The 10 Best Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen Podcast Episodes
1) Extra: New York Icons: The Brill Building
For a few years in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, the heart of the music industry was an 11-story structure in midtown Manhattan: The Brill Building. There, and at the nearby 1650 Broadway, a group of...Show More
2) American Icons: The Disney Parks
Generations of Americans have grown up with Walt Disney shaping their imaginations. In 1955, Disney mixed up some fairy tales, a few historical facts, and a dream of the future to create an alternate ...Show More
3) The Crack Monster: The Mystery Behind Sesame Street’s Creepiest Cartoon
In the mid-1970s, Jon Armond was traumatized by something he saw on Sesame Street. It was a cartoon about a little girl who encounters creatures formed by the cracks on her bedroom wall — including a ...Show More
4) American Icons: The tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are so familiar they’ve become part of our cultural wallpaper. A raven croaking “nevermore?” An enemy bricked up in a cellar? A heart beating under the floorboards? These ima...Show More
5) American Icons: ‘Moby-Dick’
August 1 marks the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth. To celebrate, we’re revisiting our Peabody Award-winning American Icons hour on his masterpiece, “Moby-Dick.” Melville's white whale su...Show More
6) Extra: This Woman’s Work: ‘The B-52’s’
Here’s another edition of This Woman’s Work, a series of stories from Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360 where we highlight classic albums by female musicians, women who continue to influence the wo...Show More
7) This Woman’s Work: Patti Smith’s Horses
Studio 360 is teaming up with Classic Album Sundays for a series of storiescalled This Woman’s Work, highlighting classic albums by female artists. We'll talk about records that represent women musici...Show More
8) Remembering Agnès Varda
The trailblazing filmmaker Agnès Varda died on Friday of breast cancer at age 90. In tribute to her, we’re revisiting Kurt’s 2017 interview with Varda and her collaborator JR. Their Oscar-nominated mo...Show More
9) American Icons: Native Son
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10) American Icons: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
This is the story of America’s fight against authority. Ken Kesey had worked in a mental hospital, but his first novel was really a parable of what happens when you stand up to the Man—a countercultu...Show More