Fresh Air
Go To: PodCast Table Subscribe
AIRSLA is pleased to link you to Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. It's one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, it features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean Smart / Remembering George Wein | Jean Smart is nominated for two Emmys - We revisit her May 2021 interview. George Wein created the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and spoke with Terry in 2003 | NPR | 00:46:17 |
| Battle To Keep Local Journalism Alive | In 15 years, one in four U.S. newspapers has closed. We talk with Art Cullen about the challenges as news moves to free digital platforms... | NPR | 00:45:04 |
| Colson Whitehead On His Crime Novel | HARLEM SHUFFLE is about a furniture store owner in Harlem whose sideline is fencing stolen goods. Whitehead has won two Pulitzer Prizes... | NPR | 00:45:60 |
| The Weird World Of Animal Crimes | Science writer Mary Roach ('Stiff', 'Gulp') explores scenarios where animals are the ones committing "crimes" - and how society deals with it. | NPR | 00:46:35 |
| Banjo Player Béla Fleck | Perhaps the most famous banjo player in the world, he's taken that instrument out of its folk and bluegrass traditions to play pretty much any kind of music... | NPR | 00:48:26 |
| Rise And Fall Of Osama Bin Laden | A new biography traces bin Laden's path from a shy, religious teenager to the leader of a global jihadist group dedicated to mass murder... | NPR | 00:46:06 |
| SCOTUS & The Future Of Roe V. Wade | Ian Millhiser says the Court's decision to uphold Texas' abortion law was a victory for abortion opponents. Maureen Corrigan reviews Sally Rooney's new novel | NPR | 00:47:04 |
| Remembering Michael K. Williams | He was best known for roles in THE WIRE and BOARDWALK EMPIRE and died Sept. 6 of a suspected drug overdose. David Bianculli reviews the reboot of Doogie Howser | NPR | 00:47:04 |
| Poet Laureate Joy Harjo / Historian Tiya Miles | Joy has a memoir in which she tells her own story and one of the Trail of Tears. Tiya tells the story of an enslaved woman whose child was sold off... | NPR | 00:47:42 |
| Mavis Staples / Gladys Knight | Mavis performed with her family in the Staple Singers, led by her father, "Pops" Staples. One of Gladys's biggest hits: "Midnight Train to Georgia." | NPR | 00:48:33 |
| Abbey Lincoln / Max Roach | Wee continue Summer of Soul with archival interviews of singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach. Both were featured in the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival | NPR | 00:53:50 |
| B.B. King / Hugh Masekela | We're revisiting archival interviews with some of the musicians featured in the documentary 'Summer of Soul,' about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival... | NPR | 00:47:16 |
| "Black Woodstock" With 'Summer Of Soul' | We begin our series 'Summer of Soul', with archived interviews of performers in the documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival | NPR | 00:45:29 |
| Aretha Franklin, Queen Of Soul | For the debut of the biopic RESPECT, we listen to archival interviews with Aretha, Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler, and songwriter Dan Penn... | NPR | 00:47:24 |
| Sandra Oh | She's English department chair at a university in the Netflix series THE CHAIR. She talks growing up in Canada, breaking barriers for Asian women in Hollywood, and... | NPR | 00:46:11 |
| Chuck Close, Joe Galloway, Charlie Watts | We remember an artist, a journalist and a musician, each of whom made significant contributions to their respective fields... | NPR | 00:47:09 |
| The Taliban & Afghan Women | Clarissa Ward spent 3 weeks in Afghanistan in territory taken over by the Taliban. We'll talk about what she learned and what she experienced. | NPR | 00:46:34 |
| Neuroscience Of Pleasure, Pain And Addiction | Anna Lembke's book, DOPAMINE NATION, explores the brain's connection between pleasure and pain. It also helps explain addictions - of all kinds... | NPR | 00:46:31 |
| Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher | He was arrested and accused of some shocking crimes. We talk with correspondent Dave Philipps, who covered Gallagher's trial and interviewed many witnesses | NPR | 00:46:48 |
