeper—David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
“From the very beginning the intent was that the American people needed to be able to access the records so that we would be able to hold the government accountable for its actions.” David FerrieroWe...
View Article'Andy in the Archives': Stonewall
A new "Andy in the Archives" with WNYC director of archives Andy Lanset, focused on the legacy of Stonewall.
View ArticleAndy in the Archives: Audio Documentaries
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.” This week, we’re going to take a look at the station’s...
View Article'Andy in the Archives'
Andy Lanset, WNYC director of archives, joins us to discuss the 50th anniversary of "Sesame Street."
View Article'Andy in the Archives:' RICO
For this week’s “Andy in the Archives” segment, we’re speaking with Andy Lanset, director of NYPR’s archives, about how the tobacco industry violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations...
View Article'Andy in the Archives'
New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives."
View Article131 - Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns
Since we started our intern and mentoring program in 2000, over 100 young people, ranging from age 15 to 35, have come through our doors at Kitchen Sisters Central in the historic Zoetrope building in...
View ArticleIf He Walked Into My Life
The number of tributes to Jerry Herman, who died last week at the age of 88, is already sizable and continues to grow. And understandably so: the late composer-lyricist created more than a dozen...
View ArticleMoney, Power, Glory
The showdown for the Democratic nomination continues, and the gloves have come off. This week, On the Media examines the conflicting narratives around how each candidate raises money. Plus, how changes...
View Article136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson
Lou Reed—music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. Lou died in 2013 and left not a word of instruction about what he wanted done...
View Article137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress, Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians....
View Article143 - The McDonogh Three—First Day of School
November 14, 1960, New Orleans. Three six-year-old girls, flanked by Federal Marshals, walked through screaming crowds and policemen on horseback as they approached their new school for the first...
View Article144 - 95,000 Names—Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline
In 1985, Gert McMullin was one of the first San Franciscans to put a stitch on the AIDS Quilt, the quilt that began with one memorial square in honor of a man who had died of AIDS, and that now holds...
View Article145 - Louis Jones, Field Archivist, Detroit
Louis Jones, Field Archivist, is a Keeper. For 27 years he has worked building and caring for the largest labor archive in North America—the Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit. Home...
View ArticleImagining the Museum of 2020
Surely this year's chaos — pandemic, revolution, election, recession — will be seen as singular and historic by future generations. But how exactly will they remember it? What will be in the Museum of...
View ArticleListening Party: A New Joni Mitchell Archival Album
On March 19, 1968, a relatively unknown 25-year-old Joni Mitchell performed a concert at Le Hibou Coffee House in Ottawa, Canada. The performance was recorded and engineered by a 26-year-old by the...
View ArticleFrom the WNYC Archives: the Holidays in NYC
We go back into the WNYC archives to hear what the holidays sounded like in New York City back in the day. We play clips of old broadcasts from interviews with Santa Claus, the sounds of carols and...
View ArticleA History of HBO, the Never-Ending Popularity of 'The Sopranos,' Jared Leto,...
How did HBO become the powerhouse behind some of the most acclaimed television ever created, changing the way we think about TV forever, and creating household names out of relative unknowns? That's...
View Article181 - The Accidental Archivist—Keeping the Wooster Group
The Wooster Group, perched on a street corner in Soho in downtown New York, at the forefront of experimental theater for some 40 years. Singular, rigorous, flamboyant. Their startling performances...
View Article(No Football) Superbowl Recap; New Yorker's Perception of Crime; Trump and...
Mayor Adams urged all New Yorkers to reserve judgement about his Blueprint to End Gun Violence until they read the actual plan. So let's read it and talk about it together on the show. Here are some...
View ArticleTrump and the Presidential Records Act
Josh Dawsey, a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post, discusses new reporting questioning Donald Trump's adherence to the Presidential Records Act, which requires the...
View ArticleA Mueller Probe Lawyer Explains The Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant
We asked a lawyer who's very familiar with Trump-world to explain what it means that the FBI recovered presidential records from the former president's private residence.On Today's Show:Andrew...
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A Noteworthy History of the New York Philharmonic
From October 17-23, WQXR is celebrating the New York Philharmonic and the re-opening of its newly-renovated home, David Geffen Hall, with great recordings and memorable stories. The New York...
View ArticleThe 2022 IASA Conference in Mexico City
In 1997 Mexican poet and politician Octavio Paz moved to the Casa Alvarado, a house in Mexico City’s verdant district of Coyoacán. Paz, a Nobel-prize laureate, thus moved to a neighbourhood that...
View ArticleHistorical Fictions
A billion dollar defamation lawsuit has given the public an unprecedented view into the inner workings of Fox News. On this week’s On the Media, how the network’s election falsehoods reveal the...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Jimmy Carter Reflects on China and on Human Rights
Just over a week ago, the Carter Center announced that Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care. To conclude our series of excerpts from interviews with the former president on The Brian Lehrer Show...
View Article220 - Archiving the Underground — Hip Hop at Harvard & Cornell
We delve into the story of the founding of the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard by Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor Henry Louis...
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