About this season
Articulate connects audiences to the human stories behind art, offering a trustworthy, visually stimulating, never ordinary take on classical, contemporary, and popular art forms. From acclaimed musicians and best-selling authors to designers changing the way we live, each episode explores what great creative thinkers and doers can tell us about who we are, who we’ve been, and who we might become.
Episodes (10)
1. Resilience
Aired 8 October 2021
Even after 50 years of accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize at 26 for his Doonesbury comic strip, Garry Trudeau reckons he may have gotten too much too young. And despite her mastery of the written word, Joyce Carol Oates is skeptical about how well conversation can express the complexities of thought and emotions.
2. Making Her Way
Aired 15 October 2021
Natalie Merchant has experienced enough for several lives: teen rock star, fiercely independent solo artist, mother, wildly successful environmental campaigner. She’s been around the world and back, and she's done it in her own inimitable style.
3. Taking Time
Aired 22 October 2021
A fatal accident in his teens would come to define life for Darin Strauss. Also, from champion skier to acclaimed composer, Steven Mackey has never lost his rhythm.
4. Indefatigables
Aired 29 October 2021
Singer-songwriter Valerie June has been knocked down, but never out, by heartbreak, illness, and hardship. Now in his early 60s, choreographer and dancer Stephen Petronio has built a life and a body of work by deciding whose rules he is prepared to follow.
5. World of Words
Aired 5 November 2021
Writer Tochi Onyebuchi and visual artist Stephen Powers are both trying to change the world, one word at a time.
6. A Place of Their Own
Aired 12 November 2021
Playwright Sarah Gancher and folk musicians Jay Ungar and Molly Mason travelled far to find home.
7. Singular Purpose
Aired 19 November 2021
Poet Terrance Hayes and clarinetist Anthony McGill have been resolute in pursuit of their destinies.
8. Triumph Over Affliction
Aired 26 November 2021
Deborah Eisenberg and Shira Erlichman fought inner conflicts in search of personal peace.
9. Displacement
Aired 3 December 2021
Early on, singer-songwriter David Gray and writer Aleksandar Hemon struggled to be heard at home. But when they found acceptance abroad, their own countries—and the world—soon caught up.
10. Self Realization
Aired 10 December 2021
Author Yiyun Li and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez make work that fuels—and is fueled by—self-understanding.