| Schmigadoon! Songwriter Cinco Paul | He loves musicals; unlike his long-time writing partner, Ken Daurio, with whom he created Schmigadoon! Plus: Justin Chang reviews CODA | NPR | 00:45:56 |
| Tony Bennett | The singer Frank Sinatra called "the best in the business," is retiring at the age of 95. He has performed despite having Alzheimer's disease... | NPR | 00:48:11 |
| Our Failed Afghanistan Mission | The collapse of the Afghanistan government following Biden's decision to remove troop led to chaos. It has also left Afghans wondering what the future holds... | NPR | 00:46:32 |
| Who Is Doing Your Dirty Work? | Eyal Press calls them "jobs of last resort" - slaughtering animals, working in prisons, engaging in remote drone combat - society needs them... | NPR | 00:51:25 |
| Tennis Legend Billie Jean King | She's known for winning 20 Wimbledon titles and defeating Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes." David Bianculli reviews a film about Broadway | NPR | 00:45:06 |
| America's Colleges: Always Unequal | Adam Harris explains how slavery, segregation and continuing racism prevented or stymied Black education and the important role Black Colleges have played | NPR | 00:46:47 |
| Remembering NPR Host Neal Conan | Conan, who died Aug. 10, worked at NPR for 36 years, as a reporter, executive producer of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED and host of TALK OF THE NATION... | NPR | 00:48:26 |
| Election Result Subversion | Katie Benner discusses the latest revelations about how former President Trump pressured the Justice Department to undermine results of the 2020 election | NPR | 00:47:31 |
| Kenan Thompson On SNL And KENAN | Thompson is currently nominated for two Emmys. He talks about some of his most memorable SNL sketches and playing the Bill Cosby character Fat Albert... | NPR | 00:46:44 |
| Trump Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman | The retired Army officer who testified about President Trump's call to the president of Ukraine, talks about the experience and the price he paid. | NPR | 00:47:19 |
| Cecily Strong On 'SNL,' 'Schmigadoon,' And Her New Memoir | She's Emmy nominated for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and stars in the new show SCHMIGADOON, about a couple that ends up trapped in a town where life is... | NPR | 00:45:04 |
| The Hiroshima Cover-Up | 76 years ago, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Historian Lesley M.M. Blume's book, FALLOUT, tells the story... | NPR | 00:47:07 |
| The 'Dark Money' Effort To Win Elections | Jane Mayer's latest investigation is about powerful conservative groups exploiting Trump's claims of election fraud in order to alter voting... | NPR | 00:46:13 |
| Osama Bin Laden's Hideout | A new biography traces bin Laden's path from a shy, religious teenager to the leader of a global jihadist group dedicated to mass murder... | NPR | 00:46:40 |
| Working With Sondheim | James Lapine collaborated with Sondheim on 3 musicals. "We're very, very different," he says. He's written a new book called PUTTING IT TOGETHER | NPR | 00:44:29 |
| Pulitzer Prize-Winner Katori Hall | Hall is the writer and a producer of TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL "Any time I get an opportunity to lay my hands on a Black woman's story... | NPR | 00:47:05 |
| Actor Courtney B. Vance | Vance is nominated for an Emmy for his guest appearance in the HBO series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY. Then, we remember civil rights activist Bob Moses | NPR | 00:47:39 |
| Spyware Leaks | Craig Timberg explains how military-grade spyware licensed to governments and police departments has infiltrated the iPhones of journalists... | NPR | 00:45:57 |
| MOONLIGHT Writer Tarell Alvin McCraney | After winning an Oscar he received a lot of opportunities, many of which he turned down. He's now creator of the TV series DAVID MAKES MAN | NPR | 00:46:13 |
| Dr. Leana Wen On COVID & Mandates | She's an emergency physician. We talk of mask and vaccine mandates, the return to school and work, and the Delta variant. Her memoir is LIFELINES. | NPR | 00:46:49 |
| Jad Abumrad | Creator of RadioLab, which started as a series on science-related mysteries, but now investigates all kinds of stories... | NPR | 00:45:46 |
