They're trying to answer questions about upward mobility in America.

The military strategist, it was profiled brilliantly by somebody who was.

So I think if you could find the subculture of people.

With a kind of form of life on this planet that we haven't really seen before.

From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

It's a special show today.

We're going to bring you three conversations recorded live at the New Yorker Festival,

our annual bonanza of interviews and performances.

The director and producer Roger Corman is a truly unique figure in American movies,

and in the history of weird.

He talks about how important it is to have a message in your films

unless the film in question

is called Sharktipus. And Tony Colette shares the secrets of her success with the New Yorker's

Ariel Levy. But we're going to start off looking deep into the fiction and more importantly,

the reality of espionage. Now, the word spying still has this whiff of the Cold War about it, and it might

still call to mind the work of Ian Fleming, his James Bond character, or the novels of John

Le Carre. But clearly, as evidence from the events of this year, long after the Cold War, clandestine

operations between this country and Russia have never

gone away, and they've completely changed our history.

At the New Yorker Festival in 2013, staff writer David Gran sat down with a group of very

distinguished spies, and I'll let him make the introductions.

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