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The Dinner Party Download

340: Jeff Nichols, Lauren Weedman, Tindersticks

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Southern filmmaker Jeff Nichols (“Mud,” the new “Midnight Special”) brings sci-fi down to earth, then offers up some pearls of wisdom… One of the art world’s bright lights, Dan Colen, muses on his new visions– part-Disney, part-J.M.W. Turner… Scene-stealer and storyteller Lauren Weedman tells a tale of moms and “Miss Fortune”… We recall the day […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker.

0:05.0

Okay, here's the joke. Why should you never trust an Adam?

0:10.0

Why? Because they make up everything.

0:13.0

I'm Rico Galliano.

0:18.0

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from AP, American Public Media, this is the dinner party download.

0:24.1

The best arts, culture, and food of the week, delivered in tidy one-hour audio form.

0:28.5

Yes, you just got a teeny joke from filmmaker Jeff Nichols, the mind behind indie hits like mud.

0:33.2

We'll chat with him later about his new film, The Sci-Fi Drama Midnight Special,

0:40.5

plus English pop band Tinder Sticks DJ Your Dinner Party.

0:45.6

Also coming up, actor and writer Lauren Weidman tells us about the concert that saved her family life.

0:49.3

Plus, advice columnist Heather Havarleski gives us silent treatment.

0:50.9

We'll make it work for radio.

0:52.4

But first, small talk.

0:57.0

All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.

1:01.9

The subway system for Washington, D.C. will shut down for 29 hours.

1:08.0

European leaders gather in Brussels tomorrow to finalize a plan to push migrants and refugees back to Turkey.

1:11.4

The nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1:13.2

Now for something you might not have heard.

1:14.5

We are speaking with Danielle Henderson.

1:19.8

She is a freelance culture writer writing for outlets like Vulture and many, many more.

1:23.4

Danielle, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this week?

1:29.0

Well, this week there was a controversy in cycling, believe it or not. Oh, what a surprise.

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