Episode 32: Lena Dunham Turns Thirty, and Memorial Day Malaise

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Lena Dunham talks about turning thirty and backing Hillary Clinton when her peers are feeling the Bern; and Amy Davidson gives us a history lesson on political conventions gone wrong.

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0:00.0	438.
0:04.0	I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation
0:11.0	like it.
0:12.0	It's making sure.
0:14.0	But maybe looking at this case, it could be an interesting process.
0:18.0	Okay.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production
0:24.6	of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:30.5	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:33.8	Recently, I asked a friend to join me on the New Yorker Radio Hour for a pretty big occasion.
0:39.8	So, Lena, in about two hours, you're going to be at your birthday party, celebrating your 30th birthday.
0:47.6	And so what we did is we brought into the studio a big giant bottle of champagne.
0:53.1	Let's see if we can uncork it.
0:55.6	Oh, my God.
0:56.3	And make the appropriate.
0:57.8	Sound.
0:58.9	There it is.
0:59.7	Yay.
1:00.6	Happy birthday.
1:01.9	Thank you, David. This means a lot. I've known you now for four birthdays.
1:05.8	That's right.
1:06.6	Just so you guys at home can see, it's a bottle of Manashevitz that he's poured for me.
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