Double Vision
In a special interview, Lucy Dallas meets artist William Kentridge to explore his new set of films.
'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, available on Mubi
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In a special interview, Lucy Dallas meets artist William Kentridge to explore his new set of films.
'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, available on Mubi
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Today’s great political film is John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece of Cold War paranoia The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which came out the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s a 1960s movie about 1950s fears: brainwashing, the Korean War, McCarthyism, all shot through with Kennedy-era anxieties about sexual potency and psychoanalysis. Who’s a Soviet agent? Who’s a mummy’s boy? And it managed to anticipate what was coming next in American politics: the age of assassination.
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Next time: The Leopard w/ Lucia Rubinelli
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This week, Oonagh Devitt Tremblay is intrigued by the multiple voices in Sarah Moss's new memoir; and Lucy Dallas speaks to artist William Kentridge.
'My Good Bright Wolf', by Sarah Moss
'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, streaming on Mubi
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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In today’s episode David discusses Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), a great patriotic anti-war film made in the depths of WWII. Why did Churchill want the film’s production stopped and was he right to suspect it was about him? What does the film say about the politics of nostalgia and the illusions of heroism? And how is Blimp’s moustache like Kane’s Rosebud?
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Next time: The Manchurian Candidate
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Neste episódio de podcast, mergulhamos no universo do fisiculturismo.
De acordo com a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), um humano adulto “comum” deve consumir algo entre 2.000 e 2.500 calorias por dia para se manter saudável e em forma. Para manter-se hidratado, esse humano também deve beber, pelo menos, dois litros de água.
Essas médias, porém, não se aplicam a fisiculturistas. Esses atletas vivem uma “gangorra fisiológica”, entre os limites do corpo humano, para perseguir um padrão super-humano de estética e forma física.
Afinal, o que faz as pessoas aceitarem rotinas extremas de alimentação e treinos na academia para provarem que são os indivíduos mais sarados e definidos do planeta? Quais são as consequências de se viver esse estilo de vida?
Entrevistados do episódio
Doutor em Ciências do Movimento Humano pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), educador físico, e pesquisador especializado em fisiculturismo.
Ficha técnica
Reportagem, produção e apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) is many people’s favourite film of all time, including Donald Trump’s. Why does Trump love it so? What does he get right and what does he get wrong about the trajectory of the life of Charles Foster Kane? What does the film reveal about the relationship between celebrity, influence and political power? And why is Rosebud not the real mystery at the heart of this story?
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Next time: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Em um relato pessoal, o youtuber, empresário e escritor Felipe Neto conta suas estratégias para combater o ódio do qual vem sendo alvo nas redes sociais e na vida neste 122º episódio do 451 MHz. Ele também relembra a política brasileira dos últimos anos e sua experiência com o mercado editorial, além de comentar ser fã de Stephen King e Harry Potter.
O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Companhia das Letras e da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura.
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This week, Yoojin Grace Wuertz celebrates this year’s Nobel Laureate in literature, South Korea’s Han Kang; and David Morley reads his new poem, and discusses the link between birds, music and poetry.
‘The Vegetarian’, ‘Human Acts’ and ‘Greek Lessons’, by Han Kang
‘Beethoven’s Yellowhammer’, by David Morley
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Today’s great political film is Frank Capra’s Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), a much-loved tale of the little guy taking on the corrupt establishment. But there’s far more to it than that, including an origin story that suggests Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) might not be what he seems. From filibusters to fascism, from the New Deal to America First, from Burton K. Wheeler to Harry S. Truman, this is a heart-warming film that still manages to go to the dark heart of American politics.
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Next time: Citizen Kane
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For the first episode in our new series David explores Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937), a great anti-war film that is also a melancholy meditation on friendship between enemies, love across borders, and the inevitability of loss. What, in the end, is the great illusion: war itself, or the belief that we can escape its baleful consequences?
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Next time: Mr Smith Goes to Washington
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This week, Lisa Hilton on the truth behind life as a 'grand horizontale'; and Juliette Bretan explores why Virginia Woolf served up boeuf en daube in To the Lighthouse.
'Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power', by Sonia Purnell
'Europe in British Literature and Culture', edited by Petra Rau and William T Rossiter
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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David talks to author Michael Lewis about SBF and EA: about the man he got to know before, during and after his spectacular fall and about the philosophy with which he was associated. What did Sam Bankman-Fried believe was the purpose of making so much money? How did he manage to get so side-tracked from doing good? Why when it all went wrong did he fail to save himself? A conversation about utilitarianism, risk and human weakness.
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis is out now in paperback with a new afterword https://bit.ly/3ZXr88u
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Next time: The Great Political Films: La Grande Illusion
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Durante a década de 60, quem queria escutar música internacional em solo brasileiro encontrava muita dificuldade. Boa parte dos discos de sucessos internacionais demoravam meses para serem lançados, ou, por disputas entre gravadoras, às vezes nem saíam no Brasil.
Para contornar esses obstáculos, as gravadoras nacionais passaram a investir numa solução caseira: jovens bandas e cantores brasileiros passaram a regravar os sucessos estrangeiros, geralmente assumindo nomes artísticos semelhantes que soavam como nomes gringos – e cantando somente em inglês.
Neste episódio de podcast, falamos sobre a ascensão e a queda dos falsos gringos, que foram febre na música brasileira dos anos 60 e 70.
Entrevistados do episódio
Cantor e produtor musical. Desde os anos 60 é líder do grupo de rock The Mustangs, depois rebatizado de Sunday. Fez sucesso nos anos 70 como cantor romântico, usando o nome artístico de Steve MacLean.
Jornalista e crítico musical.
Ficha técnica
Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
David checks in with Gary Gerstle one more time before November to explore where things now stand with the US presidential election. In a conversation recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Walz/Vance debate, they discuss dead cats, October headwinds, comparisons with 2016 and a president missing in action. Plus, if the result really is too close to call, can the American Republic survive the fallout?
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Next time: Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried and Effective Altruism
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O que podem os escritores diante da guerra? Neste episódio, o amazonense Milton Hatoum, um dos maiores ficcionistas brasileiros e descendente de libaneses, e o norte-americano Benjamin Moser, que é judeu e prepara novo livro sobre a história do antissionismo, discutem a guerra entre Israel e seus inimigos palestinos e libaneses, que completa um ano no dia 7 de outubro. Moser e Hatoum publicaram, respectivamente, um conto e um ensaio na antologia "Gaza no Coração: História, Resistência e Solidariedade Palestina", recém-lançada pela editora Elefante. O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Larry Wolff admires an opera propelled by drone warfare; and Edward Carey describes how a love of theatre inspired his new novel.
'Grounded', by Jeanine Tesori, libretto by George Brant, Metropolitan Opera, New York, until October 19
'Edith Holler', by Edward Carey
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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