Avast, The White Whale!
WNYC’s Studio 360 reprizes its Peabody Award-winning exploration of Meville’s epic and its influence on writers and artists including Led Zeppelin, Tony Kushner and Laurie Anderson, whose opera Songs And Stories From Moby-Dick contains this brilliance:
The Pequod vs. The Enterprise
(Tumblrers, click on the post; the audio player doesn’t show up in the Tumblr dashboard)
Catch the whole episode here.
