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City Arts & Lectures

City Arts & Lectures

Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse...

City Arts & Lectures Podcast Guide

Listen to City Arts & Lectures, a Arts podcast by City Arts & Lectures . Stream 422 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Bella Freud

This week, our guest is Bella Freud, clothing designer and host of Fashion Neurosis, a conversation podcast about the connection between clo...

01:10:05Jul 19, 2026

David Szalay

This week, our guest is David Szalay. His novel – Flesh – was winner of the 2025 Man Booker Prize. The story begins in Hungary, and it stays...

01:10:30Jul 12, 2026

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

This week, our guest is Elizabeth Pryor – a professor of history at Smith College, whose work focuses on the histories of race and slavery i...

01:20:23Jul 5, 2026

Lena Dunham

This week, our guest is Lena Dunham, best known as the creator of Girls, an HBO series about a group of 20-somethings that one critic called...

01:27:36Jun 28, 2026

Jose Andres

José Andrés is widely recognized for both his culinary achievements – including two Michelin stars, and 40 restaurants worldwide – and his h...

01:20:05Jun 21, 2026

Ben Rhodes

Ben Rhodes is a writer on U.S. and global politics. A contributor to the New York Times and MSNOW , and co-host of Pod Save the World , Ben...

01:17:41Jun 14, 2026

Boots Riley

This week, our guest is Boots Riley, an Oakland-based filmmaker and founding member of the seminal hip hop group, The Coup. Like his music,...

01:17:41Jun 7, 2026

Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen

This week, a conversation about children’s literature with author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen. Barnett is National Ambassador fo...

01:12:55May 31, 2026

Jeff Hiller

This week, our guest is Jeff Hiller. The veteran comedian and actor is hardly a newcomer, but it’s his recent role on the television series...

01:04:46May 24, 2026

Sir Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby

Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, scientist, and entrepreneur. In 2010, he co-founded DeepMind, an AI research lab wh...

01:12:35May 18, 2026

Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous is a leading voice at the intersection of faith and justice in America. She is the founding and senior rabbi of IKAR, a t...

01:05:15May 10, 2026

Ada Limon

Ada Limón ’s poems expertly combine brilliant observations of our complex world with a tender sincerity. As a two-term Poet Laureate of the...

01:22:42May 3, 2026

Michael Tilson Thomas (from 2009)

This week, we’ve gone back into the City Arts & Lectures archives for a 2009 interview with the late conductor, composer, and pianist Michae...

01:24:52Apr 26, 2026

Emma Straub

Emma Straub plays many roles as a leader in the literary world: independent bookstore owner, award-winning novelist, and children’s book aut...

01:09:37Apr 19, 2026

Gina Gershon

Over the past forty years, Gina Gershon has remained a beloved actress while constantly pushing herself as an artist, adding to her astonish...

01:15:51Apr 12, 2026

Encore - Lauren Groff

This program originally aired in 2022. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and the author of four novels and two collect...

59:30Apr 5, 2026

Michael Pollan

This week, our guest is Michael Pollan, author of ten books including "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "How to Change Your Mind". Since the 1980...

01:13:20Mar 22, 2026

Encore - Judith Butler

This is an encore of a program originally broadcast in July 2024. Since their foundational philosophical critique of gender and sexuality, G...

01:23:00Mar 15, 2026