Culturetopia: Must-Listen Arts & Entertainment (Zoepraxiscope Edition)

NPR's weekly podcast of the best arts stories today features guest host Sara Sarasohn, She's an arts editor, a powerful presence backstage at NPR, and her ideas drive much of our cultural coverage. Guess what -- she's also a hilarious host.

This week, we've got stories about a fellow who transformed early photography and a lady who revolutionized contemporary film editing. In 1879, Eadweard Muybridge invented the Zoepraxiscope, a contraption that prefigured motion pictures. Less than a hundred years later, Dede Allen brought cutting-edge New Wave film editing techniques to Hollywood pictures like The Hustler and Bonnie and Clyde. In an interview, one of her acolytes remembers her motto: "Never let the audience get ahead of the story."

Also: Michael J. Fox talks about suffering "imposter syndrome" whenever he gives graduation speeches and the "weird karma" of playing Alex Keaton.

And for our 50 Great Voices series, NPR producer Neva Grant recalls her first encounter with the voice of Turkish diva Sezen Aksu.

Finally, David Byrne discusses writing a song cycle ... all about Imelda Marcos.

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