Recent NPR listening: 
David Lynch interviewed ("he'll never go back to shooting with celluloid again"); 
Ricky Gervais on Fresh Air discussing, among other things, differences between the British and American Offices; a contemporary movement in visual arts calling itself 
neo-realism; an ongoing Morning Edition series on how technology influences art, e.g., changes brought about by 
paint in tubes and 
78 RPM records.