Black Watch, Blount, D.I.A.
This week in Studio 360, highlanders in the desert. Kurt Andersen talks with Gregory Burke about “Black Watch,” his play about a Scottish army regiment based in Iraq. The humorist Roy Blount Jr. obsesses over words and language, and even invents some of his own. And after a debilitating stroke, a woman regains her voice through song.
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