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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
August 6, 2026 - Cellist Matt Haimovitz, Claudia Rankine on "Triage," and The Great Elephant Migration
Cellist Matt Haimovitz discusses Neighbors, a three-track EP created after federal immigration operations brought fear and protest to his new home in the Twin…
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August 5, 2026 - Dylan Gottlieb's "Yuppies," Natalie Lemle's "Artifacts," and Plays in Place with Patrick Gabridge
Historian Dylan Gottlieb discusses Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York, which traces how ambitious young bankers…
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August 4, 2026 - Paul Giamatti and John Turturro on Rhinoceros, Cookie Queens, and Jazz Urbane Cafe
Paul Giamatti and John Turturro discuss the American Repertory Theater’s production of Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros.Directed by Diane Paulus, the darkly comic…
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August 3, 2026 - TV Goes to the Movies at the Brattle, Boston's sporty public art, and Dear Evan Hansen
The Brattle Theatre’s TV Goes to the Movies series explores how filmmakers have portrayed television news, corporate power and journalistic ambition. Boston…
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July 31, 2026 - BTS snubs the Grammys, sad girl summer, and Zendaya's ancient earrings
This week on The Culture Show, Jared Bowen is joined by Co-host Callie Crossley and Culture Show Culture Show contributor Joyce Kulhawik. Joyce Kulhawik is an…
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July 30, 2026 - Angela Peri and Lisa Lobel on casting Widow's Bay, Mary Grant, and Bones of the Statue of Liberty
Angela Peri and Lisa Lobel discuss finding the New England faces who populate Apple TV’s horror comedy Widow’s Bay. Their work on the series earned them their…
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July 29, 2026 - Wednesday Watch Party - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
For this month’s Wednesday Watch Party, Jared Bowen is joined by Culture Show co-host Callie Crossley, host of GBH’s Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, and…
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July 28, 2026 - Emily Wilson on The Odyssey, Kevin Nealon, and Laurie Anderson
Emily Wilson, professor and chair of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how her acclaimed translation of The Odyssey helped shape…
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July 27, 2026 - Kerri Maher on Summer of Love, Hany Farid, and Fazendo a América at the MFA
Kerri Maher discusses her new novel, Summer of Love, which moves between 1967 San Francisco and the present, tracing how the freedoms, ambitions and upheavals…
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July 24, 2026 - Week in Review: The Odyssey, the FIFA World Cup Finals, and Jimothy
This week on The Culture Show, Co-host CAllie Crossley is joined by Culture Show Culture Show contributors Joyce Kulhawik and Lisa Simmons. Joyce Kulhawik is…
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July 23, 2026 - George Saunders, Claire Foy, and Steve Sweeney's "Townie"
Bestselling author George Saunders joins The Culture Show to talk about his novel “Vigil.” Set over a single night, the book follows Jill “Doll” Blaine, a…
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July 22, 2026 - Chef Aidan McGee, Gonzalo Grau, and 100 years of Regina Pizzeria
What Boston learned from its World Cup party: The matches were in Foxborough, but the celebration filled Boston’s pubs, hotels and streets. Aidan McGee, chef…
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July 21, 2026 - Anne Packard: An Artist's Resolve, Gus Constantellis, and Fiddlehead
Filmmaker Arthur Egeli and producer Judith Richland discuss their documentary portrait of Provincetown painter Anne Packard, following her path from a single…
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July 20, 2026 - Los Lobos: Native Sons, I Am Teddy Roosevelt, and Dave Herlihy
Co-directors Doug Blush and Piero F. Giunti discuss Los Lobos: Native Sons, a new documentary tracing the East Los Angeles band’s 50-year journey through rare…
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July 17, 2026 - Week in Review: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, frozen yogurt, and the World Cup finale
On this edition of The Culture Show, Co-host Callie Crossley and contribbutors Lisa Simmons, and James Sullivan go over the week’s top arts and culture…
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July 16, 2026 - David Duchovny, Edward Gorey, and Simon Curtis
Award-winning actor, director, singer-songwriter and bestselling author David Duchovny joins The Culture Show to discuss “About Time: Poems,” a collection that…
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July 15, 2026 - Sebastian Smee on Trump's Arch, Uli Lorimer on summer watering, and Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee discusses President Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. His Atlantic…
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July 14, 2026 - "Paranormal Activity" on stage, Mahesh Daas on the Obama Pres. Center, and My Armenia
Playwright Levi Holloway discusses transforming the slow-building dread of the hit film Paranormal Activity from screen to stage. Directed by Sleep No More…
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July 13, 2026 - Jane Eaglen, Caroline Bicks on "Monsters in the Archives," and Rhett Price
Grammy-winning soprano Jane Eaglen, president of the Boston Wagner Society, previews the American Wagner Festival, running July 27 through August 8 with…
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July 10, 2026 - Week in Review: Emmy nominations, XBox and Playstation controversy, and John Oliver on General Hospital
