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The Culture Show Podcast
A Boston-based podcast that thrives in how we live. What we like to see, watch, taste, hear, feel and talk about. It’s an expansive look at our society through art, culture and entertainment. It’s a conversation about the seminal moments and sizable shocks that are driving the daily discourse. We’ll amplify local creatives and explore the homegrown arts and culture landscape and tap into the big talent that tours Boston along the way.
Episodes
- The Culture Show Podcast
October 29, 2026 - Sarah Longwell, Gish Jen, and Kiernan Schmitt on Boston's Hidden Halloween Haunts
Political strategist Sarah Longwell, CEO and publisher of The Bulwarkand host of The Focus Group podcast, joins Jared to discuss How to Eat an Elephant: One…
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October 28, 2026 - Wednesday Watch Party: Hocus Pocus
For this month’s Wednesday Watch Party, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Joyce Kulhawik revisit Disney’s 1993 comedy Hocus Pocus. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica…
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October 27, 2026 - Aaron Tang on Breaking the Deadlock, Everett McCorvey, and Halloween decor
Can artificial intelligence transform society without putting our jobs, privacy, and safety at risk? Aaron Tang, constitutional law professor at UC Davis and…
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October 26, 2026 - Matthew Aucoin on Music for New Bodies, Donna Ferrato, and Amy Hwang on Women Laughing
Matthew Aucoin, the MacArthur Fellow and composer, explores mortality, technology and a planet in distress in his vocal symphony Music for New Bodies. Its…
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October 23, 2026 - Week in Review: You Can See Everything, Christiane Amanpour, and Bigfoot
This week on The Culture Show, Jared Bowen is joined by Culture Show Culture Show contributors Joyce Kulhawik and Lisa Simmons. Joyce Kulhawik is an Emmy-award…
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October 22, 2026 - Bill Barclay on The Chevalier, Sarah Trad, and Michael Cyril Creighton
Bill Barclay, founder and artistic director of Concert Theatre Works, discusses The Chevalier, his musical play about Joseph Bologne, the celebrated…
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October 21, 2026 - Mary Grant, Hocus Pocus in concert, and Bill Crisafi's Glam Reaper
Mary Grant, president of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, joins us for her monthly “AI: Actual Intelligence” segment, sharing original, algorithm-free…
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October 20, 2026 - Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band and Vanessa Bumpus on The Smile Gallery
Hank Azaria, Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian and voice artist, has spent decades creating characters on The Simpsons. Now he’s taking on another…
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October 19, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Laura Benanti, and The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Today on The Culture Show: Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston on personal and collective memory, from Día de los Muertos to the dangers of forgetting or…
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October 16, 2026 - Week in Review: Kelly Clarkson's Brooklyn shop beef, Shane Gillis, and Winnie the Pooh's 100th
Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Maurice Parent discuss the week's arts and culture headlines, including: Kelly Clarkson's feud with a Brooklyn novelty shop…
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October 15, 2026 - Emily Wilson on Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea, Stephen Greenblatt, and Nicholas Boggs
Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator of The Odyssey and The Iliad, discusses her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea, exploring how the literature of ancient…
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October 14, 2026 - Boston Lyric Opera at 50, Mahesh Daas, and Afternoon Tea
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, artistic director of the Boston Lyric Opera, and Bradley Vernatter, CEO and general director, preview the company's 50th anniversary…
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October 13, 2026 - Michael Lewis on "Blockers," The Nautilus, and Taylor Mac and Matt Ray on "Bark of Millions"
Bestselling author Michael Lewis discusses his new book, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State, about federal workers caught in DOGE's upheaval. He appears at the…
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October 12, 2026 - BSO President Chad Smith, Marc Brown on 30 years of Arthur, and Pedro Alonzo
Chad Smith, president and CEO of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, previews the 2026–27 season, which includes all six Tchaikovsky symphonies, three Stravinsky…
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October 9, 2026 - Week in Review: The Paramount-WB merger, Digger, and RM at SFMOMA
On this edition of The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, go over the week’s top arts and culture…
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October 8, 2026 - Gregory Maguire on "Galinda," Farm Fashion, and Dawn M. Simmons on "Covenant"
Author Gregory Maguire joins us to discuss Galinda: A Charmed Childhood, his new return to Oz exploring the privileged, ambitious and still-forming girl who…
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October 7, 2026 - Nathaniel Philbrick's "The Rush," America's Test Kitchen's "The New Cookie," and "Spamalot"
National Book Award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick joins us to discuss The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World, his…
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October 6, 2026 - Keith Lockhart, Martha Raddatz, and Risa Puleo and Kate Gilbert on the Boston Public Art Triennial
Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart previews the Pops’ fall and holiday lineup, including the third annual Día de Muertos concert and Holiday Pops beginning…
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October 5, 2026 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Old North Church, Jane Eaglen, and All My Sons at Lyric Stage
