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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 178 - Gina Barreca's Fast Famous Women

The Musical Innertube

Release Date: 04/15/2025

The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 185 - Rebecca Turecky, Ned Phillips and The Last Partera show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 185 - Rebecca Turecky, Ned Phillips and The Last Partera

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The Last Partera is a film about a woman who was the last of her kind. We talk with Rebecca Turecky, who continues her work, and Ned Phillips, who helped document her life on film.

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 184 - Bill Trousdale's Summer Music Spectacular! show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 184 - Bill Trousdale's Summer Music Spectacular!

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Celebrate sun and sand and fun with these summer tunes curated by music historian Bill Trousdale! Plus: there's a contest!  And a singalong!

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Episode 183 - Amanda Gefter's search for Peter Putnam show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Episode 183 - Amanda Gefter's search for Peter Putnam

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Amanda Gefter was researching a famed physicist when she kept seeing the name "Putnam" in his journals. That led her to an unknown but brilliant scientist who came up with an explanation of how the human brain works.

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 182 - Lee Upton's Wrongful show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 182 - Lee Upton's Wrongful

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Explore with us the world of literary jealousy, a writer who's missing and presumed dead, and a detective who has no idea what she's doing. It's all part of Lee Upton's new novel, Wrongful

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 181 - Podcasters Mat Kaplan and Nick Roman show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 181 - Podcasters Mat Kaplan and Nick Roman

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Why should you start a podcast?  What kind of feedback can you expect? How hard is it to keep a podcast going?  Here's a fun talk with podcasters Mat Kaplan and Nick Roman about all that stuff

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BLAST FROM THE PAST - Jennifer Lin talks Ten Times Better show art BLAST FROM THE PAST - Jennifer Lin talks Ten Times Better

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Jennifer Lin's documentary about George Lee, who went from ballet student/refugee in Shanghai to the NYC Ballet, is now airing on PBS American Masters. Here's Jennifer talking about the film from late last year.

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 180 - Noel Rubinton show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 180 - Noel Rubinton

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Whether you've never heard of John McPhee - or are fascinated by his writing like Noel Rubinton - there's a lot to discover here, about McPhee and about Noel, who's new book is a study of McPhee's works.

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 179 - Robert Speel show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 179 - Robert Speel

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We find ourselves in a very strange place politically in 2025. How did we get here? Are the changes permanent? Here's some insight from political science professor Robert Speel.

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 178 - Gina Barreca's Fast Famous Women show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 178 - Gina Barreca's Fast Famous Women

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Writer, editor, teacher and humorist Gina Barreca is back with a new essay collection, Fast Famous Women. 75 stories about the famous told by women who admire them, study them - even want to be them!  

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 177 - Megan Timpane show art The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 177 - Megan Timpane

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Megan Timpane is an actress and corporate trainer. Ten years ago, Megan was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin's lymphoma. She dealt with her cancer the way any good actress would - writing and performing a play about her condition.

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Writer, editor, teacher and humorist Gina Barreca is back with a new essay collection, Fast Famous Women. 75 stories about the famous told by women who admire them, study them - even want to be them!