A Raisin in the Sun

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is a special one. Our friend, Dr. Annika Prather, came on to chat about Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. Dr. Prather loves this play and is very knowledgeable about literature and so she seemed like the perfect fit to join Tim, our drama guy, for this conversation. So tune in as Tim and Dr. Prather discuss whether Walter Jr. is a hero or a villain; whether this a play about money, family, or dignity; and whether Hansberry identified especially strongly with any particular character.

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0:00.0	Baby, this is a fly-by-night operation. I mean, we got this thing figured out me, Willie and Bobo.
0:05.0	Bobo? Yeah.
0:07.0	Look, we figured the initial investment on the place to be about $30,000. That's $10,000 apiece.
0:12.0	Now, of course, we got to spread around a few hundred so it's not to spend your life waiting for them clowns to let your license get approved.
0:18.0	You mean graft.
0:19.0	Call it that. It goes to show you how much women know
0:23.0	about the world. Baby, don't nothing happen for you in this world unless somebody gets paid on.
0:28.1	Walter, leave me alone. Eat your eggs. You're going to be cold. See? A man say there's woman,
0:35.8	I got me a dream. She says, eat your eggs. They're getting cold.
0:39.6	Man say this woman, help me now to take a hole in this world somehow, and she says, eat your eggs and go to work.
0:44.3	I tell you, I got to change my life because I'm choking to death, and all you say to me is eat these eggs.
0:57.2	Hello, and welcome to Close Reeds. I am Tim McIntosh, and we have a special episode.
1:02.5	It's just me and a special guest today, David and Heidi.
1:07.5	We are going to be back next week.
1:10.0	We are doing a special one-off episode on a play, a Raisin in the Sun.
1:16.4	And our special guest today is Dr. Anika Prather.
1:21.2	I'm going to tell you a little bit about her in a second, but I first just want to welcome her.
1:25.0	Dr. Prather, welcome to the show.
1:26.9	It's a real honor to have you on. Thank you. I'm honored to be here to talk about my favorite play.
1:32.0	I'm going to ask you, among many other things that I'm going to ask you, why it's your favorite
1:36.3	play. So have your like home run answer, you know, ready to pull out of your backpack because I'm really curious because well okay I'm going to
1:44.9	stop I'm not rave yet about the play but I'm going to rave about the play in a second and it
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