236 Episodes

  1. 108: Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse & Diego Maradona

    Published: 16/05/2019
  2. 107: Rachel Lears on filming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Published: 2/05/2019
  3. 106: Werner Herzog on “Meeting Gorbachev”

    Published: 25/04/2019
  4. 105: Sam Green & David Harrington on Kronos Quartet

    Published: 18/04/2019
  5. 104: Penny Lane on "Hail Satan?"

    Published: 11/04/2019
  6. 103: Alison Klayman on Steve Bannon in “The Brink”

    Published: 4/04/2019
  7. 102: Baseball on Drugs in “Screwball”

    Published: 28/03/2019
  8. 101: Alex Gibney on how Theranos fooled Silicon Valley

    Published: 21/03/2019
  9. 100: Inside “The Case Against Adnan Syed” on HBO

    Published: 9/03/2019
  10. 99: D.A. Pennebaker, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney & more on Stephen Sondheim’s “Company"

    Published: 28/02/2019
  11. 98: Tim Wardle, Sandi Tan & RaMell Ross on "Pushing Boundaries"

    Published: 21/02/2019
  12. 97: "United Skates" with Tina Brown & Reggie Brown

    Published: 14/02/2019
  13. 96: Talal Derki on filming in Syria

    Published: 7/02/2019
  14. 95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal

    Published: 31/01/2019
  15. 94: Sundance 2019 Preview

    Published: 22/01/2019
  16. 93: Astra Taylor on “What is Democracy?”

    Published: 17/01/2019
  17. 92: Aretha Franklin in “Amazing Grace,” Lost and Found

    Published: 6/12/2018
  18. 91: Mr. Rogers, Quincy Jones, Jane Fonda & Pope Francis Walk Into a Bar

    Published: 29/11/2018
  19. 90: Michael Moore, Julie Cohen, Annie Sundberg & Stephen Maing on “Getting Political”

    Published: 15/11/2018
  20. 89: Opal H. Bennett on Short Documentaries

    Published: 8/11/2018

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