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| Stephen Sondheim - Part 2 | Sondheim, who turned 90 on March 22, composed the music and wrote lyrics for 'Sweeney Todd,' 'Into the Woods,' 'Company' and others... | NPR | 00:53:54 |
| Trump's War On The Presidency | Journalist Benjamin Wittes spoke with Terry Gross about how President Trump has changed the presidency fundamentally... | NPR | 00:47:34 |
| Michael Pollan On Caffeine | OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA author Michael Pollan talks about his audiobook, CAFFEINE: HOW COFFEE AND TEA CREATED THE MODERN WORLD... | NPR | 00:49:17 |
| Mobilize In A Pandemic | Max Brooks became an expert on disaster preparedness through researching for his books, WORLD WAR Z, GERM WARFARE and DEVOLUTION... | NPR | 00:47:34 |
| Comic Marc Maron | Maron named his new Netflix comedy special END TIMES FUN before the COVID-19 pandemic started; but now the title feels eerily apt. | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim | Broadway is dark because of the virus, but that doesn't need to stop us from celebrating the 90th birthday of Broadway's best living composer and lyricist | NPR | 00:49:11 |
| An Orchestra Played On | The Philadelphia Orchestra closed because of the pandemic. Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin reflects on their final performance in an empty hall | NPR | 00:49:15 |
| Abolishing The Electoral College | Jesse Wegman says the Electoral College's winner-take-all rule is not mandated by the Constitution: There's nothing keeping us from changing it. | NPR | 00:49:54 |
| Actor Hank Azaria | Hank plays a colorful baseball announcer in the IFC comedy series BROCKMIRE. He speaks about sobriety, his flamboyant character and... | NPR | 00:48:41 |
| Octavia Spencer | Spencer stars in the new Netflix limited series SELF MADE as Madam C.J. Walker, America's first female self-made millionaire... | NPR | 00:49:03 |
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth's novel is an alternative history which imagines Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh beats FDR in the 1940 presidential election... | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| Trump's Mismanagement of Coronavirus | ?Dan Diamond says dysfunction within the White House, infighting and the need to flatter Trump have slowed response to the new pandemic.? | NPR | 00:48:51 |
| Saudi Crown Prince | Ben Hubbard says Mohammed bin Salman is full of contradictions. Hubbard's book, 'MBS,' tells the story of the enigmatic leader... | NPR | 00:48:60 |
| RuPaul | RuPaul describes his drag persona as "one-part Cher, two-parts David Bowie, one-part Diana Ross and two heaping spoonfuls of Dolly Parton." | NPR | 00:50:36 |
| Writer James McBride | McBride's new novel, DEACON KING KONG, takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project like the one he grew up in... | NPR | 00:48:51 |
| Biographer Robert Caro | Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Caro was never interested in only telling the stories of great men. "I wanted to use their lives to show..." | NPR | 00:48:46 |
| CIA's Secret-Stealing Operation | Crypto AG, a Swiss company owned by the CIA and German intelligence, sold encrypters that let them spy on those who bought them. | NPR | 00:49:18 |
| Native Peoples' Fight For Survival | Louise Erdrich's new novel, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, was inspired by her grandfather, chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa... | NPR | 00:48:28 |
| Father Searches For Son | The son of Roman Dial vanished in the Costa Rican wilderness. Dial talks about his frantic search for his son - and for answers... | NPR | 00:49:17 |
| Hardship & Hope After Prison | Former New Orleans parole officer Jason Hardy says the parole and probation system fails the most vulnerable... | NPR | 00:47:55 |
| Aidy Bryant On SHRILL | Bryant co-writes and stars in the comedy series based on Lindy West's book about identifying as fat and a feminist. Interview of guitarist Marty Grosz. | NPR | 00:49:39 |
| Understanding Trump's Hit List | Reporter Jonathan Swan says Trump has crossed a psychological line since impeachment, developing a list of disloyal officials to oust... | NPR | 00:50:09 |
| Actor Ben Mendelsohn On THE OUTSIDER | In the HBO series, Ben plays a detective trying to solve a murder - and resisting the idea that the killer is supernatural... | NPR | 00:49:34 |
| Facebook: The Inside Story | Wired Editor Steven Levy reflects on Facebook's enigmatic leader and its reckless drive for expansion in his new book, FACEBOOK: THE INSIDE STORY | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| A More Unjust America | In his book, Adam Cohen asserts that the Supreme Court has been a right-wing court for 50 years. Kevin Whitehead reviews LIFE GOES ON. | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| Mother's Secret Gambling | Growing up, Bridgett M. Davis' mother booked and banked bets from their home in Detroit. She writes about her experience... | NPR | 00:49:24 |
| Claire Danes | She has played CIA agent Carrie Mathison on Homeland. As the last season begins, she looks back on the series and her teenage years. | NPR | 00:48:49 |
| Trump's Secrets At Deutsche Bank | In his book DARK TOWERS, David Enrich traces Deutsche Bank's shadowy practices, and also talks about it's long relationship with Donald Trump. | NPR | 00:49:03 |
| Rachael & Vilray Sing | The music duo perform Swing Standard songs from their self-titled debut album, which draws on the music of the '30s and '40s. | NPR | 00:48:18 |
| Trump's Testing Of America | Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker discuss presidential rages, erratic decision-making and other troubling tendencies of the Trump presidency. | NPR | 00:49:14 |
