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WNYC's Sara Fishko with sound-rich essays on art, culture, music and media - past and present.
On May 9th, 1961, a still-celebrated speech rocked the world of broadcast television. In it, FCC Chairman Newton Minow zeroed in on televisi...
Tomorrow, May 1st, marks the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building . As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, the building's r...
In honor of this weekend's Oscars: WNYC's Sara Fishko with this Fishko Files from the archive, filled with the award-winning voices of some...
In honor of April, National Poetry Month , WNYC's Sara Fishko asks the question: what's the connection between poets' speaking voices, and t...
The celebrated children's tale with music, Peter and the Wolf - as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us - was first heard in Moscow in the spring of...
When we produced a feature on the celebrated Leonard Bernstein concert-broadcasts known as the Young People's Concerts (1958-1972), we were...
The tradition of siblings singing together is as old as song. WNYC’s Sara Fishko looks at brothers, sisters, and sibling harmony in this edi...
A hundred years ago, as WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, a popular song appeared at a time similar to our own - when people desperately wanted t...
Michael Rabin , who lived from 1936 to 1972, was a midcentury, classical music phenomenon - a genuine violin prodigy, concertizing as a teen...
James M. Cain 's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) was adapted for the movies seven times. The most celebrated version was release...
Pieces of music, as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, can change in impact over time. On the 80th anniversary of a beloved violin concerto's prem...
The composer Frédéric Chopin , whose first published music appeared about two hundred years ago in the 1820s, eventually wrote hundreds of p...
On Valentine's Day 1962, in the simpler days of television, all three networks aired a now-celebrated tour of the White House led by First L...
The recent death of screenwriter Walter Bernstein has WNYC's Sara Fishko ruminating on the subject of dissent, protest and the movies, in th...
Composer Alex North was best known for his sharp and observant film scores, including the iconic music for "A Streetcar Named Desire" - but...
It's 45 years since the film Network had its premiere. It seemed pretty far out in its time - but now seems remarkably prescient, thanks to...
Today, the new documentary film MLK/FBI is available to screen. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, it's a dark and revealing update to civil ri...
It's 125 years since the birth of Dziga Vertov , the Russian documentary film and newsreel director. That's a good excuse, says WNYC's Sara...
In this last gasp of 2020, we face a New Year's without parties - unless you count the ones in this Fishko Files episode, composed of party...
The actress, director, and film business pioneer Ida Lupino 's 1950 film "Outrage" has been added to the Library of Congress's National Film...
80 years ago, in the dark fall of 1940, just before World War II, Walt Disney’s classical music film Fantasia opened across America. WNYC’s...
Any time the nights get long, cold, and a little ominous, film noir comes to mind. Here's this Fishko Files with WNYC's Sara Fishko and the...
This Sunday is the Dave Brubeck centenary - the late, celebrated jazz player was born December 6th, 1920. WNYC's Sara Fishko had a memorable...
Violinist Stuff Smith : Once you hear his fabulous, swing-era playing, it's hard to forget. WNYC's Sara Fishko and guests celebrate Smith in...
In the last many months, television has been our WFH window into a disastrous pandemic as well as a deeply divisive presidency. In this spec...
Andre Gregory - of "My Dinner with Andre" fame - has told stories, on stage and screen, for decades, says WNYC's Sara Fishko. With his first...
In this fraught time, when truth and reality are warped beyond recognition, we could all use someone to talk to. WNYC's Sara Fishko has more...
In our unsettled moment, people will find ways to mark an unusual Halloween this weekend. It's a time when music - scar y music - comes to m...
Composer Ned Rorem turns 97 today. In this hour from the archives, Rorem and Fishko share a long, winding conversation illustrated with plen...
Two dramas start streaming today, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and What the Constitution Means to Me . Looking at both, WNYC's Sara Fishko fin...
Thelonious Monk was born October 10, 1917. WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at Monk, Glenn Gould, and Vincent van Gogh - and how their brilliant gif...
This week marks 65 years since the death of James Dean , film's "first American teenager." WNYC's Sara Fishko digs up the roots of the teen...
In this time of empty concert halls and virtual performances, WNYC's Sara Fishko is turning her attention to music with an audience, in this...
Sometimes artists, seeking inspiration, find it in the very thing that challenges and haunts them most. Here, WNYC’s Sara Fishko talks with...
A few years ago, a rash of books written by arts and entertainment critics inspired WNYC's Sara Fishko to talk to some of the critics/author...
The Woody Guthrie archive is filled with riches, including some related to "This Land is Your Land," written 80 years ago. WNYC's Sara Fishk...
In the run-up to the election, we’re all listening to speeches - and many of them are grappling with the very idea of America: what do we wa...
After nearly 70 years on newsstands, Playboy Magazine has ended its print run. In this archival episode produced for The United States of An...
The artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was recently honored with a quilt created by friends and admirers in his memory. Wojnarowicz, who m...
Pianist and singer Hazel Scott was born in Trinidad a century ago, in the summer of 1920. Scott is well-remembered for her sparkling piano t...
The death of actress and star Olivia de Havilland a few days ago has stirred many memories and considerations. WNYC's Sara Fishko chimes in...
Annie Ross , the singer and actress who died t his week at 89, was one-third of the phenomenally successful jazz vocal group Lambert Hendric...
A cultural movement of Black writers and artists was flourishing a century ago in uptown New York, and it’s being remembered now with variou...
Composer and arranger Johnny Mandel died last Monday at the age of 94. In the sixty years prior, he gave us standards such as “Emily” and “T...
This archival Fishko Files was produced in 2006 - the year musician and manager John Levy was given the prestigious title of "Jazz Master" b...
Some of the major struggles and victories of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s coincided with a most active period for jazz music. WNYC...
A documentary film about the late, infamous lawyer Roy Cohn premieres tonight. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, the variety of films and dram...
The Depression-era novel Miss Lonelyhearts , by Nathanael West , has been called " the purest expression of despair that American literature...
20 years ago, a book by David Margolick reminded us of the power of a historic song about lynching, Strange Fruit - made famous by the great...
After the opening of the September 11th Memorial and Museum, record-breaking crowds traveled to Ground Zero, to the exact spot where the tra...