{"podcast":{"title":"Song Exploder","slug":"song-exploder-390830","podcast_index_feed_id":390830,"rss_url":"https://feed.songexploder.net/SongExploder","website_url":"http://www.songexploder.net","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/song-exploder/images/3b97a9c5-fef1-4c84-8038-3c6efa808016/songexploder-logo-2025-with-title.jpg","author":"Hrishikesh Hirway (Maggie.Gourville@prx.org)","episode_count":372,"summary":"Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:00.468054+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830"},"episode":{"title":"Key Change: Baz Luhrmann on \"Time After Time\"","slug":"key-change-baz-luhrmann-on-time-after-time","published_at":"2026-03-18T14:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830/key-change-baz-luhrmann-on-time-after-time","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_93_00562c35-1751-420c-9325-afdddabf8c8b&uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/sblTq32fyWAjsHzze2LG/dovetail.prxu.org/_/93/00562c35-1751-420c-9325-afdddabf8c8b/KeyChange12-BazLuhrmann-Part1.mp3","summary":"My guest today is Baz Luhrmann, the award-winning director whose films include Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom , The Great Gatsby, Elvis, and Romeo + Juliet. His newest film is EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert , a critically acclaimed documentary about Elvis that’s playing right now in theaters and in IMAX. Before becoming a massively successful film director, Baz began his showbiz career as an actor, and as a ballroom dancer, in Australia. His first film was Strictly Ballroom , which came out in 1992, and became one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time. It was originally a play, and there’s a song in the film that was part of the story all the way back when it was first performed on stage. And that’s what Baz and I talked about for this episode. For more info, visit songexploder.net/baz-luhrmann.","meta_description":"My guest today is Baz Luhrmann, the award-winning director whose films include Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom , The Great Gatsby, Elvis, and Romeo + Jul…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1329,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/song-exploder-390830/episodes/key-change-baz-luhrmann-on-time-after-time/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/song-exploder-390830/key-change-baz-luhrmann-on-time-after-time.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}