'The Forty-Year-Old Version'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 5, 2020

What does a once-promising, now depressed, almost middle-aged playwright with no gigs do to revive her career? Make a rap record, of course. Radha Blank wrote, directed, and stars in "The Forty-Year-Old Version," a new film produced by Lena Waithe. Blank joins us to talk about her semi-autobiographical work that has the festival circuit buzzing.

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