'Producer Picks' Week: 'Crip Camp,' 'Dick Johnson Is Dead,' Langhorne Slim, 'Hamnet'

All this week, we present "Producer Picks." Each day, a member of team All Of It curates their favorite recent conversations and tells some behind-the-scenes stories. Today's picks come from our Producer Jordan Lauf.

[REBROADCAST FROM March 24, 2020] Directors Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht discuss their Netflix documentary, "Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution," which tells the story of a summer camp in upstate New York for children with disabilities that helped ignite the disability rights movement.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 6, 2020] In order to cope with the end of her father’s life, documentarian Kirsten Johnson tried something unusual: staging various versions of her father’s death and filming them. Johnson joins us to discuss the resulting documentary, “Dick Johnson Is Dead.”

[REBROADCAST FROM January 27, 2021] An album released in January 2021 by singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim deals with COVID-19, his own struggles with anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and recovery. He joins us to discuss his album, Strawberry Mansion, and provides an exclusive performance.

[REBROADCAST FROM May 28, 2021] The 2020 novel Hamnet won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times. Author Maggie O’Farrell joins us to discuss the novel, which fictionalizes the death of Shakespeare’s beloved son, Hamnet, and the writing of his legendary play, “Hamlet.” Hamnet is now available in paperback.