The Olympics; Heat; Grit; and Jazz
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 5, 2016
The Summer Olympics get underway today, so this August Friday, hear a few of our favorite recent interviews, starting with three looks at the games in Rio:
- Journalist Juliana Barbassa, author of Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Dream, on the promise and disappointments in preparing for the Games;
- American boxer Claressa Shields talks about her return to Olympic competition after winning a gold medal as a 17 year old in 2012, and is joined by radio producer and filmmaker Sue Jaye Johnson who documented her triumph and its aftermath in the new documentary, "T-Rex";
- David Goldblatt explores how world history has interacted with that of the Olympic games;
Plus:
- Journalist Elizabeth Grossman, and the listeners, on working in high temperatures;
- Angela Duckworth on grit;
- Comedian Negin Farsad about combating anti-Muslim prejudice through humor; and
- Musician and physics professor Stephon Alexander explains how jazz explains the multiverse.
These interviews originally aired earlier this year. Links to the unedited audio are here:
- Corruption and Poverty in Rio Ahead of the 2016 Olympics (7/15/16)
- Claressa Shields is Back to Box at the Rio Olympics (6/13/16)
- A Social History of the Olympic Games (8/1/16)
- Outdoor Workers Suffer As Temperatures Rise (7/7/16)
- Measuring True Grit (5/3/16)
- Negin Farsad Knows How to Make White People Laugh (5/31/16)
- Using Jazz to Explain the Multiverse (5/13/16)
