#176 — Knowledge & Redemption

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Lynn Novick about her four-part documentary "College Behind Bars." The film follows the progress of students in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) as they pursue their undergraduate degrees. Sam and Lynn are joined by Jule Hall, a BPI graduate who served a 22-year sentence and is now working for the Ford Foundation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:03.6	This is Sam Harris.
0:05.4	Okay, no housekeeping apart from the now recurring reminder that if you're supporting the podcast,
0:12.4	please get the private RSS feed.
0:15.1	If you're listening to this in your podcasting app and you see a black making sense icon,
0:21.7	you do not have the private feed.
0:24.2	So please log in at samherris.org, go to the subscriber content page and take the short
0:31.8	steps to getting our actual subscriber feed.
0:36.0	That doesn't matter right now, but it will matter pretty soon.
0:40.0	Okay, today I'm speaking with Lynn Novick and Jewel Hall.
0:46.2	Lynn is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker.
0:50.9	She has been producing and directing documentaries for nearly 30 years, very often in collaboration
0:57.4	with Ken Burns and Lynn and Ken were on this podcast not too long ago talking about their
1:05.1	18-hour documentary, The Vietnam War.
1:08.3	And of course they've done baseball and jazz and Frank Lloyd Wright and the war and
1:14.2	prohibition.
1:16.2	I believe Lynn worked with Ken all the way back to his truly groundbreaking documentary,
1:21.3	The Civil War.
1:23.4	But this new film is Lynn's solo directorial debut and it's a four-hour documentary
1:31.0	series that she produced with Sarah Bonstone and the film is college behind bars.
1:39.6	And it really is an extraordinary documentary.
1:43.6	As you'll hear, it fairly blew me away.
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