Amber Gray in Hadestown

A Day of Producer Picks: Michael Palin, Bread, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, 'Hadestown,' Regina Spektor, 'STOMP'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 9, 2019

[REBROADCAST] Actor, writer, and comedian Michael Palin, best known as a member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, joins us to discuss his new book Erebus: One Ship Two Epic Voyages and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time. It tells the true story of a 19th century ship that embarked on two 19th century arctic expeditions and vanished for 150 years, until it was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014.

[REBROADCAST] Ask an Expert: The Bread Edition: Francisco Migoya, a leading expert on all things bread and co-author of the seminal 5-volume tome, Modernist Bread, joins us in studio to talk about, what else… bread!

[REBROADCAST] Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins us in studio to discuss her debut novel, Fleishman is in Trouble.

[REBROADCAST] Singer-songwriter and playwright Anaïs Mitchell, director Rachel Chavkin, and actor André De Shields discuss the Broadway musical, “Hadestown.”

[REBROADCAST] Regina Spektor performs her song "Prisoners" live in our studios.

[REBROADCAST] Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, the creators of “STOMP,” join us to discuss the show’s 25-year run at the Orpheum Theater.

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