Point of Learning

About Point of Learning

A podcast for anyone curious about what and how and why we learn.

Publisher

Peter Horn

Category

education · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 May 2017

Latest episode

4 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 66 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE

   Host [Host Name] interviews Saul Elkin (1932-2025) about Shakespeare's enduring impact on American culture.

2. 

   22 Apr 2026

   WE ARE THE CAVALRY with DREW WARSHAW

   Peter talks with Drew Warshaw about his campaign for NYS Comptroller, the most powerful office too many of us know nothing about.

3. 

   26 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   HOUSE OF DIGGS with MARION ORR

   Peter talks with Marion Orr, the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy at Brown University, about his book House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.

Inside a recent episode

AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE

Published 4 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I would say, let's try it. And then somewhere along the line, I began to think maybe I should trust the plays a little bit more. Maybe I don't need to fiddle with it the way I have been. And I remember my wife saying to me, why don't you do the plays that were written so they'd get off your back? There were letters to the editor about why I was fooling with Shakespeare. So in recent years, I have been, the plays I've directed and other plays that were done have tended to stay closer to the script, to the plays that Shakespeare wrote. One of the features of the festival that Saul instituted at the start was the internship, a kind of apprentice role for student actors. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

17,122

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

37 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51