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The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.

“Why’s/Wise 1” Amiri Baraka

As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.

Harvard Vocarium Recording (1951)

"Gerontion" T. S. Eliot

"A Song for Simeon" T. S. Eliot

"Triumphal March" T. S. Eliot

"Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S. Eliot

"Journey of the Magi" T. S. Eliot

"The Hollow Men" T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot

Ash Carter, the 25th Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Belfer Center, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about how he connected the technology industry with the Defense Department through DIUx, the tensions between the President and his cabinet, and what lessons we can learn from medieval history.

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Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Tech, and the Usefulness of Medieval History

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3wSFvt6

Retired Army Major General William Rapp, former Commandant of both the United States Military Academy and the U.S. Army War College, and currently the Faculty Chair of the Belfer Center’s National Security Fellows Program, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about civilian-military relations, congressional oversight, and the biggest adjustments to civilian life.
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William Rapp on Civ-Mil Relations, Army Culture, and His Biggest Adjustment to Civilian Life

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3uIAvph

Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog), author of the “Schneier on Security” blog and a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about cybersecurity and tech, his book "Click Here to Kill Everybody," and the hacker mentality.

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Bruce Schneier on Cybersecurity, "Click Here to Kill Everybody," and the Hacker Mentality

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3vOqEiY

Social psychologist Jennifer Lerner, the Navy’s first Chief Decision Scientist and a Harvard Kennedy School professor, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about decision science, leadership, and the sunk cost bias.

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Read Lerner's Article on "Decision Science Meets National Security": https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/Lerner.2019.pdf

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Jennifer Lerner on Decision Science, Leadership, and the Sunk Cost Bias

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Norman Roule (@Norman_Roule), a 34-year CIA veteran and Middle East expert, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about the culture at the CIA, Yemen, and theater.

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Norman Roule on the Culture at the CIA, Yemen, and Theater

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CIA Officer Sunny J.S., a former presidential daily briefer, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about CIA myths, the Presidential Daily Brief, and keeping secrets.
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CIA Officer Sunny J.S. on CIA Myths, the Presidential Daily Brief, and Keeping Secrets

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Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Tech, and the Usefulness of Medieval History

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