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

So Sir Walter Raleigh comes back from America with a present for Queen Elizabeth I.

And she says, what is it? And he said, well, you roll it up, and she rolls it up.

And he says, you light the end of it it and she lights the end of it and she starts

coughing and she says that's disgusting what is it and he said it's a potato I'm Brendan

Francis Nuneum I'm Rico Gagliano and from APM American Public Media this is the dinner party

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the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.

You just got a joke from writer Nick Hornby.

That'll help break the ice.

He wrote the new movie Wilde, and we'll speak with him later.

Plus, we'll speak with actor Michael Sarah about actor Gene Wilder

talking about the great film director, Jean Renoir.

It's a Babushka-Dolvin interview.

Exactly.

Musician Connor Oberst evokes the clash, and we talked to punk legend Viv Albertine,

who dated members of the clash. But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talks.

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

House lawmakers passed a bill that would roll back President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

A huge march is planned following a grand jury decision to clear the NYPD officer for the death of Eric Garner.

The embarrassing corporate hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Now for something you might not have heard, we are joined by Anna Sails.

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