This week on The Culture Show, Jared Bowen is joined by Culture Show Culture Show contributors Joyce Kulhawik and James Sullivan for a look at the week’s top…
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July 9, 2026 - Judy Collins, Betrayal at Gloucester Stage Company, and First Peoples, First Stories
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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July 8, 2026 - Danielle Allen on "Radical Duke," Fenti Fried Chicken, and Pedro Alonzo on Mexico City art
Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen joins us to discuss her new book, Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat — and the American Revolution — Transformed…
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July 7, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Cameron McCloud from Cure for Paranoia, and Jeffrey Seller
Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston and a co-chair of Everyone250, returns for “AI: Actual Intelligence,” The Culture Show’s monthly…
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July 6, 2026 - The Great Gatsby, Elizabeth Strout, and Historic New England
Broadway director Marc Bruni joins The Culture Show to talk about The Great Gatsby, the Broadway musical that turns F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story of reinvention…
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July 3, 2026 - Ron Chernow, Tara Roberts, and a Victorian Gothic Thriller
Ron Chernow―prizewinning author of seven books, including the National Book Award winner “The House of Morgan,” the Pulitzer Prize winner “Washington: A Life,”…
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July 2, 2026 - Live from P-town: John Waters, the Town Crier, Avital Sagalyn at PAAM, and Jujubee
Filmmaker, writer, performer and longtime Provincetown presence John Waters joins The Culture Show during our broadcast from WOMR. He talks with Jared Bowen…
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July 1, 2026 - Eddie S. Glaude Jr, "Song of Massachusetts," and Megan Hilty
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. joins us to discuss his new book, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, as the country approaches its 250th…
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June 30, 2026 - Boston Symphony Orchestra President and CEO Chad Smith and Julia Swanson on Boston public art
Chad Smith, president and CEO of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, joins The Culture Show as the BSO heads into a major summer season shadowed by the decision not…
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June 29, 2026 - Olivia Wilde on "The Invite," the Nantucket Comedy Festival, and Boston Harbor City Cruises at 100
Actor and filmmaker Olivia Wilde joins The Culture Show to talk about The Invite, her new A24 comedy, which she directs and stars in. The film, co-starring…
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June 26, 2026 - Week in Review: The Reflecting Pool, Clive Davis, and Dolly Parton's truck stop
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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June 25, 2026 - Ensemble Altera's "Declarations," Children's Art Carnival in Harlem, and a home for Les Bleus in Boston
Providence-based chamber choir Ensemble Altera joins The Culture Show live from GBH’s Fraser Performance Studio to perform excerpts from Declarations, a new…
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June 24, 2026 - Reynaliz Herrera & Ideas, Not Theories' with BIKEncerto, Parade: A Folktale, and the Boston Art Review
Percussionist and composer Reynaliz Herrera returns to The Culture Show with excerpts from BIKEncerto, her four-movement concerto for solo bicycle and…
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June 23, 2026 - We Are Pat, Mahesh Daas on data centers, and A Night at the Disco
Filmmaker Rowan Haber joins us to discuss the new documentary We Are Pat, which revisits Julia Sweeney’s famously androgynous Saturday Night Live character…
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June 22, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries on the Embrace's new center, Imagined Nation at the Athenaeum, and the Tao of Lloyd
Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston and co-chair of Everyone250, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence, The Culture Show’s recurring…
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June 19, 2026 - Annette Gordon-Reed onJuneteenth, Regie Gibson on Shakespeare, and Summer Solstice
Historian, lawyer and Pulitzer-prize winning author Annette Gordon-Reed joins The Culture Show to talk about her book “On Juneteenth,” which explores the…
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June 18, 2026 - Dr. Noelle Trent of the Museum of African American History, Mary Grant, and the MOMENTUM festival
Dr. Noelle Trent, president and CEO of the Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket, joins us to discuss Freedom! A Juneteenth Celebration…
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June 17, 2026 - The Salem Rainbow Stroll, The Clyde Best Story, and Salad Days at the Carpenter Center
Sebastian Crane and Lawrence Gullo join us to discuss the Salem Rainbow Stroll, a 90-minute walking tour exploring Salem’s hidden LGBTQIA+ history. The tour…
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June 16, 2026 - Regie Gibson on "Song of Massachusetts," Josef Palermo on the Kennedy Center, and Nashoba Valley Winery
Regie Gibson, the inaugural Poet Laureate of Massachusetts, joins us to discuss Song of Massachusetts, his new collaboration with composer Carlos Simon…
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June 15, 2026 - Antonia Bennett, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., and Igor Golyak on DELIRIUM
Antonia Bennett joins us ahead of her Father’s Day concert at Regattabar in Cambridge on June 21. The daughter of Tony Bennett and Sandra Grant Bennett, she…