| Nick Hornby & Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Hornby's novel, HIGH FIDELITY, is the basis of a new Hulu series. Remembering Joseph Shabalala, frontman of the African a capella group. | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| Amazon & the Jeff Bezos Rise & Reign | The new FRONTLINE PBS documentary AMAZON EMPIRE investigates their business practices and questions about privacy, surveillance & regulation. | NPR | 00:47:57 |
| The Watergate Prosecution | Jill Wine-Banks' memoir, THE WATERGATE GIRL, is about confronting Nixon White House insider witnesses, enduring courtroom sexism and ... | NPR | 00:48:49 |
| The 2020 Disinformation War | The Trump campaign is planning to spend $1 billion and a lot will go towards disinformation and propaganda. McKay Coppins reveals how. | NPR | 00:48:26 |
| Caffeine Addiction & Withdrawal | OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA author Michael Pollan talks about his new audiobook about a drug we use every day without thinking of it as a drug... | NPR | 00:47:21 |
| Todd Phillips & Kirk Douglas | JOKER director Todd Phillips tells how he disguised his film as a comic book movie. We remember SPARTACUS actor Kirk Douglas... | NPR | 00:48:10 |
| A New Frontier Of Assassination | Adam Entous says we could face more Iranian retaliation for General Soleimani's death: "They take a long time to strike back." | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| Coronavirus, Animal Infections, Pandemics | Science writer David Quammen talks about the new virus in China, what we learned from SARS, and how viruses travel from animal to animal to humans. | NPR | 00:49:13 |
| Grief, Guilt & A Secret Addiction | Eilene Zimmerman's memoir, SMACKED, shows how her former spouse, a wealthy attorney, hid his addiction and depression from her and their children. | NPR | 00:48:40 |
| AMERICAN FACTORY Documentary | Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert's Oscar-nominated documentary goes inside a Chinese-owned automotive glass factory in Ohio. | NPR | 00:49:07 |
| Antonio Banderas On PAIN AND GLORY | He earned his first Oscar nomination for his role in Pedro Almodóvar's film. Critic John Powers reviews the Netflix TV show GIRI/HAJI. | NPR | 00:48:37 |
| Upheaval In The Middle East | Kim Ghattas' book BLACK WAVE is about MidEast extremism and violence since the 70s. Searching London's River Thames for items lost to history. | NPR | 00:47:49 |
| What If There's An Election Meltdown | Law professor Rick Hasen considers various catastrophes in his book, ELECTION MELTDOWN. Ken Tucker reviews THE NEON SKYLINE by Andy Shauf. | NPR | 00:48:27 |
| Singer-Songwriter Amy Rigby | She talks of touring with her baby, her manifesto, and meeting her husband, Wreckless Eric. Justin Chang reviews the indie movie THE ASSISTANT. | NPR | 00:48:49 |
| Secret History Of Nuclear War | In his book, THE BOMB, Fred Kaplan tells how our presidents, their advisers and generals planned for, and sometimes narrowly avoided, nuclear war. | NPR | 00:49:10 |
| Inside Trump's Den Of Destruction | Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker's book, A VERY STABLE GENIUS, details presidential rages, erratic decision-making and other troubling tendencies... | NPR | 00:50:11 |
| The Horrors Of Auschwitz | Auschwitz was liberated 75 years ago. We revisit archival interviews with survivor Elie Wiesel and historian Laurence Rees. | NPR | 00:48:20 |
| Barr's Support Of Trump | David Rohde says Barr is the most feared, criticized and effective member of the Trump's cabinet. David Bianculli reviews STAR TREK: PICARD. | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| In Trump's 'Den Of Destruction' | Reporters Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker based their book A VERY STABLE GENIUS, on over 200 interviews with administration insiders. | NPR | 00:49:24 |
| Actor Tim Roth | Tim is in the Tarantino films RESERVOIR DOGS, THE HATEFUL EIGHT and PULP FICTION, and the new movie THE SONG OF NAMES. | NPR | 00:49:49 |
| Our Racist Past & Present | Attorney Bryan Stevenson says "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say Never again." | NPR | 00:48:18 |
| Why Religion? | Religion scholar Elaine Pagels' book, WHY RELIGION?, combines memoir and biblical scholarship to reflect on loss and faith... | NPR | 00:48:20 |
| Iran's Secret Influences | James Risen says new documents show Iran embedded itself in the politics of Iraq. General Soleimani oversaw proxy wars in Iraq and Syria. | NPR | 00:48:04 |
| Martin Scorsese | His film, THE IRISHMAN, is up for 10 Academy Awards. He spoke with Terry Gross about death, redemption and his biggest flop... | NPR | 00:49:09 |
| 'Fixers' That Created President Trump | Joe Palazzolo & Michael Rothfeld's book 'The Fixers: The Bottom-feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, & Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President'... | NPR | 00:48:17 |
| Coup of 1898 & Rise of White Supremacy | Wilmington, N.C. White supremacists plotted a bloody purge around the 1898 election. David Zucchino tells the story in his new book... | NPR | 00:49:40 |
| Remembering Buck Henry | Henry, who died Jan. 8, co-wrote the film GET SMART with Mel Brooks and made regular appearances as a guest host on Saturday Night Live... | NPR | 00:49:03 |
| America's Contest With China | Evan Osnos says China is building up its military, and Pentagon analysts believe it could defeat U.S. forces in a confrontation along its borders. | NPR | 00:48:47 |
| The Trumps & Kushners | Andrea Bernstein, author of the book AMERICAN OLIGARCHS talks with Terry Gross about the family histories of the Trumps and the Kushners... | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Boys & Sex | Peggy Orenstein's book is based on extensive interviews with more than 100 college and college-bound boys between the ages of 16 and 22... | NPR | 00:48:33 |
