Podcast Episodes featuring Anna Deavere Smith
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Art and Science for Change, with Anna Deavere Smith
StarTalk Radio - July 26, 2019 19:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratingsExplore how the intersectionality of art and science can spark cultural change with Neil deGrasse Tyson, actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, comic co-host Eugene Mirman, contemporary scholar Dorothy Roberts, primatologist Natalia Reagan, linguist Renée Blake, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. ...
Refugees, Immigrants, and Donald Trump: Viet Thanh Nguyen; plus Anna Deavere Smith on the school-to-prison pipeline and Rachel Kushner on women in prison
The Nation Podcasts - August 15, 2018 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsOne of the defining features of Trump’s politics has been the way he’s appealed to hatred and fear of refugees and immigrants. Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about refugee lives, and refugee writers. He’s the author of the novel The Sympathizer—it won the Pulitzer prize—and editor of the new book The Di...
Hey, Democrats Are Actually Running to Win! Joan Walsh on the Democrats’ new strategy, Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, and Anna Deavere Smith on the school-to-prison pipeline.
The Nation Podcasts - March 21, 2018 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsAfter years of getting beaten in state legislative races, the Democrats have a new energy and a new wave of candidates—especially after last year’s stunning victories in Virginia. Joan Walsh reports. Plus: Should Ivanka be indicted? She’s been part of some of the Trump administration's conspirac...
Ep. #450: Anna Deavere Smith , Vicente Fox
Real Time with Bill Maher - February 17, 2018 04:56 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 14.5K ratingsBill’s guests are Anna Deavere Smith, Vicente Fox, Fran Lebowitz, Salman Rushdie. (Originally aired 02/16/18)
Frank Rich on Donald Trump; plus Bill McKibben and Anna Deavere Smith
The Nation Podcasts - January 27, 2016 18:24 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsThe GOP establishment is moving toward accepting Donald Trump as their candidate, says Frank Rich—they think he will make deals with them, while Ted Cruz won’t. Also: Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, the global climate movement: he says the fight to end the fossil fuel era is happening almost i...
Sarah Lewis & Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures
Library Talks - March 12, 2015 19:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsArt historian and curator Sarah Lewis talks to award-winning actress Anna Deavere Smith about Lewis’s nonfiction debut, “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery,” which examines stories of innovation and discovery born from the unlikeliest of experiences. In a conve...
Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy
Science Talk - January 14, 2012 16:27 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 578 ratingsActor, playwright and journalist Anna Deavere Smith talks about the health care crisis and her play about people dealing with illness, health and the health care system, Let Me Down Easy
Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy
Science Talk - December 21, 2010 04:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 578 ratingsActor, playwright and journalist Anna Deavere Smith talks about the health care crisis and her play about people dealing with illness, health and the health care system, Let Me Down Easy
Anna Deavere Smith
Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS - November 13, 2009 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 363 ratingsWhile politicians and the media war over "the public option" and "bending the cost curve," acclaimed actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith and her one-woman play "lET ME DOWN EASY" give voice to questions of life and death, sickness and healthcare. And, the JOURNAl visits a new home in New York C...
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