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PLAYBACK is a Variety / iHeartRadio podcast bringing you conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. New episodes air every Thursday. It would be fair to call Kevin Feige one of the key figures, if not the key figure, in the modern Hollywood landscape. As president of Marvel Studios and producer of…

<p>Mellody Hobson spoke truth to power at the New York Times Dealbook conference when she excoriated a roomful of Fortune 500 C-level executives for the lack of diversity in their leadership and in that room. &nbsp;The comments of this highly-successful black female CEO of Ariel Investments were echoed at the conference by Ken Chenault, the…

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify When Frederic Fekkai was a young man, he had no intention of entering the beauty space. In fact, he didn’t even know it existed. “I started out in law school, so I had no idea I was going to get into beauty. One day, I got…

So, you want to join a book club but you don’t know if you have the time in your schedule to actually commit to a meeting? Fear not, reader, there is another way to feel like you are a part of the literary community: by listening to podcast versions of book clubs. Book clubs have…

22 November, 7:46pm Scotty’s still away so Mils Muliaina is again joined by James McOnie. This week they discuss the All Black loss to Ireland on the weekend and unpick the New Zealand public’s response when things don’t lean in their favour. They also resume their pie chat with an intense focus on fillings and…

I didn’t know that I needed an opera podcast in my life until I heard the trailer for “Aria Code,” a new ten-episode series from the New York classical-music station WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera, and swooned with joy. Three episodes in, I’m still swooning. The show’s concept is simple: its host, Rhiannon Giddens, introduces…

For a certain privileged class, one of the worst feelings in the world is being ambushed by podcast ads while your hands are otherwise engaged in some activity such as washing dishes and thus unable to fast-forward. You feel trapped, an auditory hostage, like passengers on a subway that’s just been boarded by a busking…