| Director Todd Phillips | JOKER is an origin story for the villain in the Batman series, but director Todd Phillips says it's not a comic book movie. | NPR | 00:49:16 |
| Jordan Peele/Francis Ford Coppola | We close out our 'Best of the Decade' series with two of our favorite film directors... | NPR | 00:50:05 |
| Patti Smith/Bruce Springsteen | Our Best of the Decade series continues with two music icons. Patti Smith spoke on JUST KIDS, & Bruce Springsteen on BORN TO RUN. | NPR | 00:47:30 |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates/Toni Morrison | Our Best of the Decade series continues with two of the most influential writers of our time... | NPR | 00:48:51 |
| In Concert | Three music interviews. String band Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jazz singer Catherine Russell and bandleader Jon Batiste. | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| Howard Stern/Joan Rivers | Our Best of the Decade series continues with two irreverent New Yorkers. Stern on his early shock-jock days & Rivers, a pioneer woman in comedy. | NPR | 00:50:43 |
| Anthony Bourdain/David Carr | Our Best of the Decade series continues with media giants lost too soon. Chef-turned-travel-host Anthony Bourdain & columnist David Carr. | NPR | 00:48:57 |
| Meryl Streep/Carrie Fisher | This week, we are listening back to some of our favorite interviews from the past decade, with Meryl Streep and Carrie Fisher... | NPR | 00:51:15 |
| Rosemary Clooney In Concert | To celebrate Christmas, we listen back to a concert given by the late singer and actress in 1997... | NPR | 00:50:25 |
| A Roots & Rockabilly Holiday Concert | Singer-songwriter JD McPherson and his band perform live in studio from SOCKS. Ken Tucker reviews Tyler Childers' album, COUNTRY SQUIRE. | NPR | 00:49:53 |
| 2019 In TV & Film | TV critic David Bianculli and film critic Justin Chang sit down with Terry Gross to share their top 10 lists and talk about larger themes... | NPR | 00:49:31 |
| Hoffa's Disappearance | Jack Goldsmith's memoir IN HOFFA'S SHADOW is about his investigation of his stepfather's involvement in the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa... | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| Adam Sandler & The Safdie Bros | Sandler plays a jewelry store owner who's deep in debt in a new thriller by writer/directors Josh and Benny Safdie. | NPR | 00:48:52 |
| The War In Afghanistan | The Washington Post obtained information that reveals U.S. officials misled the public about the course of the war. | NPR | 00:49:54 |
| Julie Andrews & Her Daughter | Andrews talks about her career and family life and her eldest daughter reflects on what it was like growing up with Mary Poppins... | NPR | 00:50:32 |
| Charlize Theron | Theron has direct experience with what she calls the "psychological damage" of sexual harassment. Her new film, BOMBSHELL. | NPR | 00:48:60 |
| Comic Wanda Sykes | Before she became a comic, she worked at the NSA and had top security clearance. Now she takes on the president in her Emmy-nominated Netflix special. | NPR | 00:49:21 |
| Medicare For All, Explained | Sarah Kliff talks about the costs and challenges of switching to a universal healthcare system and what it might mean to eliminate private insurance... | NPR | 00:50:15 |
| Conan O'Brien | He recently switched up the format of his late-night show, and has launched the second season of his podcast, CONAN O'BRIEN NEEDS A FRIEND... | NPR | 00:48:45 |
| Trump & His Generals | Peter Bergen reflects on Trump's soured relationships with Generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly. A bunch of yes men supporting a one-man show?... | NPR | 00:50:32 |
| Actor Alex Borstein | He's won back-to-back Emmys for playing a tough, street-wise talent manager on the Amazon series, THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL... | NPR | 00:49:15 |
| Conductor M. Tilson Thomas | Tilson Thomas will receive the Kennedy Center Lifetime Artistic Achievement award. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1995 and 2012. | NPR | 00:48:58 |
| Ukraine's President on Trump | After 6 months in office, Volodymyr Zelensky is "quite cynical" and feels "there are no reliable allies," journalist Simon Shuster says. | NPR | 00:50:06 |
| The Stuff You Donate | Your average thrift store in the U.S. only sells about one third of the stuff on its shelves, Adam Minter says. The rest... | NPR | 00:49:09 |
| Living Between Life & Death | BJ Miller's experience led him to pursue a career in end-of-life care and palliative medicine. His book is A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO THE END. | NPR | 00:50:54 |
| Actor David Harbour | Harbour talks of working with teen actors in STRANGER THINGS, & his bipolar disorder. Remembering cartoonist Gahan Wilson. | NPR | 00:49:19 |
| Telling Kids The Truth | Marielle Heller says. Her film, A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, centers on Fred Rogers' unlikely friendship with a cynical journalist. | NPR | 00:48:32 |
| Prince's Posthumous Memoir | Prince died in 2016, leaving behind an unfinished memoir. Dan Piepenbring, his co-writer, recalls the moment he knew he could make... | NPR | 00:50:06 |
| Actor Edward Norton | He wrote, directed and stars in the film noir MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN. He talks about his film and his grandfather's legacy. | NPR | 00:48:15 |
| Inside the Steele Dossier | During the 2016 campaign former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele investigated Donald Trump's involvement with Russia... | NPR | 00:49:06 |
| College Behind Bars | A new PBS documentary follows prisoners earning college degrees via the Bard Prison Initiative while in maximum security. | NPR | 00:48:24 |
