Not All Propaganda is Art 8: Signature Acoustique

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

]Richard Wright died from a mysterious illness on November 28th, 1960. Or was he murdered? Tune in for a new listen to the final chapter of Richard Wright’s life: forged letters, fake terrorist groups, fraudulent doctors and French Radio.

Shownotes: Françoise Vergès writes about decolonialism, and French history and thought, Kathleen Gyssels is writing about the Moulin d’Andé. Thomas Riegler writes about the Red Hand, Madeleine S’s father was assassinated by the Red Hand, Lauren du Graf wrote about Richard Wright and Jean Paul Sartre, Richard Wright’s daughter Julia Wright published The Man who Lived Underground in 2021. Richard Gibson is a BIG BIG LIAR.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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0:21.4	fm. Thanks.
0:24.0	I'm Alex Schwartz.
0:25.0	I'm Nomi Fry.
0:27.0	I'm Vincent Cunningham and this is Critics at Large.
0:30.0	A New Yorker Podcast for the Culturally Curious.
0:32.0	Each week we're going to talk about a big idea that's showing... a New Yorker podcast for the culturally curious.
0:32.6	Each week we're going to talk about a big idea that's showing up across the cultural landscape
0:36.7	and we'll trace it through all the mediums we love.
0:38.7	Books, movies, television, music, art.
0:41.5	And I always want to talk about celebrity gossip too.
0:43.8	Of course.
0:44.8	We hope you'll join us for new episodes each Thursday.
0:47.8	Follow critics at large, today, wherever you get podcasts. Pácah. Previously on, not all propaganda is art.
1:04.0	During the Cold War,
1:06.0	Richard Wright was one of many African American artists
1:09.0	who moved to France to escape American racism.
1:12.0	Men are not prejudged here on the basis. of France to escape American racism.
1:13.0	Men are not prejudged here on the basis of their skin color
1:16.1	or nationality, and I have never heard a Frenchman tell anybody
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