Nikki Stewart, Executive Director of Old North Illuminated, and Michael Maler, founder of Crescendo Productions, preview The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Musical…
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October 2, 2026 - The Culture Show Live from Salem: Celebrating 400 Years
The Culture Show broadcasts live from Salem as the city marks its 400th anniversary, with an hour exploring its history, culture and the people shaping it…
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October 1, 2026 - Cady Coleman, Banu Cennetoğlu, and Chris Vognar's fall TV preview
Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman joins us to talk about Astronauts for America, a group of more than 100 former astronauts working to defend the…
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September 30, 2026 - Wednesday Watch Party: Bridesmaids
For this month’s Wednesday Watch Party, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Joyce Kulhawik revisit Bridesmaids, the 2011 comedy that turns a wedding into a…
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September 29, 2026 - Hockney Reproduction(s), Chimes of Freedom at FARHOF, and CineFest Latino
David Hockney embraced reproduction as a way to discover art and share his own work with the world. Bing McGilvray, Hockney’s longtime friend, joins us to…
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September 28, 2026 - Suzanne Jackson, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, and Jill Medvedow on "The Slicks" and "My Pinup"
Artist Suzanne Jackson joins us as the MFA presents Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love, the first retrospective spanning her six-decade career — from her early…
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September 25, 2026 - Week in Review: Dolly Parton Day, Charles Spencer v. King Charles, and Choosin' Texas
On this edition of The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, go over the week’s top arts and culture…
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September 24, 2026 - Jill Lepore, John Wilson, and John Cusack
Jill Lepore discusses her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tracing the growing power of data, algorithms and private technology companies…
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September 23, 2026 - Chef Nicholas Dixon, Elisa Smith, and Julia Swanson
Chef Nicholas Dixon joins us to talk about Dalia, the South Boston restaurant recently named one of The New York Times’ 50 favorite restaurants in America —…
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September 22, 2026 - Altın Gün, Uli Lorimer from Native Plant Trust, and the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Altın Gün — The Amsterdam-based band draws on generations of Turkish folk songs, reshaping them through rock, disco and psychedelia. Members of the group join…
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September 21, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch at 25
Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston and co-chair of Everyone250, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence, our recurring series tapping local…
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September 18, 2026 - Week in Review: Macklemore v. Bob Kraft, Sydney Sweeney, and Bob Mackie
Jared Bowen is joined by Culture Show Contributors Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Joyce Kulhawik. Maurice Parent is an award-winning actor, Professor of the…
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September 17, 2026 - Doug Robb of Hoobastank, Mary Grant, and Hank Phillippi Ryan
More than two decades after “The Reason” turned Hoobastank into a mainstream phenomenon, frontman Doug Robb looks back at the song’s enormous success, the…
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September 16, 2026 - Elizabeth Alexander, Goodnow Farms Chocolate, and Patrick Page
Poet, essayist and Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander joins us to talk about her new book, Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales, which…
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September 15, 2026 - Emmys recap, Will Poulter and Adam Meeks on Union County, and the Boston Film Festival
Joyce Kulhawik: The Emmys have been handed out; now comes the verdict. Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic Joyce Kulhawik joins us to sort through…
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September 14, 2026 - Mahesh Daas, Jennifer Holliday, and Lecolion Washington of Handel and Haydn Society
Boston Architectural College President Mahesh Daas looks at two architectural experiments in how much change a place can absorb: centuries-old Japanese timber…
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September 11, 2026 - 25 Years of Arts and Culture in Review
On this week’s Culture Show, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Joyce Kulhawik mark the 25th anniversary of September 11. They look at how artists responded to…
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September 10, 2026 - Ball in the House, Kiernan Schmitt on college curiosities, and Tony V
Boston-based a cappella group Ball in the House joins Jared Bowen for an in-studio performance ahead of its September 11 show at Off Cabot in Beverly. The…
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September 9, 2026 - Poet Steve Biondolillo, Cantrip, and Sarah Longwell's book "How to Eat an Elephant"
Poet Steve Biondolillo, author of Macaroni and Cheese Manifesto: A Spiritual Memoir in Verse and founder of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, joins Jared…
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September 8, 2026 - Fabiola Méndez, Mikko Nissinen on 25 years at Boston Ballet, and Jackson Cannon on Pickle Week
Emmy-nominated Puerto Rican cuatrista, composer and singer Fabiola Méndez joins Jared Bowen ahead of Berklee’s inaugural Homecoming Block Party, September 19…
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September 7, 2026 - Patti Smith, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Robert Pinsky
Patti Smith, National Book Award–winning author of “Just Kids,” joins The Culture Show to discuss her latest memoir, “Bread of Angels.” The book traces her…
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September 4, 2026 - Week-in-Review: Gloria Steinem, Cassandra Wilson, and Making MapQuest Great Again