| Leonard Cohen | He died in 2016, leaving behind many unpublished poems and lyrics. His son Adam Cohen discusses his finest works and the way he worked. | NPR | 00:46:23 |
| Foreign Influence On U.S. Politics | Expert Ben Freeman says that in 2020 we are going to see a level of foreign influence on our election that's even higher than in 2016. | NPR | 00:48:24 |
| Telling Kids The Truth | Marielle Heller's film, A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, centers on Fred Rogers' unlikely friendship with a cynical journalist. | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Russian Assassination Program | Heidi Blake found evidence connecting Russian hitmen to 14 deaths in the UK. They attracted little interest from British authorities. | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| Actor Robert Pattinson | After becoming a success in big box office films, he pivoted to indie art house films, like his new one, THE LIGHTHOUSE... | NPR | 00:50:01 |
| THE CROWN Creator Peter Morgan | Season 3 of the the historical drama about Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family begins Sunday. We listen back to our interview... | NPR | 00:48:56 |
| Reese Witherspoon | Frustrated by the lack of leading roles for women, she started her own production company. Her new project, THE MORNING SHOW... | NPR | 00:48:19 |
| Actor Willem Dafoe | He's played villains, soldiers, van Gogh and Jesus. He talks about being a good bad guy. Ken Tucker reviews DaBaby's album KIRK... | NPR | 00:49:28 |
| Online Extremists | Andrew Marantz spent years with far-right online extremists watching them spread false news by exploiting social media. | NPR | 00:49:08 |
| Judd Apatow On Garry Shandling | Judd talks about his late mentor, stand-up legend Garry Shandling, and the personal trauma that formed him... | NPR | 00:47:29 |
| The Fugitive Slave Act | Andrew Delbanco says the 1850 law paved the way for the Civil War by endangering the lives of escaped slaves and free blacks in the North... | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| A President And Congress Go To War | Emily Bazelon explores what it really means to be held in contempt of Congress these days. In the past, you could be jailed... | NPR | 00:47:16 |
| How We Fight For Our Lives | Saeed Jones, a former culture editor and LGBTQ editor at BuzzFeed, talks about his search for identity and being "mad as hell and gay as hell." | NPR | 00:49:06 |
| Hearing In A Deafening World | David Owen talks about why it's hard to follow conversation in a loud restaurant, the cause of tinnitus, and breakthroughs in hearing aid technology. | NPR | 00:49:36 |
| Musician Allison Moorer | Her memoir and album (both titled BLOOD) are about her father murdering her mother and her road to healing. | NPR | 00:47:49 |
| Remembering Robert Evans | He ran Paramount Studios from the late '60s to early '70s and brought CHINATOWN, ROSEMARY'S BABY, & THE GODFATHER to the big screen. | NPR | 00:49:01 |
| Impeachment Drama | Andrew Kramer says impeachment puts Ukrainian President in a tough spot: He may be dealing with President Biden next year, or maybe Trump. | NPR | 00:48:12 |
| Mr. Robot Creator Sam Esmail | In college, he shied away from parties and instead took refuge in the the computer lab, where he experimented with hacking... | NPR | 00:48:50 |
| Living With Tourette's | For novelist Kevin Wilson, talks about his experience with Tourette's and how writing gives him a reprieve from his tics. | NPR | 00:48:45 |
| Prince's Posthumous Memoir | Prince died in 2016, leaving behind an unfinished memoir. Dan Piepenbring, his co-writer, recalls the moment he knew he could... | NPR | 00:50:32 |
| Tom Perrotta On MRS. FLETCHER | It tells the story of Eve, a single mother whose only child, Brendan, has left for college. It was inspired by his own kids moving out. | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Actor Kathryn Hahn | Hahn stars in the HBO series MRS. FLETCHER as a divorced mom whose son goes away to college. Kevin Whitehead reviews the album GOOD HOPE. | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| Mosul & The Fall of ISIS | James Verini gives an account of the 2017 battle to drive ISIS from Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq. The fighting left thousands dead | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| The Syrian Civil War | Washington Post Beirut Bureau Chief Liz Sly discusses Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces and her experience reporting in war zones. | NPR | 00:48:19 |
| Janis Joplin | Biographer Holly George-Warren describes Joplin as a bookworm who worked hard to create her "blues feelin' mama" persona... | NPR | 00:47:41 |
| Jazz Singer Anita O'Day | O'Day inspired the so-called cool jazz singers of the '50s. We remember actor Robert Forster who died last Friday at 78... | NPR | 00:47:53 |
| Climate Change & Coastal Land | Gilbert Gaul says federal subsidies encourage developers to build on the coasts despite increasing risks from climate change... | NPR | 00:48:42 |
| Attica Locke | Her novel, HEAVEN, MY HOME, centers on a black Texas ranger searching for the missing son of an Aryan Brotherhood leader... | NPR | 00:49:02 |
| Ronan Farrow | He talks about the systemic ways in which top institutions aid and abet powerful people accused of crimes, silence witnesses, and... | NPR | 00:46:58 |
| Elton John | He talks about his volatile childhood, addiction, and fame. His memoir is called ME. Lloyd Schwartz reviews a documentary on Maria Callas. | NPR | 00:48:33 |
| Breaking Bad Sequel El Camino | We review the movie, which Netflix dropped and talk with series creator and writer Vince Gilligan and actor Aaron Paul. | NPR | 00:48:07 |
| The Westboro Baptist Church | Growing up in the notorious church, Megan Phelps-Roper was told that God killed soldiers as punishment for America's sins and... | NPR | 00:47:19 |
