Hey listeners, we usually use this podcast feed to deliver all the conversations we have on my live

radio show, but today we're sending you a little something extra. Yesterday evening, WNYC Studios partnered

with Theater of War to do what theater of war usually does on a stage on the radio instead.

And what do they do? Well, they take pieces of important journalism and other

original source documents and present them by having top-tier actors perform readings from the

articles and documents and then hold discussions about them, sometimes including a reporter,

if it's a news article, sometimes including the actors, and always including questions and comments

from news consumers like you. In the coming months, WNYC and Theater of War are planning to have

three more of these programs in addition to the one you're about to hear. So follow WNYC and

Theater of War on social media to keep track of those upcoming live programs. And without further ado, here's the first edition of Theater of War on social media to keep track of those upcoming live programs.

And without further ado, here's the first edition of Theater of War on the radio.

From WNYC in New York.

This is Theater of War on the radio.

I'm Kai Wright.

It's good to be here.

Tonight we're going to do an experiment.

I'm joined in the studio by Brian Dorees, who is the artistic director of theater,

Theater of War, which he co-founded in 2009.

And Brian, explained to our listeners what we're going to set out to do together tonight.

Sure, thanks, Kai.

At Theater of War, we work with some of the best actors in the world to perform texts of all kinds,

from poetry to plays, to historic documents, to pieces of journalism, all in the service of sparking

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