Callie Crossley is joined by Lisa Simmons, Artistic and Executive Director of the Roxbury International Film Festival and program manager at Mass Cultural…
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September 3, 2026 - Tracy K.Smith, "The Battle for Boston," and Dorie McCullough Lawson
Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. Poet Laureate discusses her book “Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times” — an invitation to listen, reflect, and let poetry guide us…
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September 2, 2026- Wednesday Watch Party: "Do The Right Thing"
Callie Crossley leads this month's Wednesday Watch Party with GBH’s Jeremy Siegel, host of In Common, and Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, Artistic and…
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September 1, 2026 - Bobbi Brown, Donnie Wahlberg, and Chef Aidan McGee
Bobbi Brown built a beauty empire on simplicity and self-expression. She joins The Culture Show to talk about her new book “Still Bobbi,” where she lays bare…
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August 31, 2026 - Inside MASTERPIECE'S "The Forsytes," Fabiola Méndez, and John Sayles' "Crucible"
A sweeping drama on MASTERPIECE brings one of Britain’s most famous literary families back to the screen. In “The Forsytes,” actors Stephen Moyer and Jack…
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August 28, 2026 - Week in Review: Remembering Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Yayoi Kusama
Joyce Kulhawik joins Lisa Simmons, Artistic and Executive Director of the Roxbury International Film Festival, and Culture Show producer Kate Dellis for a look…
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August 27, 2026 - Christopher Rothko, Ask E. Jean, and "Broken American Dream" with Daniel Paquette
Christopher Rothko joins us to discuss his donation of his father’s 1934 Gloucester Harbor painting to the Cape Ann Museum and what the early work reveals…
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August 26, 2026 - Remembering Dolly Parton with Paula Cole, Conversations with an Executioner, and corsets in Worcester
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Paula Cole joins The Culture Show to remember Dolly Parton, an artist she long admired and later collaborated with on “Heart…
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August 25, 2026 - Masquerade, Chef Ana Sortun, and Christin Geall on "Flora Culture"
Tony Award–winning director Diane Paulus, Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater, joins us to talk about “Masquerade,” an immersive reimagining of…
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August 24, 2026 - Sally Mann, Jeremy Sewall and being Henry David Thoreau
First up, Sally Mann. In 2015 renowned photographer Sally Mann published her memoir “Hold Still,” an inquiry into family history, the American South and the…
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August 21, 2026 - Week in Review: Hayden Panettiere, Columbia House Music Club, and Phoebe Bridgers' Mass. connection
Today on The Culture Show, it's our arts and culture Week in Review, featuring Callie Crossley and James Sullivan. Our topics include: Remembering Hayden…
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August 20, 2026 - Larkin McPhee, Pedro Alonzo, and Melissa Errico
Larkin McPhee joins us to discuss I’ll See You in My Dreams: A Sister’s Memoir, about her younger brother Charles McPhee, the nationally syndicated radio host…
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August 19, 2026 - Boston Arts and Culture Chief Joseph Zeil-Henry, Mary Grant, and Union Oyster House at 200
Boston Chief of Arts and Culture Joseph Zeal-Henry joins us to talk about what the city’s next cultural chapter might look like — from affordable rehearsal…
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August 18, 2026 - Richard Russo on "Under the Falls," Chef Barbara Lynch, and Imari Paris Jeffries
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo joins us to discuss his new novel, Under the Falls, about a rock star returning to the struggling upstate New…
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August 17, 2026 - Paula Cole, Chris Vognar on a new era of talk shows, and Working Coast - Below the Line
Paula Cole joins us to mark 30 years of her landmark album This Fire. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter reflects on songs including “I Don’t Want to Wait”…
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August 14, 2026 - Week in Review: DNF Debate, Potterheads' Win Duel With History, and Obama's Great Books
Jared Bowen is joined by Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, Artistic and Executive Director of the Roxbury International Film Festival, and GBH’s Jeremy…
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August 13, 2026 - Valerie Fridland, Phillip Kennicott and an afternoon at the opera with Jane Eaglan
Valerie Fridland, sociolinguist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, joins us to talk about her new book, Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind…
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August 12, 2026 - Judy Collins, Mahesh Daas on architecture and heat waves , and the North End Fisherman's Feast
Judy Collins joins us ahead of her “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: Farewell Tour”stop at Tanglewood on August 30, co-starring Mary Chapin Carpenter and Rosanne Cash…
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August 11, 2026 - Ask E. Jean, Justin Crane on the McKinley School, and The Jack of Hearts Club
For decades, E. Jean Carroll dispensed advice as a journalist, television personality and Elle columnist. Then she took Donald Trump to court—and won twice…
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August 10, 2026 - Emily Ruddock, Carl Sprinchorn Exhibition, and Big Little Books with a French 75 Twist
Federal arts funding cuts are hitting New England organizations in jobs, programs and dollars. Emily Ruddock, executive director of MASSCreative, joins Jared…
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August 7, 2026 - Week in Review: Ariana Grande, an AI summer camp, and John Cage's long awaited chord change
This week on The Culture Show, Jared Bowen is joined by Culture Show co-host Callie Crossley and Culture Show contributor James Sullivan, a journalist and…