American Experience’s history of American whaling is at times difficult to watch, but beautiful, sad and fascinating, and has made me want to re-read Moby Dick. Watch online.
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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.
