The Golden Hour of Satire, The Sound of The Takeaway, Exploring The Nature of Hope

Coming up on today’s show:

• Between the 2016 election and the constant tweet stream from President Donald Trump, late night comedians have plenty of material to work with. But is this golden moment of satire losing its luster? It’s a question explored in the latest issue of The Point magazine. Jon Baskin, one of the founding editors of The Point, weighs in. 

• Charlotte Salomon was a German painter killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 26. Her tragic life story has largely overshadowed her work. This year marks the 100th anniversary of her birth, and three major books of her work are set to be published, along with the first exhibition of all her work. Mary Felstiner, a professor of history at San Francisco State University and author of “To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era,” weighs in. 

• Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday and The Takeaway, drops by to review the big new releases hitting the box office this weekend, including “The Glass Castle,” a family drama; the dance documentary “Step”; the horror film “Annabelle: Creation”; and the animated sequel “The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature.”

• Photographer Sarah Takako created the “Hope Is Project” as a way to understand the nature of hope. Her goal is to inspire a global conversation about hope. Along with Takako, Drew Faithful, a transgender male, talks about his participation in the project and his vision of hope.

• Part of what makes The Takeaway The Takeaway is the way the show sounds. Jay Cowit, technical director of The Takeaway, sat down with John Hockenberry to discuss the things that have worked and helped to define a show that thinks outside of the sound of traditional public radio, and the things that haven’t.

• For nearly 10 years, John Hockenberry has been the voice of The Takeaway. On his last day as host of the program, John looks back on his tenure with the show, and how it’s changed and evolved over the last decade.