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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Airline Fares, Amy Winehouse Doc, and KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance

    The DOJ is investigating four major airlines for collusion. Just how do airlines set fare prices anyway? And KCRW is in Berlin: Madeleine tours the former Stasi prison, where the East German Secret Police held and interrogated political prisoners.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 2, 2015 • 51m Listen

    This fourth of July weekend, millions of Americans will be flying somewhere, and those holiday plane tickets probably didn’t come cheap. So this week’s announcement that the Department of Justice is investigating the four major airlines for collusion caught our attention here at Press Play. Then, KCRW in Berlin: Madeleine tours the famous former Stasi prison—now a museum—where the East German Secret Police held and interrogated political prisoners during the Cold War. Next, the director of the new Amy Winehouse documentary talks about the singer’s early, jazzy, coherent years...before Back to Black, fame, and drugs. And in our weekly web roundup, we cover the backlash to the New York Times’ suggestion of putting peas in guacamole, “Zero UI,” and more.

    In this episode

    4 stories
    1. 0:00

      Airline Collusion and Price Fluctuations

      This fourth of July weekend, millions of Americans will be flying somewhere, and those holiday plane tickets probably didn’t come cheap. So this week’s announcement that the Department of Justice is investigating the four major airlines for collusion caught our attention.

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      8 min
    2. 8:48

      KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance

      Madeleine tours a former Stasi prison in Berlin—now a museum—where the East German Secret Police held and interrogated political prisoners during the Cold War.

      Read the story
      15 min
    3. 24:27

      Asif Kapadia, Director of the Amy Winehouse Documentary

      The documentary Amy comes out this week. Director Asif Kapadia talks with us about the deeply autobiographical nature of the singer’s lyrics, and how a smart, cocky young jazz singer turned into a cliched media-mobbed drug zombie.

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      15 min
    4. 41:00

      Web Roundup: PeaGate and Zero UI

      The internet went crazy yesterday when the New York Times committed Mexican food sacrilege. The paper of record published a recipe for guacamole that includes green peas. Also, Zero UI: a push to remove physical interface from our digital devices. And for all of us, how to deal with dogs and fireworks on the Fourth of July.

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      9 min
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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    In this episode

    4 stories
    1. 0:008 min

      Airline Collusion and Price Fluctuations

    2. 8:4815 min

      KCRW in Berlin: Surveillance

    3. 24:2715 min

      Asif Kapadia, Director of the Amy Winehouse Documentary

    4. 41:009 min

      Web Roundup: PeaGate and Zero UI

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