| Hugh Grant On THE UNDOING | He's been nominated for an Emmy for his role in the HBO miniseries, in which he played an adulterous doctor suspected of murder... | NPR | 00:47:51 |
| GOP State Legislatures Remake U.S. | Ron Brownstein says Republican state legislatures are taking a right turn, in a conscious backlash against Democratic control of Congress... | NPR | 00:45:60 |
| Questlove On 'Summer of Soul' | He's exiting the pandemic a changed man. The co-founder of the Roots and music director of The Tonight Show did something he never thought he'd do... | NPR | 00:47:08 |
| Jeffrey Epstein Investigation | Long after he got a lenient sentence for sexual abuse, reporter Julie K. Brown identified 80 women who said they survived his abuse... | NPR | 00:47:17 |
| Growing Up In A Utopian Community | Akash Kapur hass seen the idealism of people trying to remake human society and renounce materialism. He writes of reality of utopian communities... | NPR | 00:46:12 |
| Anthony Bourdain, 'Roadrunner' | We revisit our 2016 interview with the culinary icon who died in 2018 by suicide while filming in France. ROADRUNNER, a new documentary about him... | NPR | 00:46:57 |
| Our Renewable Energy Future | New York Times' Ivan Penn unpacks the debate over infrastructure: Do we fund huge wind and solar farms with new transmission lines, or... | NPR | 00:46:51 |
| MLB Pitcher C.C. Sabathia | The six-time All Star also struggled with alcoholism. He reflects on baseball and sobriety in the memoir, TILL THE END. | NPR | 00:46:44 |
| The 'Ugly Truth' About Facebook | Disinformation, hate speech, and how Mark Zuckerberg knew "Stop the Steal" groups were planning a riot but didn't warn the president | NPR | 00:46:15 |
| 'Startup Wife' Author | Tahmima Anam's novel is about a married couple who found a tech startup. We talk with her about how her real life boardroom experience... | NPR | 00:46:57 |
| Mindy Kaling On NEVER HAVE I EVER | Her show is based on her own experiences as a nerdy, confident teen who pined for a boyfriend. The second season drops next week... | NPR | 00:47:04 |
| Freeing An Innocent Man | After serving 7 years for armed robbery, Yutico Briley heard Emily Bazelon on Fresh Air and wrote her about his case. She got him an appeal. | NPR | 00:46:58 |
| Sex & Censorship In The Gilded Age | The Comstock Act of 1873, virtually outlawed contraception. In 'The Man Who Hated Women,' Amy Sohn writes about the man behind the law. | NPR | 00:46:50 |
| Stories From The Sky | T.J. Newman's new book, FALLING, is a thriller about a hijacking on a commercial flight. We talk with her about her book and 10 years in the skies | NPR | 00:47:17 |
| Bandleader Jon Batiste | The bandleader of 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' joins us from his home piano where he plays music he wrote for the Pixar movie 'Soul' and... | NPR | 00:47:39 |
| Bruce Springsteen Returns To Broadway | "The Boss" spoke with Terry Gross at his New Jersey home studio in 2016 about masculinity, depression, and wishing he was his stage persona | NPR | 00:48:46 |
| Spy Trains Conservatives | Adam Goldman describes an effort, led by a Trump supporter, that trained conservatives in espionage techniques and sent them to spy on progressives | NPR | 00:45:16 |
| Global Sanitation & Transforming The Toilet | The United Nations estimates that 4.2 billion people - more than half of the world's population - live without any access to safely managed sanitation | NPR | 00:46:44 |
| Watergate, Tapes & Fall Of Nixon's White House | Historian and author Michael Dobbs reconstructs how the scandal gradually engulfed more administration officials, with operatives turning on each other | NPR | 00:46:09 |
| Uzo Aduba | Aduba's breakout role was as "Crazy Eyes" in 'Orange is the New Black.' Now she stars in the HBO reboot of 'In Treatment.' | NPR | 00:45:43 |
| The Early Years Of The CIA | In his book, Scott Anderson profiles four daring and resourceful soldiers who became intelligence agents after World War II... | NPR | 00:46:53 |
| Battle Over Critical Race Theory | An NBC News analysis finds at least 165 local and national groups are trying to disrupt or block lessons on critical race theory... | NPR | 00:45:48 |
