City Arts & Lectures
City Arts & Lectures
4.5from 440 ratings
- 385
- Episodes
- 107
- Transcribed
- 440
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About City Arts & Lectures
Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 public radio stations across the country and wherever you get your podcasts. The broadcasts are co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco. Visit CITYARTS.NET (https://www.cityarts.net)for more info.
- Publisher
- City Arts & Lectures
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Feb 2018
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
107 of 385 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wendell Berry - In Memoriam
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Gloria Steinem - In Memoriam
30 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Encore - Robert Reich
Inside a recent episode
Wendell Berry - In Memoriam
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You have to know as someone who's lived in cities that this word falls oddly on the ears of many people, probably in this audience. It might sound a little either archaic to them or perhaps like a term of opposition to urban life. And I'm wondering what role you see for urbanites and suburbanites. Can you be an agrarian urbanite? I think so. I think what we're beginning to do in this country, and it's absolutely essential, is we're beginning to develop a population of urban agrarians. This simply begins, I think, with the examination of one's own food economy. and realizing how passive they are in it and how ignorant they are about it if they've simply accepted the food that's made available to them through the mainline food system. […]
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- Gloria Steinem
- Robert Reich
- Edwidge Danticat
- Laverne Cox
- Arundhati Roy
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 383 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 57 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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