| Trump's Impeachment Peril | How Trump fell for a media campaign that was designed to help him. Maureen Corrigan reviews the new memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES. | NPR | 00:49:28 |
| Whistleblower Christopher Wylie | He exposed Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit and the Trump campaign. His new book: MINDF*CK... THE PLOT TO BREAK AMERICA. | NPR | 00:49:05 |
| Anthony Roth Costanzo | Costanzo is a countertenor, about to star in the Metropolitan Opera's production of 'Akhnaten,' by Philip Glass... | NPR | 00:48:24 |
| Claire Tomalin | After writing biographies, she turned to memoir. A LIFE OF MY OWN tells of her child conflict, work, infidelity and finding herself. | NPR | 00:48:48 |
| Trump's Border Proposals | Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael Shear's book chronicls Trump's attempts to upend the nation's immigration system. | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| Conan O'Brien | Recently changed the format of his show, and is about to launch the second season of his podcast, CONAN O'BRIEN NEEDS A FRIEND. | NPR | 00:49:12 |
| Jimmy Hoffa's Disappearance | Jack Goldsmith's memoir investigates his stepfather's involvement in the 1975 disappearance of mob-connected labor leader Hoffa. | NPR | 00:48:57 |
| Actor Antonio Banderas | He stars in Pedro Almodóvar's new film PAIN AND GLORY as a screenwriter and director suffering with physical pain, and pain of the soul. | NPR | 00:49:31 |
| Captive Animal Species | Joel Sartore's mission is to document each captive animal species in the world. His book: VANISHING: THE WORLD'S MOST VULNERABLE ANIMALS. | NPR | 00:48:09 |
| Piety & Power | Tom LoBianco describes Mike Pence as a man of faith who's willing to put political ambition ahead of his beliefs. His book: PIETY & POWER. | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Singing Cowboys | Musician Doug Green talks of a largely forgotten chapter of music history, the singing cowboy. He's featured in Ken Burns' new PBS series. | NPR | 00:49:29 |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates On THE WATER DANCER | His book is set in slave times and re-imagines the Underground Railroad's leaders as having a magical power to teleport people out of slavery. | NPR | 00:49:29 |
| Tegan And Sara | The music duo revisit their teen years and early music in a new memoir, HIGH SCHOOL, and companion album, HEY, I'M JUST LIKE YOU. | NPR | 00:49:41 |
| Julian Fellowes & Maggie Smith | As DOWNTON ABBEY opens in theaters, we listen back to our interviews with the series creator Julian Fellowes and star Maggie Smith. | NPR | 00:49:04 |
| Edward Snowden | He talks about his first hack, why he decided to leak documents, and his 40 days detained in Moscow. His new book is PERMANENT RECORD. | NPR | 00:48:10 |
| NBC Journalist Andrea Mitchell | She looks back on her career in journalism. She's receiving a lifetime achievement Emmy later on Sept. 24. Review of HEAVEN, MY HOME. | NPR | 00:48:24 |
| Reconstruction & The Constitution | Eric Foner on how current issues of racial inequality, voter suppression and mass incarceration relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. | NPR | 00:48:46 |
| Investigating Brett Kavanaugh | In their new book Kate Kelly & Robin Pogrebin investigate allegations against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh... | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| Singer Linda Ronstadt | The singer spoke with Terry Gross in 2013 about her career and her Parkinson's diagnosis. The new documentary, THE SOUND OF MY VOICE. | NPR | 00:48:27 |
| Where Does Recycling Go? | Now that China isn't taking our recycling, where will it go? Environmentalist Kate O'Neill discusses the global politics of waste. | NPR | 00:47:42 |
| Tan France Of QUEER EYE | The son of Pakistani immigrants, says the thought of being one of the very first openly gay South Asian men on a major show was hard to handle. | NPR | 00:47:53 |
| The Weinstein Investigation | How Weinstein prevented investigation, actors speaking on the record, and the final showdown at the 'NYT' before publishing. | NPR | 00:48:60 |
| The CIA & Mind Control | Stephen Kinzer's book, Poisoner in Chief, exposes how the CIA worked in the 50s and 60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins... | NPR | 00:49:04 |
| THE DEUCE | Maggie Gyllenhaal produces and stars in the HBO series. The show centers on porn, organized crime, politics & feminism in 1970s New York. | NPR | 00:49:33 |
| Trump's Conflicts Of Interest | David Fahrenthold says in the past, an honor system helped keep presidents from using the office to benefit themselves. Not Trump! | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Fentanyl & The Dark Web | Author Ben Westhoff says the synthetic opioid, while useful in hospitals, is killing more Americans as a street drug than any other in history. | NPR | 00:48:21 |
| Elvis' Guitarist James Burton | He went pro at 14, played in Ricky Nelson's band, and on hundreds of recordings, including those by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash. | NPR | 00:49:24 |
| Emmys Week 5 | Raphael Bob-Waksberg's Emmy-nominated series BOJACK HORSEMAN.? Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle's series PEN15. | NPR | 00:49:60 |
| Emmys Week 4 | Billy Eichner's Emmy-nominated series, BILLY ON THE STREET. Randy Rainbow's satirical songs about Trump to the melodies of show tunes. | NPR | 00:49:20 |
| Emmys Week 3 | Interviews of Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll starring & writing) and Christina Applegate (Dead to Me starring). | NPR | 00:49:35 |
| Emmys Week 2 | We talk with Ava DuVernay, director of the Netflix series WHEN THEY SEE US, and Michael K. Williams, who performs in the series. | NPR | 00:48:47 |