| Megan Rapinoe | The soccer star and activist spoke with Terry Gross about her World Cup wins, being openly gay, and solidarity with Black Lives Matter | NPR | 00:46:47 |
| Renee Elise Goldsberry On 'Girls5Eva' | The comedy series was just renewed for season 2. It follows a 1990s band that reunites after a long stretch of obscurity... | NPR | 00:46:60 |
| Desus & Mero | Desus Nice and The Kid Mero started out doing comedy together on Twitter, then created the 'Bodega Boys' podcast. They're in their third season | NPR | 00:46:29 |
| 50th Anniversary Of The Pentagon Papers | We listen back to archival interviews with Ellsberg and Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post, who ran their own series on the documents. | NPR | 00:47:38 |
| Questions About COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory | Biden asked experts to investigate the theory that Covid came from a lab in Yuhan, but Katherine Eban says there have been many roadblocks | NPR | 00:45:43 |
| Challenging The Myths Of The Alamo | In a new book, Bryan Burrough challenges the historical lore of the Alamo; including the story that Davy Crockett refused to surrender... | NPR | 00:46:18 |
| Ashley Ford On Her Memoir 'Somebody's Daughter' | For most of her life, her father was incarcerated for rape. This was especially traumatizing for Ford, as she herself is a survivor of sexual assault | NPR | 00:47:36 |
| Anthony Ramos: 'In The Heights' & 'Hamilton' | Anthony Ramos says Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical 'In the Heights' filled him with hope about a life on the stage... | NPR | 00:46:27 |
| Catching Up With Stephen Colbert | He begins taping the The Late Show in front of a live audience again on Monday. We hear his interview with Terry about doing the show from home... | NPR | 00:47:47 |
| Inside The Ransomware Industry | Michael Schwirtz gained access to the dashboard of DarkSide, a ransomware operation that's pulled in more than $90 million since it began last August | NPR | 00:46:06 |
| The Space Race & Dangerous Early Days Of NASA | In Cape Canaveral on the morning of Feb. 20, 1962 there was real fear that astronaut John Glenn wouldn't survive the day... | NPR | 00:47:06 |
| Race, Sexuality & The Deadly 'Kissing Bug' | When Daisy Hernandez was 5, her aunt had a mysterious illness that caused her large intestine to swell. Hernandez details her aunt's story | NPR | 00:45:25 |
| Rita Moreno | She says her 'West Side Story' role is "the only part I ever remember where I represented Hispanics in a dignified and positive way." | NPR | 00:45:45 |
| Producing The Philly Sound | Thom Bell has arranged records by Joe Simons and The O'Jays; and wrote and arranged for The Stylistics, The Spinners, and The Delfonics... | NPR | 00:47:21 |
| Russia's Election Attack On Biden | Simon Shuster says Ukranian Andriy Derkach gave misleading information to Rudy Giuliani to discredit Biden during the 2020 campaign. | NPR | 00:46:41 |
| Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment | Carol Anderson says the Second Amendment was designed to ensure slave owners could crush any resistance from those they'd enslaved... | NPR | 00:45:34 |
| The History Of Slavery | In HOW THE WORD IS PASSED, writer and poet Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America... | NPR | 00:46:16 |
| 50 Years Of Philadelphia International Records | They recorded The O'Jays, Patti LaBelle, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, Billy Paul, McFadden and Whitehead, and more... | NPR | 00:48:39 |
| Two Concerts | The music duo Rachael & Vilray perform songs from their debut album. We'll also hear from Loudon Wainwright III and Vince Giordano. | NPR | 00:46:44 |
| How States Make It Harder To Vote | Nick Corasaniti says Republican state legislatures are restricting voting and seizing power in running elections... | NPR | 00:46:43 |
| Exonerated Five Member Yusef Salaam | One of five boys wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case, he spent nearly 7 years behind bars and was exonerated in 2002 | NPR | 00:46:38 |
| The History Of Juneteenth | Formerly Emancipation Day or Jubilee, it celebrates the end of slavery in Texas. Annette Gordon-Reed studies the legacy of slavery... | NPR | 00:44:48 |
