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Film critic Ben Miller is joined by his non-critic brother Jake Miller to talk about films from a critic's and a common man's perspective. Sometimes they're on the same page...sometimes not.

Gerard Schwarz shares his enthusiasm for the music of Aaron Copland, the quintessential American composer. Born in 1900 into a family of immigrants in Brooklyn, Copland didn't come from a musical family and had to find his own way, even trying to learn harmony from a mail order course. Today, Copland has become a permanent part of our cultural landscape, as important to our national consciousness as Whitman, Whistler, or Melville.