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Blank on Blank turns lost audio interviews with cultural icons into a regular podcast and an animated series on YouTube with PBS Digital Studios. Created by Quoted Studios.

06/03/2017

Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock

Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead, an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode of our series, The Experimenters, we hear from two visionaries who believed that while we’ve started a technological revolution, we don’t quite know where it’s going to take us. But maybe most interesting of all […]

16 min
12/02/2017

Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness

Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver. Our podcast returns with lost interviews featuring this trio on self, sight, and deep-sea diving. The three icons had the imaginations and daring to go where none had gone before. They overcame indifference and bigotry, exploring the darkest depths of the ocean, and even challenging their own deepest assumptions. These […]

21 min
29/03/2016

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials *

“The evolutionary record is clear that extraterrestrials would be very different from us” – Carl Sagan in 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The incomprehensible vastness of the universe, the wonder of our own place in it all… Carl Sagan was able to explain the science of space in a way everyone could understand. As part of […]

13 min
15/03/2016

Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code *

“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” – Dame Steve Shirley in 2010 Dame Stephanie Shirley might be the most successful tech entrepreneur you have never heard of. In the early 1960s, Shirley started a barrier-breaking, all-woman software company that would eventually be valued at $3 billion. From […]

17 min
02/03/2016

Temple Grandin on Search Engines *

“Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function.” – Temple Grandin in 2008 This rarely heard oral history with the autism activist, author, and professor of animal science, was uncovered at Colorado State University. In this conversation, Temple Grandin is at her best, explaining for the rest of us what it’s […]

12 min
16/02/2016

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance *

“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” – Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace Architect Frank Lloyd Wright did something new when he made buildings that somehow became one with the landscape. Long, low lines, and interiors that brought the light and space […]

11 min
02/02/2016

Sally Ride on Dumb Questions *

“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” – Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, shortly after her historic launch in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem. At the time of this interview, as far as the public – and it turns out […]

12 min
15/12/2015

Garrison Keillor on Humor *

“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” – Garrison Keillor in 1994 In this new episode we have a conversation with a true storyteller, the humorist, Garrison Keillor. This interview was recorded in front a live […]

8 min

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Blank on Blank turns lost audio interviews with cultural icons into a regular podcast and an animated series on YouTube with PBS Digital Studios. Created by Quoted Studios.

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Quoted Studios
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2012 - 2017
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61
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Blank on Blank

Blank on Blank

Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock

Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials *

Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code *

Temple Grandin on Search Engines *

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance *

Sally Ride on Dumb Questions *

Garrison Keillor on Humor *

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Blank on Blank

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Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock

Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials *

Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code *

Temple Grandin on Search Engines *

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance *

Sally Ride on Dumb Questions *

Garrison Keillor on Humor *

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