The Gould Standard

A conversational podcast about the arts, culture, and contemporary society.

We talk with artistic heroes working to create a more inclusive and mindful world, hear their incredible stories, and get to know what makes them tick. Our guests are leaders in a wide range of fields, nationalities, and lived experience, including musical composers and performers, painters, poets, filmmakers, actors, dancers, broadcasters, and more.

The Gould Standard

  • Cory Doctorow
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    Cory Doctorow
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    Has technology ushered in a Brave New World of creativity, connectedness and individual empowerment— or has it created an invisible tool to enable surveillance, manipulation and the invasion of our privacy? Few people alive speak more clearly and provocatively to these issues than Cory Doctorow, award-winning science fiction writer, blogger and activist for a more open, accountable and human-rights-focused digital future. In this in-depth conversation with host Brian Levine, Cory explores the deep social engagement, sense of wonder, and occasionally, the rage that inspires his fiction and non-fiction writing.

  • Petula Clark – Part 2
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    Petula Clark – Part 2
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    Welcome back to Part Two of The Gould Standard’s exclusive conversation with Petula Clark. Petula and host Brian Levine talk about her Hollywood film career, an encounter with Elvis in Las Vegas, how she accidentally ended up on John and Yoko’s “Give Peace a Chance” record, and Petula’s adventures in the present moment.

  • Petula Clark – Part 1
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    In Part One of this exclusive two-part conversation with the inimitable Petula Clark, host Brian Levine chats with Petula about her early life as a child star during WWII, being a Brit pop icon in America and a French chanteuse in Paris, her controversy with Harry Belafonte, as well as the charming, head-over-heels story of how she met Ella Fitzgerald.

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