Sound and Spirit

Explore the human spirit through music and ideas. Host Ellen Kushner weaves history, myth and spiritual traditions together with specially selected music to take listeners on a journey through time and space. Each episode dives into a unique aspect of the human experience such as love, joy and grief, to help connect cultures and cross generations for a unique understanding of life's most complicated questions. Produced by WGBH Radio Boston and PRI.

About Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner unites her talents as writer, producer and storyteller in her role as host. A graduate of Barnard College's Program in the Arts, Kushner also studied anthropology, ethnomusicology and folklore at Bryn Mawr College. She first worked in New York City as a fiction editor, copywriter and artists' representative before moving to Boston to join WGBH Radio. Read full bio.

National Funders

National Endowment for the Arts
PRI Program Fund
Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds