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David Hockney, who died last week, was a giant of British art. In this special episode, Alastair and James pay tribute to the late, great artist.
Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Goncalves De Lima
Artworks in this episode include:
David Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961
David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
David Hockney, Mother, Bradford. 19 Feb 1979, 1979
David Hockney, J-P Gonçalves de Lima, 11th, 12th, 13th July 2013, 2013
David Hockney, The Big Hawthorn, 2008
David Hockney, Winter Timber, 2009
David Hockney, Beverly Hills Housewife, 1966-67
David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967
David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970-71
David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968
Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ, c.1437-45
David Hockney, My Parents, 1977
David Hockney, My Parents and Myself, 1976
David Hockney, Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986 (Second Version), 1986
David Hockney, A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021
David Hockney, Bigger Trees Near Warter, 2007
David Hockney, Delphiniums on My Garden Table, July 2025, 2025

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Hosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James Fox
Additional Research: Catherine Ingram
Producer and Editor: Ben Harding
Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac

• 00:00:00 News of Hockney's Death
• 00:03:06 An Artist of Joy
• 00:08:45 A National Treasure and Cultural Icon
• 00:15:06 California and Double Portraits
• 00:21:11 Yorkshire Landscapes
• 00:27:06 How to Look

Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire someone for a secret yearlong expedition, Ada embarks on the trip—not knowing that she’ll be the only one of them to survive. 

Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.

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Dante, the poet, steps out of the story seven times in PURGATORIO to address his reader directly--sometimes to spur the reader on to action, sometimes to put a bridle on the reader's intentions or thoughts.

If we trace these seven addresses, can we find a developmental pattern? Or uncover Dante's changing attitude toward his work? Or toward his reader? Can we see a growing frustration or even fear about what lies ahead in COMEDY?

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we work our way through these seven call-outs to find ways to summarize the greater work and ingenuity of PURGATORIO.

Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:

[01:31] PURGATORIO, Canto VIII, Lines 19 - 21.

[05:23] PURGATORIO, Canto IX, Lines 70 - 72.

[08:00] PURGATORIO, Canto X, Lines 106 - 111.

[11:55] PURGATORIO, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 9.

[15:39] PURGATORIO, Canto XXIX, Lines 97 - 105.

[19:20] PURGATORIO, Canto XXXI, Lines 124 - 126.

[22:22] PURGATORIO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 136 - 138.

In April, the price of tomatoes was around $2.69 per pound — the highest seen in some four decades. And tomatoes aren't the only food getting more expensive. From cauliflower to lettuce, fresh produce is spiking all over the place. So what's driving the price spike? And what can tomatoes teach us teach about America's political economy including changes in trade and tariffs? Our guest today is Jacob Krempel, senior vice president of procurement and merchandising at the wholesale food distributor Baldor, and an expert in securing fresh produce. We talk to him about where America's tomato supply actually comes from, why consumers are paying more and more, how restaurants navigate price fluctuations, and the influx of novel new tomato varieties.

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Back in ‘90s, in the mountains of Far West Texas, one man started his own nation. Reporter Zoe Kurland decides to find out what happens when the myths of the frontier crash violently into reality. 

Flavors of this episode: piney woods, donkey musk, frozen mice, alarm clocks, Prius engine covers. 

A Whole Other Country is produced and reported by Zoe Kurland and edited by Liza Yeager. 

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They say that smiling requires fewer muscles than frowning, so why not smile? That doesn’t seem to be true, or at least unproven, and there is lots more about smiling that will keep you glued to your earbuds in this fun episode.

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How did the anxieties of late-Victorian Britain inspire Dorian Gray? Which real people lay behind the characters of Dorian Gray? What were the French Decadents, and how did they influence Wilde?

Join Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett as they delve into the fascinating story behind the writing of The Picture of Dorian Gray, the world it was born of, and the novel itself.

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Music in this episode:

Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (1982)

Manu Dibango - “Soul Makossa” (1972)

Manu Dibango - “Mouvement Ewondo” (1972)

A Taste of Honey - “Boogie Oogie Oogie” (1978)

Manu Dibango - “Electric Africa” (1985)

Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (home demo)” (1979)

Fugees - “Cowboys” (1996)

Will Smith - “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” (1997)

Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz (feat. Chauncey Black) - “Startin’ Somethin’” (1998)

Björk - “I Go Humble” (1998)

Missy Elliott - “Intro/Go To The Floor” (2002)

Rihanna - “Don’t Stop the Music” (2007)

Charles Hamilton - “Brooklyn Girls” (2008)

Geri Allen - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (2013)

References

My MusicRadar column about this song

Nelson George - Thriller: The Musical Life Of Michael Jackson

Manu Dibango and Danielle Rouard - Three Kilos of Coffee: an Autobiography

George Echu - “Multilingualism as a Resource: the Lexical Appropriation of Cameroon Indigenous Languages by English and French”

Ben Zimmer - “Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa”