All Of It with Alison Stewart

[REBROADCAST FROM December 7, 2022] A new film from an adapted screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, titled "Living," finds Bill Nighy as a 1950s civil servant who, after a fatal cancer diagnosis, endeavors to give his tedious life meaning. Nighy and Ishiguro join us to discuss the movie.

Preeminent author Margaret Atwood joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, Old Babes in the Wood, containing fifteen works of short fiction.

The beloved Taylor Jenkins-Reid novel, Daisy Jones & The Six, told the story of a band who catapulted to fame in the 1970s before splitting apart in a spectacular breakup, creating a great album in the process. A new TV adaptation brings this story to life, complete with an original album. First, we speak with showrunner Scott Neustadter and executive producer Lauren Neustadter about their work on the series. Then, we're joined by music supervisor Frankie Pine and chief music consultant Tony Berg who will discuss the process of putting the album together. "Daisy Jones & the Six" is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.

In a new play, a Bengali-American PhD student named Choton visits his family back in Kolkata alongside his Black American cinematographer boyfriend, Raheem, to interview locals on queer hookup apps. As Choton continues his research, he switches between Bangla and English, Grindr and academia, while wondering about the life he could have lived in India. Writer and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury join us to talk about the bilingual production, "Public Obscenities," running at SoHo Rep until April 9.

[REBROADCAST FROM January 9, 2023] The celebrated novel, Women Talking, by Miriam Toews, follows an isolated community of Mennonite women who must decide what to do after learning they had been suffering sexual attacks by men within the commune. Writer and director Sarah Polley joins us to discuss adapting the novel for the big screen. We are also joined by actor Jessie Buckley, who stars in the film as Mariche, a woman skeptical that leaving the community is the right thing to do.

We continue our series The Big Picture, celebrating Oscar nominees working behind the camera. Today we speak to Best Original Score-nominated composer Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka, about his music for the film, "All Quiet on the Western Front," which is nominated in eight other categories including Best Sound and Best Picture.

NOTE: This segment has been edited to correct a mistake in the intro. Bertelmann's score for "Lion" earned him an Oscar nomination. It did not win the award.

Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James joined us at our February Get Lit with All Of It book club event to discuss his fantasy novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which takes place in a magical version of ancient Africa and follows the hunt for a mysterious boy who has gone missing. We air highlights from that conversation, which included an audience Q&A.

Watch it in full here. To find out more about our Get Lit with All Of It book club, and our partnership with the New York Public Library, click here, and follow us on Instagram at @allofitwnyc.

We air highlights from the second half of our live February Get Lit with All Of It event, featuring an interview and performance from musician Dion McKenzie, aka TYGAPAW. They were the musical guest for our event with Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf.

Watch it in full here. To find out more about our Get Lit with All Of It book club, and our partnership with the New York Public Library, click here, and follow us on Instagram at @allofitwnyc.

For years, the hip-hop group De La Soul's music from the years 1989 to 2001 had been kept off of streaming platforms. Classic albums such as 3 Feet High and Rising, Stakes Is High, and De La Soul Is Dead were mired in clearance and other legal issues related to the large amount of samples they used in their production. Last Friday, six De La Soul albums from this period finally became available to stream. Music journalist Marcus J. Moore is currently in the process of writing a biography about the group, and he joins to tell us more about the history of the group's founding in Long Island, listen to some tracks, and take your calls.