
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


This Friday sees the release of a new movie starring Meryl Streep as soprano Florence Foster Jenkins. Long before American Idol and the Amateur Hour, Jenkins sang about as badly as anyone had ever sung in public - but people have been fascinated by her style and her story since her death in the 1940s. Sara Fishko asks: was she so bad she was good? Here is the next Fishko Files.
By WNYC Studios4.8
123123 ratings
This Friday sees the release of a new movie starring Meryl Streep as soprano Florence Foster Jenkins. Long before American Idol and the Amateur Hour, Jenkins sang about as badly as anyone had ever sung in public - but people have been fascinated by her style and her story since her death in the 1940s. Sara Fishko asks: was she so bad she was good? Here is the next Fishko Files.

44,000 Listeners

6,794 Listeners

9,243 Listeners

1,582 Listeners

7,731 Listeners

14,451 Listeners

6,470 Listeners

16,648 Listeners

16,405 Listeners

1,183 Listeners

3,356 Listeners