| Emmys Week 1 | We talk with nominees Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ben Stiller, and Patricia Arquette about their features... | NPR | 00:48:27 |
| Bill Hader & John Mulaney | Hader is Emmy nominated for acting in and writing the HBO series, BARRY, and Mulaney for his SNL episode. | NPR | 00:48:53 |
| Remembering Peter Fonda | Fonda spoke to Terry Gross in 1998 about ULEE'S GOLD, EASY RIDER & his acting philosophy of "doing less and making more of it." | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| Direction Of The Opioid Epidemic | Scott Higham says evidence shows the drug industry shipped large quantities of pills to certain communities in pursuit of greater profits. | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Character Actor Stephen Root | He got an Emmy nomination for his role in the HBO series BARRY. Kevin Whitehead reviews the album BEGIN AGAIN from pianist Fred Hersch... | NPR | 00:49:31 |
| How We Think About Race & Gender | In GODS OF THE UPPER AIR, Charles King tells of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and other anthropologists who challenged outdated notions... | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Exploring Underwater Caves | Diver and photographer Jill Heinerth talks about some of her most dangerous and exhilarating experiences underwater... | NPR | 00:49:12 |
| Actor Jonathan Groff | Groff stars in the crime-thriller series MINDHUNTER, now in its second season on Netflix. He also talks about his roles for HBO. | NPR | 00:49:23 |
| Hannah Shaw: Kitten Lady | She rescued hundreds of kittens. Her book about fostering: TINY BUT MIGHTY. Remembering saxophonist & clarinetist Bob Wilber. | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| Janet Mock On POSE | Mock made history as the first trans woman of color to write and direct an episode of TV for her work on Ryan Murphy's FX series POSE. | NPR | 00:48:12 |
| Secret History Of Koch Industries | In his new book, KOCHLAND, journalist Christopher Leonard chronicles how the Koch brothers planned to remake the Republican Party. | NPR | 00:48:55 |
| Sister Helen Prejean | Best known for her 1993 memoir, DEAD MAN WALKING, about her role as a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row...' | NPR | 00:49:28 |
| Remembering Toni Morrison | The Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of BELOVED, THE BLUEST EYE, SULA, SONG OF SOLOMON, and other novels, essays and... | NPR | 00:49:33 |
| Disinformation & The Murder Of Seth Rich | In July 2016, DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered in D.C. Michael Isikoff tells how the murder was turned into a conspiracy theory. | NPR | 00:49:11 |
| Sex Discrimination In Hollywood | The documentary THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING explores how women in Hollywood push for more representation in front of and behind the camera. | NPR | 00:48:36 |
| Jia Tolentino On Feminism... | She writes about how social media shapes identity, public discourse and political engagement, particularly for millennials like herself. | NPR | 00:48:42 |
| Visually Impaired Artists | Filmmaker Rodney Evans is still making movies, despite having lost much of his vision. His new documentary, VISION PORTRAITS. | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen | He has spent decades documenting the Arctic, Antarctic and the effects of climate change. He talks about some of the dangerous situations he's been in. | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| Comic Wanda Sykes | Sykes talks about coming out publicly at an LGBTQ rally, her double mastectomy, and her career before comedy; working for the NSA. | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Tech Company Spying | Geoffrey Fowler tells how browsers, phone apps, & smart speakers track users, even when they're asleep. | NPR | 00:48:26 |
| Crime Novelist Laura Lippman | Lippman talks about her experience as a reporter, deciding to become a mother in her 50s, and losing her friend Rob Hiaasen... | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| Why We Need Insects | Biologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson warns that the world's insect population is on the decline — which may have serious consequences... | NPR | 00:49:18 |
| Ranky Tanky | Gullah band Ranky Tanky and their album GOOD TIME. Justin Chang reviews Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. | NPR | 00:46:57 |
| Jane Mayer On Al Franken | She recently dove into the accusations of sexual misconduct that forced Franken to resign in 2017. She says the chief accuser's story is full of holes. | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Lulu Wang's film THE FAREWELL | When her grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer the family flew to China to see her, but decided not to tell her the prognosis. | NPR | 00:48:55 |
| Sleep Disorders & The Nocturnal Brain | Guy Leschziner, author of THE NOCTURNAL BRAIN, says sleep is not a binary state, and the brain can be in multiple stages of sleep at once. | NPR | 00:48:56 |
| Breakthroughs In Heart Health | Dr. Haider Warraich on advancements in treating and preventing heart failure, and explains how the understanding of healthy blood pressure... | NPR | 00:48:35 |
| Moon Landing 50th Anniversary | We listen to archival interviews with Michael Collins, Alan Shepard, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield; and test pilot Chuck Yeager. | NPR | 00:49:18 |
| The Border Protection Agency | It built its ranks by recruiting Rambo, when actually what the border patrol needs is Mother Teresa. Justin Chang reviews THE LION KING. | NPR | 00:49:09 |
