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Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen’s exit interview with Alec Baldwin

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt reminisces about his favorite Studio 360 interviews… and the time he was seduced by Matthew McConaughey.

Frederic Tuten

Frederic Tuten’s young life

Arts, Culture & Media

Remembering Susan Sontag

Arts, Culture & Media

Susan Sontag: Art That Means War

Arts, Culture & Media

On The Brink

Arts, Culture & Media
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BBC project saves endangered sounds

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Save Our Sounds, a new BBC project, features an online map of sound clips uploaded by people all over the world.

‘Studio 360: Art that Means War’

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Susan Sontag and others talk about how artists help us to make sense of war — from photography and books to poetry and film.

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