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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.

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December 23, 2025 - Ron Chernow, Tara Roberts, and a...

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2025/12/23

Ron Chernow―prizewinning author of seven books, including the National Book Award winner “The House of Morgan,” the Pulitzer Prize winner “Washington: A Life,” and the George Washington Book Prize winner “Alexander Hamilton”―joins The Culture Show to talk about his new biography “Mark Twain.” From there we talk to National Geographic Explorer in Residence Tara Roberts. She joins The Culture Show to talk about her book “Written in the Waters: A memoir of History, Home and

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December 23, 2025 - BONUS EPISODE: Keith Lockhart...

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2025/12/23

The United States has a National Recording Registry— a list of more than 600 recordings that have been deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant by the Library of Congress. GBH’s The Culture Show is digging deep, one recording at a time, with our recurring segment SOUND FILES. In this edition, Keith Lockhart with the acclaimed orchestra Boston Pops waxes operatic about his love of Queen’s 1975 masterpiece “Bohemian Rhapsody.”“Twenty-five years ago, there were all these

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December 22, 2025 - Gerald Charles Dickens, The Feast...

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2025/12/22

In the Victorian era, Charles Dickens was more than a famous author — his public readings of A Christmas Carol turned literature into live spectacle. His great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens, carries that tradition forward with a one-man performance of the holiday classic. Touring internationally since the early 1990s, he joined The Culture Show to talk about literary inheritance, live storytelling, and decades spent bringing Dickens’ ghosts to life onstage. To learn more about

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December 19, 2025 - Week in Review: The Oscars on...

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2025/12/19

On this edition of The Culture Show, Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.First up, Hollywood’s biggest night is getting a new home. The Academy Awards will leave broadcast television and stream exclusively on YouTube beginning with the 101st Oscars in 2029, ending a more than five-decade run on ABC and signaling a major shift in how global audiences gather for live cultural

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December 18, 2025 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Mary Grant,...

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2025/12/18

Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston and co-chair of Everyone 250, joins us for his recurring segment AI: Actual Intelligence — a space for original, human insight. This month Jeffries discussed how history, memory, and civic responsibility are shaping current cultural conversations in Greater Boston and beyond. He also previewed Everyone250’s 2026 events to confront erasure and reclaim America’s story. To learn more go here. Then Mary Grant, President of Massachusetts

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December 17, 2025 - Wednesday Watch Party: A...

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2025/12/17

Today we commune with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Edgar B. Herwick III co-host this month’s Wednesday Watch Party and revisit all the screen lives of “A Chistmas Carol.” Dickens’ tale has been adapted hundreds of times — from silent films and mid-century classics to animated versions, musicals, and comic riffs. The hosts ask listeners what versions resonate the most with them and who is their favorite Scrooge.

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December 16, 2025 - Nadya Tolokonnikova, Stefan...

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2025/12/16

Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot. She joins The Culture Show to discuss “Police State” — a museum installation that recreates the conditions of her incarceration through constant surveillance and confinement. The project draws directly from her imprisonment following Pussy Riot’s 2012 protest inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Tolokonnikova’s new book, also titled “Police State” documents the installation and reflects

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December 18, 2025 - Imari Paris Jeffries, Mary Grant,...

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2025/12/16

Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston and co-chair of Everyone 250, joins us for his recurring segment AI: Actual Intelligence — a space for original, human insight. This month Jeffries discussed how history, memory, and civic responsibility are shaping current cultural conversations in Greater Boston and beyond. He also previewed Everyone250’s 2026 events to confront erasure and reclaim America’s story. To learn more go here. Then Mary Grant, President of Massachusetts

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December 15, 2025 - Is This A Room, Marina Abramović,...

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2025/12/15

Tina Statter’s “Is This A Room” uses the verbatim FBI transcript of Reality Winner’s 2017 interrogation to turn everyday language into gripping drama. Actor Parker Jennings, who plays Reality Winner, and actor Cristhian Mancinas-García, who plays Special Agent R. Wallace Taylor, join The Culture Show to discuss this production, which is now onstage at Apollinaire Theatre Company through January 18th. To learn more go here.For more than five decades, Marina Abramović has made endurance,

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December 12, 2025 - Week in Review: Golden Globe...

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2025/12/12

Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons host our arts and culture week-in-review.First up, the Golden Globe nominations are out, offering a snapshot of where Hollywood’s center of gravity is shifting. The awards bypassed the supposedly gravity-defying Wicked: For Good, while One Battle After Another surged ahead with nine nominations. In a nod to how audiences consume storytelling now, the Globes also introduced a podcast category for the first time.From there

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December 11, 2025 - "Annie" at the Wheelock Family...

