Episode 280: Bryan Ferry, Aasif Mandvi, and Jessie Ware
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Roxy Music rocker Bryan Ferry explains capital-A Art … Lynne Rossetto Kasper takes a seat at our Splendid Table … One of the nation’s most-acclaimed poets, Billy Collins, invents some words … Aasif Mandvi of “The Daily Show” channels MJ to unite a crowd … Singer Jessie Ware gets sassy … Beer writer William Bostwick on beers from watered-down […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | How does the moon cut his hair? |
| 0:07.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:09.0 | Eclipse it. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Noonam. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media. This is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:22.7 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:24.3 | You just got a joke from writer William Bostwick |
| 0:26.6 | that will help break the ice. |
| 0:28.3 | His latest book is called A Brewer's Tale, |
| 0:30.6 | A History of the World, According to Beer. |
| 0:32.9 | We'll speak to him later about some weird things |
| 0:34.9 | happening in the world of beer. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, we'll chat with a guy who probably favors martini's over logger, musician Brian Ferry, |
| 0:41.4 | talks art, rocksy music, and his new album, Avon Moore. |
| 0:44.6 | Also coming up, we hear from another British pop sensation. |
| 0:47.6 | This one a little younger, Jesse Ware shares her dinner party soundtrack. |
| 0:51.5 | Then the Daily Show's Asif Mondvi tells us a story and former poet laureate |
| 0:55.3 | Billy Collins waxes, well, poetic. So let's get started as at any dinner party with Smalltalk. |
| 1:04.3 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Historic cold for this time of the year. |
| 1:08.5 | We had 86% of the lower 48 below freezing. The Hunger Games |
| 1:12.2 | Mocking Jay Part 1 hits theaters. Today, Obama said the nation needs an immigration system that, quote, |
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