Why don’t we have more Nabokov on the CBC? They had him on in the 50s, and this clip shows.

Find out more about Barbara, her performances and buy her merch at www.badler.ca, and below, watch a clip of Barbara doing her poem “Florence”, about illiteracy.

Gerald Durrell loved animals, and this clip shows him with them.

Listen to the full track of the Patti Smith performance you heard woven into the podcast, and read a contextualization of her use of the word “nigger”.

Ella Fitzgerald was a true virtuoso of scat singing. The clip in the interview was taken from this performance, first aired in 1969.