'Producers’ Picks': The War & Treaty, Julie Andrews's Memoir, Isabel Wilkerson, 'Life of a Klansman,' 'The Book of Delights'

We continue our recurring series profiling some of Team All Of It’s favorite segments, “Producers’ Picks.” Simon Close introduces a segment from October 13, 2020: The War and Treaty, labelled “one of Nashville’s hottest acts” by Rolling Stone, join us for a listening party for their new album, Hearts Town, and share an exclusive performance.

Up next in “Producers' Picks,” Katherine Milsop introduces a segment from October 19, 2020: Julie Andrews joins us along with her daughter, writer and producer Emma Walton Hamilton, to discuss her memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years. In this New York Times-bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as "Mary Poppins," "The Sound of Music," and "Victor/Victoria."

Next in our “Prodcuers’ Picks” series is Blakeney Schick introducing a segment from August 13, 2020: Drawing on examples in India and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson describes a similar, but uniquely American system of power that has created division and hierarchy in the United States for centuries in her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Jordan Lauf continues our “Producers' Picks” series introducing a segment from August 11, 2020: In this moment of reckoning with our nation’s history of white supremacy, author Edward Ball looks at the legacy of racism in his own family tree. He joins us to discuss his new book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History with White Supremacy, which explores the life of Ball’s great-great grandfather, Ku Klux Klansman Constant Lecorgne.

We end this installment of our “Prodcuers’ Picks” series with Ursula Sommer introdcuing a segment from February 12, 2019: Poet Ross Gay joins us to discuss his new book titled, The Book of Delights: Essays. This book was written over the course of one year, and each chapter depicts a different moment that he delighted in that day.