| OPAL & NEV Author Dawnie Walton | His novel is a faux oral history about a '70s interracial rock duo. He was inspired by Grace Jones, Betty Davis, Elton John and Bowie... | NPR | 00:46:38 |
| Remembering Charles Grodin | Grodin, of MIDNIGHT RUN and HEARTBREAK KID fame, died May 18. He was known for deadpan humor and making unpleasant characters likable | NPR | 00:46:04 |
| Inside India's COVID Crisis | Jeffrey Gettleman says the air in New Delhi has been filled with smoke from crematories and the health care system is collapsing... | NPR | 00:45:56 |
| Actor John Boyega | He played Finn in the STAR WARS sequel trilogy and won a Golden Globe for his leading role in the anthology series SMALL AXE... | NPR | 00:47:49 |
| Seth Rogen | He returns to talk of his memoir, YEARBOOK, filled with funny and surprising stories, starting with the first time he did stand-up | NPR | 00:46:39 |
| Failure In The Secret Service | Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig's new book, ZERO FAIL, examines how the Secret Service is underfunded, overworked, and ... | NPR | 00:47:21 |
| Tom Jones | Jones, who became a pop star and sex symbol in the 1960s has a new album. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2003... | NPR | 00:47:46 |
| The Mysteries Of Endometriosis | About one in 10 women experience endometriosis during their reproductive years. Many who have the disorder struggle to be properly diagnosed | NPR | 00:46:27 |
| Actor Jean Smart | Her breakout role was on the '80s sitcom DESIGNING WOMEN. Now she stars in the HBO's MARE OF EASTTOWN and HACKS... | NPR | 00:47:42 |
| Writer Francisco Goldman | He grew up mostly in working class suburbs of Boston. His novel, MONKEY BOY, draws on his own experiences, including physical abuse by his dad | NPR | 00:47:11 |
| Barry Jenkins On THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | He says filming his series about an enslaved girl who escapes from a plantation was the toughest project of his career; it made him feel closer... | NPR | 00:46:59 |
| Celebrating Mothers | We celebrate Mother's Day with stories of mom from past interviews with Daily Show's Trevor Noah, Martin Scorsese and Albert Brooks | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| How Systemic Racism Determines Black Health | There's a 30-year gap in life expectancy of some Black and white Chicagoans. Linda Villarosa talks about the link between racism and health... | NPR | 00:48:20 |
| Secret To Superhuman Strength | Alison Bechdel's memoir is about her lifelong obsession with exercise. She says she has a predisposition of being extremely self-conscious... | NPR | 00:45:17 |
| The Social Lives Of Trees | Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways... | NPR | 00:47:31 |
| Former Pregnant Girl Helps Teen Moms Succeed | In her new memoir, PREGNANT GIRL, Nicole Lynn Lewis recalls feeling overwhelmed and isolated as a young mom in college... | NPR | 00:46:23 |
| Remembering Astronaut Michael Collins | While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic walk on the moon, Collins orbited above in the Apollo 11 command capsule... | NPR | 00:47:37 |
| Novelist Imbolo Mbue | Set in a fictional African village in the 1980s, Mbue's latest novel, HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE, is a David and Goliath tale... | NPR | 00:47:04 |
| Susan Stamberg & Bill Siemering | NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED debuted in 1971. Creator Bill Siemering and former co-host Susan Stamberg look back on the early years | NPR | 00:48:37 |
| Catching Up with Stephen Colbert | He tapes his show without a studio audience during Covid but he's not always alone. Sometimes his wife Evie is there. If she laughs... | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| Processed Food Companies Hook Us On Junk | Journalist Michael Moss says processed foods can be as addictive as cocaine, heroin and cigarettes. Ken Tucker reviews Carsie Blanton's album | NPR | 00:47:13 |
| Pete Docter & Kemp Powers | Their Oscar-nominated animated film SOUL imagines a place where souls are matched with unique passions... | NPR | 00:46:30 |
| Reducing Harm In Policing | Yale professor Phillip Atiba Goff co-founded the Center for Policing Equity, which collects data on police behavior from 18,000 agencies... | NPR | 00:48:21 |