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2025/12/11

The Wheelock Family Theatre brings new life to “Annie,” the classic musical rooted in the 1924 comic strip “Little Orphan Annie.” Set against Depression-era New York, the show blends breadlines, political intrigue, and a young girl’s unwavering belief in “tomorrow.” Featuring Sky Vaux Fuller as Annie and De’Lon Grant as Oliver Warbucks, they join us to talk about how this production explores resilience, hope, and what it means to rise to the moment. “Annie” is onstage through December 21

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December 10, 2025 - Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll and...

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2025/12/10

We continue our “Countdown to 2026” series with a preview of next July’s Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. It will headline the Commonwealth’s celebration of America’s 250th birthday. Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and Boston Symphony Orchestra Julian and Eunice Cohen President and CEO Chad Smith join us to talk about what this expanded Fourth of July tradition will mean for the Esplanade and beyond.Frank Gehry, who died at 96, was one of the most influential architects of his

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December 9, 2025 - Patti Smith, Charles Dickens at...

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2025/12/09

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 imaginative postwar childhood, her life with Fred “Sonic” Smith, and the years of loss and renewal that shaped her return to writing and performance. She appears at The Chevalier Theatre on December 17 for a Brookline Booksmith event exploring the new work. To learn more go here.Susan WIlson, the official house historian of the Omni

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December 8, 2025 - Wonder: The Musical, Arms and...

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2025/12/08

Playwright Sarah Ruhl joins The Culture Show to discuss writing the book for “Wonder,” the new musical premiering at the American Repertory Theater. Adapted from the bestselling novel and acclaimed film, the production follows Auggie Pullman, a boy with a facial difference navigating the trials of middle school with courage and compassion. “Wonder,” is onstage December 10-February 8, to learn more go here. The Worcester Art Museum has reopened its Arms and Armor Galleries after a decade of

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December 5, 2025 - Tom Stoppard, Spotify Wrapped, and...

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2025/12/05

Edgar B. Herwick III, Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons and Culture Show contributor Joyce Kulhawik co-host this week’s arts and culture week-in-review.First up, the 2025 Words of the Year capture a moment shaped by online overload and cultural tension. Dictionary.com chose “67,” Cambridge went with “parasocial,” Collins selected “vibe coding,” and Oxford tapped “rage bait.” Together, they trace the emotional and technological currents running through daily life.And a familiar holiday

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December 4, 2025 - Matt Doyle, Levain Bakery, and...

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2025/12/04

Tony Award–winner Matt Doyle brings a burst of holiday warmth to Worcester with “Make the Season Bright,” a concert filled with seasonal favorites. Known for standout roles in “Company,” “Spring Awakening,” and “The Book of Mormon,” Doyle also has deep ties to Massachusetts, where he spent part of his childhood. He joins The Culture Show to talk about returning home, embracing the holidays, and the music that shaped him. “Make the Season Bright” is onstage December 10th at the BrickBox

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December 3, 2025 - Will and Georgia Lyman,...

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2025/12/03

Actor Will Lyman takes on Ebenezer Scrooge in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “A Christmas Carol"at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, stepping into one of literature’s great holiday transformations. His daughter, actor and producer Georgia Lyman, is simultaneously shepherding “Yellow Bird Chase” to the stage with Liars & Believers, a whimsical, family-friendly piece that blends clowning, puppetry, and physical theater. Together, they talk about sharing a season, a craft, and a

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December 2, 2025 - Jerry O'Connell on Stand By Me at...

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2025/12/02

“Stand by Me,” the classic coming-of-age film, is turning 40. To commemorate the film’s anniversary, “Stand By Me: The Film and its Stars 40 Years Later,” takes place at the Lynn Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, December 6th. There will be a screening followed by a conversation with three of the film’s stars - Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry O’Connell. Ahead of this event actor and television host Jerry O’Connell, who starred in the film as Vern Tessio, joins us to reflect on the

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December 1, 2025 - Ethan Hawke, Peter Drummey, and...

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2025/12/01

For nearly fifty years, Peter Drummey has been one of the quiet forces making history accessible. As the longtime Stephen T. Riley Librarian and, most recently, Chief Historian at the Massachusetts Historical Society — the nation’s oldest historical society — he helped generations of researchers navigate one of the country’s richest archives and advised storytellers ranging from filmmakers to the late David McCullough. Now retired after a 47-year career, he joins us to reflect on the

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November 28, 2025 - Kwame Alexander, Elizabeth Strout...

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2025/11/28

Award winning writer and poet Kwame Alexander joins The Culture Show to talk about the PBS Kids debut of “Acoustic Rooster.” Based on Alexander’s beloved children’s book “Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band,” the “Acoustic Rooster” universe is now on PBS KIDS. To learn more, go here.From there the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout joins The Culture Show to talk about her latest book “Tell Me Everything.” Finally Oliver de la Paz, the poet laureate of Worcester and

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