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NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour

Performance - Spoken Word
Nonfiction: Performance - Spoken Word
Unabridged   2 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/04/2015

NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Audio CD ISBN:9781622318698
Digital Download ISBN:9781622318704

Summary

NPR’s popular, high-energy entertainment podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop Culture Carbon Dating” (why some cultural markers age well and others not at all).

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An energetic, fun-filled round table from NPR exploring the many ways entertainment intersects with day-to-day life.

NPR’s popular podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop Culture Carbon Dating” (why some cultural markers age well and others not at all). Hosts Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon are joined by a parade of insightful commentators, each lending hilarious perspective and pop culture expertise to conversations that will deepen your appreciation for the modern cultural landscape—and leave you smiling.

Featuring:
• Pop Culture Debuts with Ari Shapiro
• Public Radio Voices with Gene Demby and Tanya Ballard Brown
• Nudity with Maggie Thompson
• The Art of the Mixtape with Audie Cornish
• Outtakes and Bloopers with Guy Raz
• Movie Trailers with Bob Mondello
• Profanity with Trey Graham
• Fiascos with Gene Demby
• Hollywood in the White House with Ari Shapiro
• Pop Culture Carbon Dating with Audie Cornish

Reviews/Praise

"Excellent. It's a lively, intelligent, enjoyably upbeat affair, driven by enthusiasm and wit."—The Telegraph

Author Bio

Internationally acclaimed, NPR produces and distributes programming that reaches a combined audience of 26.4 million listeners weekly, and, unlike other media, NPR’s audience continues to grow. NPR member organizations operate 784 stations, and another 117 public radio stations also present NPR programs, for a total of more than 900 stations nationwide who broadcast NPR programming.
LINDA HOLMES writes and edits NPR’s entertainment and pop culture blog Monkey See, and she has been a contributor to MSNBC as well as Vulture, New York magazine’s entertainment blog.
STEPHEN THOMPSON is an editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he writes the advice column “The Good Listener,” and he appears as a frequent panelist on All Things Considered. Thompson founded the Onion’s entertainment section, the A.V. Club.
GLEN WELDON is the author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, and his fiction and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and many other publications.