Museum Curator

Roy shares big news about the future of the podcast as it relates to his time at “The Daily Show.” Which leads to talking to a guest about burn out. The cause, the symptoms and how can you turn it around. The team chops it up with a HR heavyweight who once fired 100 people in 8 h ...  Show more

What does a game tester do? How to become one, and the leaps and bounds the industry takes to ensure video games are ready for action. Is Roy fair in adding GameStop to his growing list of the most duplicitous places on Earth, or is GameStop’s existence a by-product of the growin ...  Show more

In this episode, Violet Manners is joined by Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and former MP, for a wide-ranging conversation about the role of museums in public life. They discuss how institutions like the V&A are evolving in the 21st century - from ad ...  Show more

It’s a shame to think about audio of some of the most influential civil rights leaders collecting dust in a basement somewhere. Preservationist and audio producer Jocelyn Robinson has made preserving the audio archives at HBCUs her mission. Learn more about your ad-choices at htt ...  Show more

Dwan Reece, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, highlights the pervasive history of blackface in an effort to dismantle its continued use and power. This talk was filmed at TEDxMidatlantic. All TEDx events are organized independ ...  Show more

Nicholas Cullinan, the new director of the British Museum, seems to think so. “I'm not afraid of the past,” he says — which means talking about looted objects, the basement storerooms, and the leaking roof. We take the guided tour.