'76 Days,' Fire Safety Tips, Bevy Smith, 'Vida Americana,' A Pakistani Influencer Murdered by Her Brother
One year ago, Wuhan, the city in Hubei Province, China where COVID-19 was first documented, went on lockdown. Two anonymous reporters covertly recorded inside a Wuhan hospital, where healthcare workers were too busy to monitor what they were capturing. The resulting documentary, "76 Days," directed by filmmaker Hao Wu, provides an intimate and dire look inside a hospital as it faced PPE shortages, uncertainty, and an onslaught of patients infected with a virus that, at the time, we knew almost nothing about. Hao Wu joins us to talk about making this film and his experience documenting the genesis of what would, months later, become a global pandemic.
WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us to give updates on the COVID-19 news her team is following this week, with a particular focus on the vaccine rollout in New York City.
With working from home and learning remotely, many of us haven't had the usual fire drills and safety information sessions that happen each year at the office or at school. For this installment of Ask An Expert, Lt. Frank Mannetta with the FDNY's Fire Safety Education Unit shares some tips about fire safety and prevention at home. Plus, we'll be taking listener calls.
Bevy Smith, host of Sirius XM’s Bevelations, joins us to discuss her new book about career reinvention titled, Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie.
[REBROADCAST FROM FEBRUARY 13, 2020] Curator Barbara Haskell and assistant curator Marcela Guerrero join us to discuss a new exhibit at The Whitney Museum of American Art called Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, which closes on January 31st.
Pakistani social media superstar, Fouzia Azeem, known by her stage name Qandeel Baloch, was killed in 2016. A new documentary put out by MTV Documentary Films explains the circumstances around her tragic death. Titled, “A Life Too Short,” the film was directed by Safyah Usmani and Saad Zuberi. Safyah Usmani joins us to discuss making the documentary.
