Passover Cooking, New Music from Ben Howard, André Holland and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Misty Copeland, Ethical True Crime

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Mar 29, 2021

New York Times food columnist and cookbook author Melissa Clark joins us to discuss Passover recipes, holiday cooking, and take listeners’ calls. 

On his new album, Collections From the Whiteout, singer-songwriter Ben Howard teamed up with The National’s Aaron Dessner on writing and production. Many of the songs were inspired by unusual news stories and real-life figures. Howard joins us for an All Of It “Listening Party.”

This year, the Williamstown Theatre Festival is being presented by Audible and its latest audio play is titled, “Paradise Blue.” Starring André Holland and Blair Underwood and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the play is set in 1949 and tells the story of a changing neighborhood in Detroit. André Holland and Ruben Santiago-Hudson join us to discuss the production.

[REBROADCAST FROM OCTOBER 21, 2020] Ballerina Misty Copeland, who in 2015 became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater's 75-year history, joins us to discuss her new children's book, Bunheads, the first in a series of picture books inspired by Misty's own early experiences in ballet.

Crime writer and podcaster Rebecca Lavoie, joins us for the next installment of our ongoing “Review/Preview” series to discuss the best ethical true crime podcasts, defined as those that focus on storytelling and reporting without being salacious and exploitative of victims.

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