If you could show the whole world one piece of art, what would it be?

Our guests share one piece of media: a painting, a movie, a work of literature, etc. that they hope everyone could experience. These works feed their soul and tell stories of universal themes and spirit.

Discover their choices below!

Paul F. Tompkins:

The Royal Shakespeare company’s production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1982)

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Jacke Wilson:

Purple Rain by Prince

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Anna Deavere Smith:

Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
(sometimes nature becomes art)

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Hari Kondabolu

Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)

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Patricia Heaton:

On The Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)

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Ken Burns:

The Music of Louis Armstrong
(Among many other works of art)

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Tim Gunn:

The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Flemming)

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Ana Marie Cox:

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis [Books Series]

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Susie Essman:

The humor of Gilbert Gottfried

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Larry Wilmore:

Animal Crackers (Heerman, 1930)

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Sam Harris:

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

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Robert Costa:

The music of Ray Charles

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Rabbi Steve Leder:

Talmudic discussion of The Ten Plagues

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Special Episode

God is the Bigger Elvis (Rebecca Cammisa, 2012)

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Julia Sweeney

Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

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Erick Erickson

Patton (Schaffner, 1970)

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Rainn Wilson

“Soul Boom” by Rainn Wilson

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Killer Mike

“The Runis of Empires” by C.F. Volney

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Charlie Sykes

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Michael Patrick King

Pietà Sculpture by Michelangelo in Rome

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Stephen Mitchell

“War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy

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Yvonne Orji

“Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams” by Yvonne Orji

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