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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Anna Deavere Smith (from broadway as well as Nurse Jackie, West Wing and Inventing Anna) is a deep thinker with an easy laugh—pretty much my favorite combination. She felt like an old friend from minute one. This heart to heart from the set of my PBS show, Tell Me More was followed by a conversation with Princeton professor Andrew Chignell who studies, among other things, hope and optimism, something Anna had a lot to say about. This is what we think of as a perfect Kelly Corrigan Wonders episode—a lot of feeling, a lot of thinking. Enjoy and share.

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0:00.0	Optimism says, huh, looks pretty good out there.
0:04.8	Things are going to be better.
0:06.0	But hope looks at the evidence and says,
0:09.0	it doesn't look good at all.
0:10.8	I'm going to make a leap of faith.
0:12.8	That's hope.
0:20.6	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:22.2	I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about actors
0:25.4	and what they can add to our understanding
0:27.6	about people and populations unlike our own.
0:31.0	My guest is Anna DeVier Smith, who I love.
0:34.8	I interviewed her from my PBS show Tell Me More.
0:37.8	I loved her in Nurse Jackie and West Wing
0:40.4	and most recently Inventing Anna.
0:42.6	She's also the brilliant creator
0:44.8	of a series of one-woman shows in which she becomes
0:48.6	a range of everyday people right in front of your eyes.
0:53.0	Join me for a conversation with Anna DeVier Smith.
0:57.6	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:07.2	We're kicking off a new series today featuring my interviews
1:17.2	from season three of my PBS show Tell Me More.
1:20.2	It's up right now and you can always watch new episodes
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