This'll Take A While

Brian Price, of BYU's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, joins Dean to talk about what Pres. Donald Trump's barrier looks and feels like from the Mexican side.

Multiple film luminary Sterling Van Wagenen returns to the program for a celebration of this most magisterial of international filmmakers.

BYU Comp. Lit's Chip Oscarson discusses some of the chronologies, key motifs and powerful practitioners that have helped overachieving Sweden so repeatedly catch the world's attention and imagination. And as usual, Denmark and Norway keep trying to butt in.

Professor Ned Hill of BYU's Marriott School of Management visits the program to chip away at Dean's excessive "West-o-philia," and its accompanying ignorance about the rest of the world. Our host gets nudged a little bit Eastward by Prof. Hill's warm account of Romania's often sorrow and broad substance.

Chris Hodson joins us, from BYU's department of history. He and Dean explore the origins and current appropriations of this tendentious phrase. They also discover, quite quickly, that they're all for it.

Dean welcomes filmmaker Colten Ashley to explore the contrasting and enriching array of components that make up our individuality. They key particularly on Colten's experiences as a Native American of the Navajo Nation.

Amy Harris, from BYU's department of history, provides a bracing contrast to the big doings of great men and women, showing how the historical record is just as enriched by typicality and plain patterns.

Dean Duncan is joined by Scott Church, a professor of the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. They discuss the role of media in religion and how media can induce spiritual experiences and convey religious meaning.

This'll Take a While welcomes former university vice-president Jim Kearl to discuss his long involvement in the administration of BYU's Jerusalem Center, as well as some of the ways that this old city, in this tiny country, remains one of the most important places on earth.

Dean is joined by Butler University media scholar Gary Edgerton to review the history of the television medium, up to the complicated present. They consider the possibility that, complications notwithstanding, these may actually be the best of TV times.