High-Fashion Hijabs, Jill Soloway, and Bluesman Blind Joe Death
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From 38. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation. |
| 0:11.0 | It's pretty huge. |
| 0:14.0 | It's making sure. |
| 0:15.0 | It's pretty good if you have a source for it? |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, the telegraph. |
| 0:19.0 | From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:43.5 | Generations of guitarists have been obsessed with the work of the late John Fahey, |
| 0:45.9 | and later this hour we'll learn why. |
| 0:50.5 | And we're going to learn a thing or two about what feminists call the male gaze. |
| 0:55.5 | My colleague Judith Thurman visits the Muslim designer of some beautiful high-fashioned hijabs to talk about what it means to dress modestly in our not-so-modest culture. |
| 1:01.9 | And I'm going to talk with Jill Soloway, one of the most influential directors and one of the |
| 1:05.8 | most committed feminists working in television right now. Salay's show Transparent debuted in 2014, starring Jeffrey |
| 1:13.0 | Tambor as a person transitioning, rather late in life, to a new identity as a woman. I think it's |
| 1:19.3 | already joined that small list of TV shows like All in the Family or Blackish that capture an |
| 1:25.2 | issue that everybody's talking about and makes it more real through fiction. |
| 1:30.1 | Salloway's got a new show coming out on Amazon this spring, and if anything, it's even more provocative. |
| 1:35.4 | And we'll get to that in a minute. |
| 1:38.0 | Jill, Transparent is a phenomenon, and it's brought something new into our lives, |
| 1:42.2 | but through an old means using comedy, |
| 1:44.6 | family comedy, and poking at the narcissism of families. But politically, it's bringing something |
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