Episode 202: Andrea Riesborough, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Saving Italy

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week: Andrea Riesborough lets us in on a mystery… Fitz and the Tantrums spins a retro party playlist… Novelist Joanna Hershon starts off the summer in a 1960s yacht club… Italian pork is washing up on American shores – but it’s not the only kind of treasure from Lo Stivale… Etiquette from the Posts… […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:04.0	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.0	So here's a joke for my seven-year-old twin boys.
0:09.0	What's a mummy's favorite music?
0:12.0	I don't know.
0:13.0	Rap.
0:18.0	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.
0:20.0	I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download,
0:25.2	the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.
0:28.2	You just got a joke from author Joanna Hirshan, that'll help break the ice.
0:31.7	Her new novel is called A Dual Inheritance, and we'll hear her read from it later.
0:36.0	Also, we'll speak with actress Andrea Riceboro,
0:38.2	star the sci-fi movie Oblivion and the new spy drama Shadow Dancer.
0:42.2	Also coming up, you'll learn why America is about to be flooded with Italian pork.
0:47.1	Plus, neo-soul musician Michael Fitzpatrick provides some fashion advice.
0:51.1	Shoulder pads, everybody.
0:52.3	Shoulder pads.
0:53.4	They help protect you on the dance floor, you know, because no one will come up to you
0:57.1	if you're wearing shoulder pads.
0:58.4	That's sad.
0:59.2	But first, as at any dinner party, we start by accelerating directly into small talk.
1:06.5	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines?
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