The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn

Maximum Fun and Columbia Journalism Review

The Turnaround is a new series about our greatest living interviewers, hosted by Jesse Thorn and produced by Maximum Fun and The Columbia Journalism Review. Featuring conversations with prominent interviewers about their careers and their craft, the show is a perfect resource for a new generation of storytellers and journalists. You'll hear Jesse speak with Larry King, Terry Gross, Werner Herzog, Audie Cornish, and so many more!

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The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn

Episodes (17)

Jan 9, 2018 The Turnaround with Dick Cavett
Aug 10, 2017 Terry Gross
Aug 8, 2017 Werner Herzog

The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn

Jan 9, 2018
1½ hours
58 MB

In this special, bonus episode of The Turnaround, Jesse speaks to the legendary Dick Cavett, whose eponymous The Dick Cavett Show debuted nearly fifty years ago. Throughout his storied career, Cavett distinguished himself as the consummate interviewer, and has played host to the most interesting and compelling figures of his era--Salvador Dali, Jimi Hendrix, Betty Davis, Groucho Marx, Angela Davis, Katharine Hepburn and more. Cavett shares what it was like to interview a murderer, how he responded to an expletive-laden piece of hate mail he received and the difficult challenge of maintaining a conversation on camera while...

The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn

The Turnaround with Dick Cavett

Maximum Fun and Columbia Journalism Review

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