Kate Hudson & Hugh Jackman, Friends Indeed, Jane Austen: A Novel Life

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

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4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tracy Smith catches up with Hollywood superstars Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman, who are working together for the first time in the new film “Song Sung Blue,” based on a real-life Neil Diamond tribute band. It’s their first television interview together about the highly anticipated project. Lee Cowan talks with award-winning actor Jason Sudeikis in Kansas City about supporting his friend’s charity that provides prosthetic limbs to amputees without health coverage. Seth Doane explores the remarkable resonance of Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen and her novels to mark the 250th anniversary of her birth. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this
0:07.0	complicated country.
0:08.8	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:14.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. Good morning. I'm Jane Paulie, and this is Sunday morning. Whether it's jingle bells,
1:02.8	silent night. Santa Claus is coming to town or any other familiar holiday tune. It's hard to go
1:09.4	anywhere this time of year without
1:11.1	hearing classic Christmas songs. So many of them are timeless. But why? How did
1:17.7	they become that way? This morning David Poe reveals the secrets behind the
1:23.0	sounds of Christmas. Writing a truly great Christmas song is really hard.
1:29.3	Mistletoe, no, that's been used so many times.
1:31.3	Reindeer, no?
1:32.3	What do you use that has been used a million times?
1:36.3	But this man has studied what makes the great ones great.
1:40.3	The two most popular themes in Christmas music are being happy and in love and being lonely and out of love at Christmas.
1:48.0	Ahead on Sunday morning, what makes great Christmas songs great?
1:54.0	Hollywood superstars Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman had never worked together before collaborating
2:02.8	on the new movie Song Sung Blue.
2:06.0	It's a tribute of sorts to a real-life tribute band, as they'll discuss with Tracy Smith.
2:15.9	For their new movie, Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman play two people who are singers,
2:20.3	survivors, and soulmates.
2:23.3	So how well do you know which other now?
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