In Episode 7—the final episode of DuhoCast for 2018—Pigs of Paradise director Charlie Smith delves into his distinguished career that has spanned more than two decades.  Specifically, Smith explains his fascination with The Bahamas’s swimming pigs of Exuma, how they became a thing, and how his latest film about them picks up where his previous, When Pigs Swim, left off…

In this segment of Remixing Your Dream, Renee Calarco describes the long and winding road that took her from English major in New York, to rehearsal-hating actress toiling in the DMV, to—her latest and most satisfying remix—award-winning playwright. She tells us how she kept the faith, identifies signs of remix readiness, and explains the difference between quitting and stopping.

In our Ask a... Series, we ask a millennial, Tanesha Willis, about her generation, including about old fools versus millennials, voting, love, realizing that you don't know everything, texting, unsolicited dick pics, and the Kardashian Effect.

Episode 4 features Bahamian author S.L. Sheppard, who has written poems, short stories, novels, and plays of international acclaim. Sheppard discusses The Left-Over Daughters, her second novel, which explores family, sisterhood, death, and the supernatural in Freeport, Grand Bahama as it evolves over the decades from a sleepy colonial hamlet into a vibrant city reaping the fruits of present-day progress.

Author and screenwriter Karyn Langhorne Folan has remixed her dream several times. In a previous life, she was a Harvard-educated lawyer, toiling in legal valleys while suppressing her creative side. All that changed when she found herself in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. An epic national tragedy spurred her on to a series of remixes that took her on a creative journey, complete with lessons learned and a stellar and diverse body of work.

In the 1950s, Sylvia Matthew came to America from the Bahamas as a young woman and made a rich life for herself. She contrasts her immigrant experience with that of new immigrants who come to America at a time of heated rhetoric, arbitrary policies, and sometimes less-than-welcoming people.

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