'Exterminate All the Brutes,' 'The Recent East,' Full Bio, Lincoln Center's Restart Stages, Richard Thompson

Director and writer Raoul Peck joins us to discuss his new four-part docuseries, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” which comes out on HBO April 7. Based on three books: Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past, the series reframes the exploitative and genocidal histories of European colonialism and its lasting impact on society.

Tom Grattan joins us to discuss his new novel, The Recent East, about a mother and her two teenagers who move to East Germany from upstate New York shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In the final installment of our latest “Full Bio” series, Mark Harris, author of Mike Nichols: A Life, discusses Nichols's struggles with depression, his four marriages, and his lasting influence on American entertainment.

This week, Lincoln Center launched the initiative Restart Stages, with which they plan to create various outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces. Jordana Leigh, senior director of artistic programming, joins us to explain the initiative.

In his first memoir, celebrated guitarist Richard Thompson writes about his early life and co-founding the band Fairport Convention, plus offstage encounters with contemporary rock luminaries like the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. Thompson joins us to discuss Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975.