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Monthly Archives: June 2018
The Birth of Braveheart | Randall Wallace – Great Minds with Michael Medved
Michael Medved and long-time friend Randall Wallace discuss the fortunes of the once robust business of movie entertainment and the current exodus toward television. The ensuing conversation revisits the birth of the idea of Braveheart in a Scottish church, the initial meeting with Mel Gibson, and t
Source: The Birth of Braveheart | Randall Wallace – Great Minds with Michael Medved
BBC – Travel – Paul Theroux: on travel and travel writing
The godfather of contemporary travel writing tells us about the trip that made him fall in love with the world, as well as a reborn Hawaii and the influence of his son, Louis.
Source: BBC – Travel – Paul Theroux: on travel and travel writing
Anthony Bourdain’s Interview with David Remnick
Anthony Bourdain—the chef turned author, food anthropologist, and television star—died this week, at sixty-one. Bourdain made his début in The New Yorker in 1999, with an essay called “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” about working in the restaurant industry. {{}}It was an account of what really goes on in restaurants—extremely vivid, funny, gross, and, in parts, genuinely disturbing. After the success of that article, Bourdain went on to publish his best-selling memoir, “Kitchen Confidential,” a
* duration: 19:20, Played: 18:52
* Published: 6/8/18 8:00:00 AM
* Episode Download Link (18 MB): https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/tnyradiohour/tnyradiohour060818_podcastbonus_bourdain.mp3
* Show Notes: http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/anthony-bourdains-interview-david-remnick/
* Episode feed: The New Yorker Radio Hour – http://feeds.wnyc.org/newyorkerradiohour