| Courtney B. Vance | We talk about his origin story and his recent roles as Aretha Franklin's father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, and as attorney Johnnie Cochran... | NPR | 00:47:16 |
| Growing Up In A Cult | Lauren Hough was 15 when her family left the Children of God cult. Her collection of personal essays is LEAVING ISN'T THE HARDEST THING | NPR | 00:48:01 |
| How To Be An Adult | Julie Lythcott-Haims' new book is a handbook on adulthood, offering insights and strategies on education and career choices, building friendships... | NPR | 00:49:14 |
| Native Peoples' Long Fight For Survival | Louise Erdrich's novel, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, was inspired by her granddad, who fought Congress for moving indigenous people off their land... | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| On The Fight For Black Lives | Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. lost a friend to police violence. His podcast, RESISTANCE, explores different aspects of the movement for Black lives | NPR | 00:45:53 |
| Secret History Of The Sackler Family | They own Purdue Pharma, and made billions selling OxyContin, an opiate painkiller stronger than morphine. They face more than 2,500 lawsuits | NPR | 00:47:05 |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. On The Black Church | FINDING YOUR ROOTS host has a new book and PBS series called THE BLACK CHURCH. Maureen Corrigan reviews THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL AND NEV. | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| Leslie Odom Jr. | He is best-known for his role as Aaron Burr in 'Hamilton.' Now he stars as Sam Cooke in Regina King's film 'One Night in Miami.' | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Prolific Background Singer Merry Clayton | She did background vocals of the Rolling Stones' GIMME SHELTER but was anonymous until featured as backup singer in 20 FEET FROM STARDOM | NPR | 00:48:23 |
| Choreographer Twyla Tharp | TWYLA MOVES, a documentary by PBS American Masters, tells of the legendary choreographer and dancer who started out busking in the 60s... | NPR | 00:48:30 |
| Cookbook Author Reem Kassis | She began gathering family recipes after the birth of her first child. The recipes, "could be the story of any and every Palestinian family." | NPR | 00:48:26 |
| Black Performance, Joy & Pain | Hanif Abdurraqib's book, A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA, traces the history of Black performance ... emphasizing the joy and excellence. | NPR | 00:49:33 |
| Brandi Carlile | The six-time Grammy winner got her start onstage as a kid, singing backup for an Elvis impersonator. Her new memoir, BROKEN HORSES... | NPR | 00:48:46 |
| Remembering Larry McMurtry | Raised on a Texas ranch, McMurtry wrote about the West in the Pulitzer-winning novel LONESOME DOVE, which was later made into a miniseries | NPR | 00:48:58 |
| Tackling Child Poverty Through COVID Relief | Jason DeParle says a provision in the new COVID relief package has the makings of a policy revolution and would roughly cut child poverty in half | NPR | 00:46:07 |
| Amazon's 'One-Click America' | Alec MacGillis says a union vote by Amazon workers could determine what life will look like for workers in America in years to come... | NPR | 00:47:41 |
| LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Creator Misha Green | The series takes the real horrors of the Black experience in the 1950s and adds to it the supernatural terrors of the horror genre... | NPR | 00:47:55 |
| Amazing Lives Of Migratory Birds | Scott Weidensaul talks of the millions of birds flying unseen over our heads in the night sky, how the bar-tailed godwit can fly more than a week... | NPR | 00:46:46 |
| Actors Riz Ahmed & Kathryn Hahn | Riz plays a drummer who loses his hearing in SOUND OF METAL. Kathryn co-starin in WANDAVISION as a nosey and mysterious neighbor. | NPR | 00:48:21 |
| Threat Of Domestic Terrorism | Elizabeth Neumann says the Trump administration ignored the threat — and fanned the flames — of violent domestic extremism... | NPR | 00:47:53 |
| The Afterlife Of Mass Incarceration | Sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller researches how targeting people with criminal records affects their lives in HALFWAY HOME. | NPR | 00:46:08 |
