Studio 360: Stewart Copeland & Zee Avi

Sting may have been the front man, but drummer Stewart Copeland was the heartbeat of The Police. In his memoir Strange Things Happen Copeland talks about how the band’s creative friction helped sell over 50 million records. And he blows the cover on his father, who raised the young Copeland in Beirut while spying for the CIA.

Then, a year after releasing her critically-acclaimed debut album, Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi has a new EP. Perhaps the only Borneo-born ukulele player to get a major record deal through YouTube, Zee Avi talks with Kurt about her music and performs live in the studio.

Finally, for over twenty years the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers. Photographer David Maisel found them, and shows the beautiful — and bizarre — chemical reactions that took place as the canisters corroded in his exhibit "Library of Dust," currently at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. Produced by Sarah Lilley. [Broadcast Date: September 4, 2010]