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June 12, 2026 - Week in Review: Sagrada Família, the Kennedy Center, and David Hockney
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…
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June 11, 2026 - Dorie Greenspan on Kate Hepburn's brownies, Celtic Art at the HAM, and Jackson Cannon's summer spritzes
James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan joined The Culture Show to talk about her deep dive into Katharine Hepburn’s many brownie recipes…
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June 10, 2026 - Veronica Robles on Vive Latinoamérica, RoxFilm 2026, and A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mariachi singer and cultural organizer Veronica Robles joins us to preview Vive Latinoamérica 2026, the Veronica Robles Cultural Center’s annual celebration of…
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June 9, 2026 - RISE! by the Boston Gay Men's Chorus, Matthew Connors, and Firebird Part 2
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus marks Pride Month with RISE!, a concert celebrating protest, pride and the power of being seen. Music director Reuben Reynolds…
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June 8, 2026 - The 2026 Tony Awards, La CASA in the South End, and Jane Eaglen
Co-host Callie Crossley and Maurice Emmanuel Parent, award-winning actor, educator and Producing Artistic Director of The Front Porch Arts Collective, join us…
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June 5, 2026 - Week in Review: Horror films, Taylor Swift's Toy Story tune, and Euphoria
This week on The Culture Show, Callie Crossley is joined by Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons and GBH global correspondent and news host Jeremy Siegel for…
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June 4, 2026 - "Fairyland," John Carter Cash, and Baking from Poland and Beyond.
After her mother’s death, writer Alysia Abbott was raised by her father—poet Steve Abbott—in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury during the height of…
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June 3, 2026 - Bob Odenkirk 's "Normal, Geoff Bennett's "Black Out Loud," and Lebanese Baking
Actor Bob Odenkirk and writer Derek Kolstad reunite after the Nobody films for Normal, a twisted neo-Western about a bank robbery that shatters the facade of a…
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June 2, 2026 - Patti Smith, a new translation of "The Odyssey," and three-time U.S. Poet Laureate 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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June 1, 2026 - Ethan Hawke, Anthony Amore, and "Dorie's Anytime Cakes"
Ethan Hawke has built one of the most varied careers in contemporary film, spanning Hollywood classics like Dead Poets Society and Training Day, as well as…
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May 29, 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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May 28, 2026 - Live from New York City: Derrick Adams and Melissa Errico's Back to Barbara
Artist Derrick Adams joins us to discuss Derrick Adams: View Master, his first major museum survey, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The…
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May 27, 2026 - Live from New York City: Marc Shaiman and Steve Locke
Today on The Culture Show, we're joined by Marc Shaiman, the award-winning composer and lyricist whose work runs from When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in…
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May 26, 2026 - Danielle Allen, Eve Plumb, and Matthew Shifrin on blind athletics
Today on The Culture Show, Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, director of the Allen Lab for Democracy…
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May 25, 2026 - Keith Lockhart, Revolutionary Artists, and Paul Revere's Sons of Liberty Bowl
Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart was recently honored with the Third Lantern Award at Old North Church, recognizing his role in using music to connect…
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May 22, 2026 - Wednesday Watch Party: All The President's Men
For this month’s Watch Party, Jared Bowen is joined by Callie Crossley, host of GBH’s Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, and Joyce Kulhawik, Emmy…
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May 21, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Geoffrey Kelly on Thirteen Perfect Fugitives, and Edmonia Lewis at the PEM
Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins us to preview tonight’s Embrace Honors Harry Hom Dow event, honoring the first Chinese…
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May 20, 2026 - Eco-Rhythms on the Tobin Bridge, Boston's Soundscape Tours, and MassArt president Mary Grant
The Tobin Bridge could become a public artwork about the forces shaping the coast around it. Ryan Edwards, a principal at MASARY Studios, joins us to discuss…
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May 19, 2026 - Peter Wolf, Megan Hilty, and John Ravenal on the US at the Biennale
Peter Wolf came to Boston to study painting, but quickly became part of the city’s musical bloodstream — performing with The Hallucinations, spinning records…
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May 18, 2026 - Stephen Moyer and Jack Davenport, Jill Medvedow on "Things that Disappear," and Pedro Alonzo
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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May 15, 2026 - Week in Review: Eurovision, the World Cup halftime show, and Don Colossus
On this edition of The Culture Show, GBH’s Global Correspondent and News Host Jeremy Siegel, Lisa Simmons, and Joyce Kulhawik go over the latest arts and…