| Satirist Randy Rainbow | He writes and performs satirical songs about President Trump set to melodies of show tunes. "I always considered song parody kind of cheap..." | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| Novelist Colson Whitehead | His book, THE NICKEL BOYS, is based on the true story of a notorious Florida reform school where many boys were beaten and sexually abused. | NPR | 00:49:31 |
| TV Critic Emily Nussbaum | Emily talks about the art of "terrible men" in the #MeToo era, TV's revolution (from low to high brow), and "the bad fan." | NPR | 00:48:10 |
| Remembering Pitcher Jim Bouton | MLB pitcher Jim Bouton, who died Wednesday, spoke to Fresh Air in 1986 about his 1970 tell-all memoir, BALL FOUR.... | NPR | 00:48:58 |
| U.S. - Mexico Border Crisis | Caitlin Dickerson talks about the squalid conditions at the Clint, Texas, border patrol center, where toddlers were living for weeks... | NPR | 00:49:04 |
| Yiddish 'Fiddler On The Roof' | A Yiddish version is currently off-Broadway. Steven Skybell, who plays Tevye, and Joel Grey, director, explain why it still resonates. | NPR | 00:48:08 |
| Gerrymandering, Census & Voter Suppression | Ari Berman says recent Supreme Court decisions on redistricting and the 2020 census will determine which party wins in the next decade. | NPR | 00:49:10 |
| Bioethicist vs. Opioids | Travis Rieder became opioid dependent after an accident that crushed his foot. His book IN PAIN draws on his insights as a patient... | NPR | 00:48:59 |
| Willie Nelson | At 86, he's is still going strong - touring and has a new record, RIDE ME BACK HOME. We'll listen back to two interviews with him. | NPR | 00:52:25 |
| Lizzo | Lizzo talks about collaborating with Prince, feminism, and using music to help people find a positive place within themselves. | NPR | 00:49:32 |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | She's best-known for her role as the iconic single New Yorker Carrie Bradshaw on SEX AND THE CITY. She speaks of growing up poor... | NPR | 00:48:55 |
| The Story Of Chernobyl | Journalist Adam Higginbotham has spent years investigating the causes of the accident and the dramatic efforts to contain the damage. | NPR | 00:48:54 |
| The Toll On Facebook Moderators | They determine what material can be posted to Facebook. Many are traumatized by the images of hate and violence they see. | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Novelist John Green On OCD | His latest novel, TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, is about a teenage girl with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| Female Crew Sails Round The World | Tracy Edwards set out on what was thought of as an unthinkable journey for a woman; to sail the 33,000 mile Whitbread Round The World Race. | NPR | 00:49:19 |
| The First AIDS Ward | The new documentary 5B tells the story of America's first hospital unit for people with AIDS. We interview two of its founders. | NPR | 00:49:38 |
| Comic Ramy Youssef | In the semi-autobio Hulu series RAMY, he plays a Muslim American who follows some, but not all, of the rules of his religion. | NPR | 00:47:50 |
| Jehovah's Witness Leaves | Amber Scorah was a third generation Jehovah's Witness. As a teenager she was shunned for having sex with her boyfriend... | NPR | 00:48:58 |
| John Prine | Prine was recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. David Bianculli reviews FX's LEGION & Netflix's JESSICA JONES. | NPR | 00:46:33 |
| Bill Hader On BARRY | He talks with Terry Gross about writing BARRY with Alec Berg, struggling with anxiety while on SNL, and his love of old movies. | NPR | 00:47:19 |
| When They See Us | Ava DuVernay's Netflix series tells the story of how five black and brown boys were manipulated into confessing to a brutal rape. | NPR | 00:46:48 |
| America's First Black Sports Hero | Major Taylor broke barriers by becoming our fastest cyclist. Michael Kranish tells his story in the book, THE WORLD'S FASTEST MAN. | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| Rethinking Elderhood | Geriatrician Dr. Louise Aronson treats patients who are in their 60s as well as those who are older than 100. Saxophonist Stan Getz. | NPR | 00:48:30 |
| I Wrote This Book Because I Love You | Tim Kreider admits that the longest relationship of his adult life was with the stray cat that became his companion for 19 years. | NPR | 00:48:47 |
| Hacker Threat To Cities | Cybersecurity expert Nicole Perlroth says hacking tools developed by the NSA were stolen, posted online and are now being used... | NPR | 00:48:58 |
| Ordinary People Got Us To The Moon | This summer marks 50 years since the first Apollo moon landing. Journalist Charles Fishman's new book ONE GIANT LEAP focuses it. | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| Inside Kim's North Korea | Anna Fifield visited North Korea and interviewed many of its citizens including members of Kim Jong Un's family for her new book about the country. | NPR | 00:48:48 |
| Actor Damian Lewis | The classically-trained British actor plays a ruthless hedge-fund manager on Showtime's BILLIONS, which recently ended its fourth season. | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| Remembering Dr. John | He died yesterday at 77. He was known for his raspy voice and hits such as RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME and SUCH A NIGHT. | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| Trump & The Emirates | We talk with David Kirkpatrick about how Prince Mohammed bin Zayed became one of the most influential foreign voices in Washington. | NPR | 00:47:38 |
| Actor Christina Applegate | She speaks about her own experience with grief and loss, her double mastectomy, MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, and SWEET CHARITY on Broadway. | NPR | 00:48:57 |
| The Case Against R. Kelly | Pop music critic Jim DeRogatis on R. Kelly's alleged sexual abuse of underage girls. His new book SOULLESS. | NPR | 00:48:36 |
