Studio 360 was a Peabody Award-winning weekly public radio show of interviews and reporting about the cutting edge and history of the arts and pop culture.

It first aired in New York and Los Angeles and a few other cities in the fall of 2000; in 2020, at the time of its final episode, it was broadcast on more than 217 stations nationwide, and nearly a million people listened to each weekly episode over the air and by podcast. In addition to its two Peabodys and many other awards, Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic and former art critic for The New York Times, called it "the best program on radio.” Listen to the final episode:

Listen to Studio 360’s American Icons documentaries -- here are seven of the dozens of hours on groundbreaking works of art and culture:

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A non-exhaustive list of Studio 360 guests:

Chinua Achebe, Madeline Albright, Sherman Alexie, Herb Alpert, Woody Allen, Isabel Allende, Robert Altman, Pedro Amodovar, Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson, Aziz Ansari, Judd Apatow, Nina Arianda, Darren Aronofsky, Margaret Atwood, Kevin Bacon, Jon Robin Baitz, Nicholson Baker, Beck, Samantha Bee, Bell Orchestre, Tony Bennett, Michael Bierut, Kathryn Bigelow, Andrew Bird, Björk, Jack Black, Roy Blount, Eric Bogosian, TC Boyle, Ray Bradbury, Billy Bragg, Jeff Bridges, Albert Brooks, Mel Brooks, Bill Buford, T-Bone Burnett, Solomon Burke, Tim Burton, David Byrne, Don Byron, John Cale, James Cameron, Laura Cantrell, Elliot Carter, Rosanne Cash, Michael Chabon, David Chase, Lisa Cholodenko, Jimmy Cliff, Chuck Close, Diablo Cody, Stephen Colbert, Robert Coles, Billy Collins, Ry Cooder, Stewart Copeland, Sofia Coppola, Elvis Costello, Wayne Coyne, David Cronenberg, Alan Cumming, Willem Dafoe, Mike Daisey, Matt Damon, Del the Funky Homosapien, Jonathan Demme, Dirty Projectors, Junot Diaz, Joan Didion, Simon Doonan, Lena Dunham, Mark Duplass, Steve Earle, Christine Ebersole, Umberto Eco, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Chris Elliott, James Ellroy, Nora Ephron, Oskar Eustis, Edie Falco, Will Ferrell, Carrie Fisher, Jonathan Safran Foer, Caio Fonseca, Richard Ford, Milos Forman, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Morgan Freeman, Alan Furst, Neil Gaiman, Ricky Gervais, Frank Gehry, Paul Giamatti, Alex Gibney, William Gibson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Gilliam, Vince Gilligan, Milton Glaser, Philip Glass, Paul Goldberger, Adam Gopnik, Sue Grafton, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, John Guare, Merle Haggard, Hilary Hahn, Donald Hall, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Tom Hanks, Woody Harrelson, Ethan Hawke, Mark Helprin, Werner Herzog, Carl Hiaasen, A.M. Homes, Nick Hornby, Thomas Hoving, Arianna Huffington, Jeremy Irons, John Irving, Walter Isaacson, Pico Iyer, Howard Jacobson, Angelina Jolie, Bill T. Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Sharon Jones, Miranda July, Gabriel Kahane, Mindy Kaling, Maira Kalman, Charlie Kaufman, Diane Keaton, Catherine Keener, Jamaica Kincaid, Ben Kinglsey, Barbara Kingsolver, Walter Kirn, Diana Krall, Barbara Kruger, Lisa Kudrow, Tony Kushner, Ben Kweller, Jaron Lanier, Spike Lee, Annie Leibovitz, Sean Lennon, Neal Labute, Jhumpa Lahiri, k.d. lang, Jaron Lanier, Ursula Le Guin, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Lethem, Tracy Letts, David Lindsay-Abaire, George Lois, Courtney Love, Lois Lowry, Baz Luhrmann, Patti Lupone, David Lynch, Yo-Yo Ma, Norman Mailer, Andrew McCarthy, Frank McCourt, Martin McDonagh, Ian McEwan, Bobby McFerrin, Larry McMurtry, Macklemore, David Milch, Joanathan Miller, Tim Minchin, Anthony Minghella, Susan Minot, Eugene Mirman, Moby, Samuel Mockbee, Steven Moffat, Alfred Molina, Janelle Monae, Jason Moran, Errol Morris, Walter Mosley, Rick Moody, Errol Morris, Toni Morrison, Azar Nafisi, Mira Nair, Randy Newman, Nneka, Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, Lawrence O’Donnell, Téa Obreht, Todd Oldham, Yoko Ono, Elaine Pagels, Chuck Palahniuk, Gary Panter, Sarah Jessica Parker, Suzan-Lori Parks, Dolly Parton, Alexander Payne, Austin Pendleton, Itzhak Perlman, Philippe Petit, Arthur Phillips, Martha Plimpton, Amy Poehler, Sarah Polley, Richard Powers, Richard Price, Sam Raimi, Joshua Redman, David Remnick, Paul Reubens, Josh Ritter, Robert Redford, Jason Reitman, Anne Rice, Robbie Robertson, James Rosenquist, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Rudd, Paul Rudnick, Geoffrey Rush, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, Sapphire, Marjane Satrapi, George Saunders, Simon Schama, Ridley Scott, Julian Schnabel, Liev Schreiber, Amy Sedaris, Pete Seger, William Shatner, Fiona Shaw, Duncan Sheik, Lynn Shelton, Lionel Shriver, Gary Shteyngart, David Simon, Jane Smiley, Anna Deavere Smith, Patti Smith, Jill Sobule, Todd Solondz, Stephen Soderbergh, Barry Sonnenfeld, Susan Sontag, Regina Spektor, Art Spiegelman, Wesley Stace, Frank Stella, Joel Stein, Michael Stipe, Tom Stoppard, Quentin Tarantino, Lili Taylor, Teller, Twyla Tharp, Paul Theroux, They Might Be Giants, Alex Timbers, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Garry Trudeau, Chali 2na, Tune-Yards, Jerry Uelsmann, John Updike, Suzanne Vega, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Suzanne Vega, Gore Vidal, Sarah Vowell, Christopher Walken, Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips, Kerry Washington, Wendy Wasserstein, John Waters, Reggie Watts, Lawrence Weschler, Joss Whedon, Colson Whitehead, Wilco, Connie Willis, Wim Wenders, Wilco, Kate Winslet, Jacqueline Woodson, the XX, Dwight Yoakam and Neil Young.