National Politics; MTA's Big Plans; The Eights | Media and Music in 1978; Atlas Obscura Picks
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 24, 2018
On today's show:
- Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker who writes the weekly online column, "Letter from Trump’s Washington,” talks about the latest political news;
- WNYC transportation reporter Stephen Nessen discusses the spending plan put forth by NYCT president Andy Byford that speeds up the timeline for modernizing the subways;
- John Schaefer, WNYC host of New Sounds and Soundcheck, and Kurt Andersen, cultural commentator and host of Studio 360, talk about some of the music and other media that defined the year 1978 and the emerging culture wars;
- Atlas Obscura's senior editor Ella Morton returns with some more of her favorite hidden gems from the Atlas Obscura trove.
And because 1978 was such a rich year for so many different genres of music, we made you a Spotify playlist!