| The Future Of Food | Environmental journalist Amanda Little talks about efforts to create a global food supply for a world that will be hotter, drier... | NPR | 00:47:50 |
| A Return To DEADWOOD | The HBO series about a lawless mining town in 19th century South Dakota is the basis of a new film. David Bianculli shares his review. | NPR | 00:49:15 |
| SCOTUS And Abortion | Adam Liptak talks on how Trump's appointees might change the Supreme Court - including its direction on abortion... | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| Sara Berman's Closet | Sara's daughter, children's book author Maira Kalman and grandson, designer Alex Kalman, tell her story in a new book accompaniment... | NPR | 00:48:15 |
| College Mental Health | Dr. Anthony Rostain notes college students experience inordinate anxiety - much centered on surviving college and doing well. | NPR | 00:46:53 |
| Sir Elton John | The new biographical musical film ROCKETMAN is based on his life story. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2013 about his fear of... | NPR | 00:49:54 |
| Michael Pollan On Psychedelics | He discusses the history of psychedelic drugs, including LSD and magic mushrooms, and explains how they're currently being used... | NPR | 00:48:55 |
| Lizzo | The flute-playing pop star celebrates self-love on her latest album, CUZ I LOVE YOU. She talks about collaborating with Prince, feminism... | NPR | 00:49:15 |
| Power Struggle Within The NRA | Danny Hakim on conflicts in NRA's leadership, its lawsuit against its advertising & PR company, & what leaked documents reveal... | NPR | 00:48:17 |
| New Approach To Dementia | While caring for her mother, who had dementia, bioethicist Tia Powell began imagining a different way to approach the disease. | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| John Waters On Being A Filth Elder | The cult filmmaker has plenty of ideas about what older people should and shouldn't do. "You can't be trying too hard to rebel..." | NPR | 00:49:18 |
| Exploring Sexuality & Relationships | Stephen McCauley's novel, MY EX-LIFE, is a comedy about a couple whose marriage ended years ago when the husband came out as gay. | NPR | 00:48:56 |
| Dark Side Of Generic Drugs | Katherine Eban says most generic meds sold in the U.S. is manufactured overseas; sometimes with questionable quality control. | NPR | 00:49:12 |
| Howard Stern: Part 2 | Stern talks about his 2017 cancer scare, his thoughts on retirement, and his mother's depression. Also, we remember Doris Day. | NPR | 00:49:07 |
| Howard Stern: Part 1 | The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" speaks with Terry Gross for the first time. How therapy changed his show, what makes him cringe... | NPR | 00:49:31 |
| Phoebe Waller-Bridge | She writes female characters who are flawed, reckless, unpredictable and real - women not typically seen onscreen... | NPR | 00:48:18 |
| Celebrating HBO's VEEP | We listen to archival interviews with showrunner David Mandel, star Julia Louis-Dreyfus and co-star Tony Hale. | NPR | 00:48:59 |
| Deutsche Bank & Donald Trump | The bank was Trump's partner on countless investments when most of Wall Street shied away. It has a trove of information about him. | NPR | 00:48:33 |
| The Immigration Act of 1924 | Daniel Okrent says the eugenics movement informed the Act, which restricted entrance to the U.S. of Jews, Italians, Greeks and other... | NPR | 00:48:10 |
| Shedding Light On Domestic Violence | Crisis center CEO Suzanne Dubus and journalist Rachel Louise Snyder talk about identifying risk factors in abusive relationships... | NPR | 00:47:51 |
| The Awkwardness Of Middle School | In Hulu's PEN15, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves in the year 2000 - even though they're in their early 30s.? | NPR | 00:48:39 |
| Remembering John Singleton | Film director John Singleton died Monday at the age of 51. He debuted in 1991 with the semi-autobiographical movie BOYZ N THE HOOD. | NPR | 00:47:50 |
| Bolton's Aggressive Use Of U.S. Power | Dexter Filkins says Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton's world view often contrasts with Trump's isolationist tendencies... | NPR | 00:49:37 |
| How Crooks Stash Fortunes | Journalist Oliver Bullough's book MONEYLAND describes foreign leaders' & oligarchs' secretive transnational world. | NPR | 00:48:07 |
| Erin Lee Carr, Daughter Of David Carr | The writer and documentary filmmaker talks of her parents' drug addiction and what it was like to have her father as a mentor... | NPR | 00:48:48 |
| Actor Patricia Arquette | She's won awards for her performances in ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA, BOYHOOD & MEDIUM. She currently stars in THE ACT... | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| The Zombies & Roxy Music | The 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees include the Zombies and Roxy Music. We listen back to archival interviews with them... | NPR | 00:49:27 |
| Mueller Report Revelations & Redactions | Rosalind Helderman notes what's new in the report, the questions left unanswered, and how encrypted texts and witnesses stymied... | NPR | 00:47:36 |
| How Psychiatry Used Drugs For Mental Illness | The new book MIND FIXERS examines psychiatry's search for understanding of mental illnesses, like depression and bipolar disorder. | NPR | 00:48:21 |
| Glenda Jackson Is King Lear | The 82-year-old British actor is currently playing Shakespeare's famed tragic figure on Broadway; a role traditionally played by a man. | NPR | 00:47:57 |
| How The Navy Failed Its Sailors | Outdated equipment and crew shortages contributed to two collisions involving Navy destroyers in 2017 - 17 sailors were killed. | NPR | 00:47:26 |
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