April 10, 2020 - The Arts in the time of Sequestration

Listen to this week's Speaking of the Arts to hear from Ragtag's Barbie Banks about a new documentary looking at gerrymandering called Slay the Dragon and a Romanian heist thriller, The Whistlers, the inspiration for which comes from a real life whistling language used on La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands; Skylark Bookshop's Alex George chats about two books that look at different aspects of the second world war - Erik Larson's new book about the London Blitz. The Splendid and the Vile, and Jennifer Rosner's novel about enforced isolation 'The Yellow Bird Sings'; Bingham gallery director Catherine Armbrust and artist Dianna Temple talk about Dianna's digital art show 'Wheelchair tornadoes and Other Things Our Eyes Cannot See'; Adam Brietzke and Kathleen Johnson give Diana Moxon another improv lesson; and the Missouri Symphony Orchestra's Monica Palmer gives us the down and dirty on Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. And it's all neatly packed into 1 hour.