| The Making Of Pixar's SOUL | The Oscar-nominated film imagines a place where souls are matched with unique passions. Maureen Corrigan reviews THE LIFE OF THE MIND | NPR | 00:40:02 |
| Correcting Lady Bird Johnson's Record | She's remembered as a genteel Southerner, but author Julia Sweig says archival records show she was a savvy political strategist | NPR | 00:48:54 |
| Country Icon Loretta Lynn | The country music star's 50th studio album, STILL WOMAN ENOUGH, is out. Her 2010 interview on her memoir COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER | NPR | 00:48:08 |
| Trump Criminal Charges? | Jane Mayer talks of Trump's guilt of tax, banking and/or insurance fraud. If convicted, he could be sentenced to prison... | NPR | 00:46:18 |
| Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro | The Nobel Prize-winning novelist's book, KLARA AND THE SUN, is set in the future and has an artificially intelligent narrator. | NPR | 00:49:10 |
| 'Futureproof' Yourself In An Automated World | Kevin Roose says we approach automation all wrong. "What we should be teaching people...to do the things machines can't do" he says | NPR | 00:46:06 |
| Rejection Of Hasidic Life | Deborah Feldman's memoir, UNORTHODOX, about leaving the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn inspired the Netflix series... | NPR | 00:47:19 |
| Rise Of White Supremacy In Wilmington, N.C. | David Zucchino tells the forgotten story of a murderous coup that led to a white supremacist takeover of a Southern city. | NPR | 00:48:28 |
| Musician Jon Batiste | He's been playing at Black Lives Matter protests, vaccination sites, and voter registration events. "We're all in this together," He says | NPR | 00:47:49 |
| Sherry Turkle On The Burden Of Family Secrets | Sherry was 27 when she learned that her estranged father conducted psychological experiments on her when she was a child... | NPR | 00:47:16 |
| Inside The Right-To-Die Movement | Katie Engelhart's book, THE INEVITABLE, follows people who plan to end their lives due to terminal illness or disabilities... | NPR | 00:48:15 |
| The Gene Editing Revolution | Jennifer Doudna, subject of Walter Isaacson's biography THE CODE BREAKER, shared a Nobel Prize for developing CRISPR technology. | NPR | 00:47:49 |
| Novelist James McBride | His novel DEACON KING KONG takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project. Justin Chang reviews Disney's RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON. | NPR | 00:47:35 |
| What's Next For The Afghanistan War? | We speak with New Yorker reporter Dexter Filkins about what he saw in Afghanistan while he was there in January. | NPR | 00:47:02 |
| Director Lee Isaac Chung | Based on his own childhood, MINARI is about a Korean American family that moves to rural Arkansas to start a farm... | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| How Bellingcat's Web Sleuths Solve Global Crimes | Eliot Higgins is the founder of an online collective that picks apart conspiracy theories and investigates war crimes and hate crimes... | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| Magician Derek DelGaudio | The sleight-of-hand master explores themes of identity, honesty and the emotional cost of keeping secrets in the memoir, AMORALMAN | NPR | 00:47:42 |
| Legacies Of Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X | The movie ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, directed by Regina King, imagines the conversations between four Black icons in 1964... | NPR | 00:47:18 |
| Capitol Insurrection Video | Journalist Luke Mogelson followed a mob of MAGA supporters into the Capitol and filmed evidence for Trump's impeachment... | NPR | 00:47:18 |
| Fatherhood & The Burden Of Vietnam | When Tim O'Brien became a father, he feared parenthood would curtail his writing. Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE. | NPR | 00:47:54 |
| The Ten Year War Over Obamacare | In his book, Jonathan Cohn examines the debate about the ACA, the compromises of the law itself, and how i's been functioning during the pandemic | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| Sacha Baron Cohen | A scary experience at a gun rights rally while filming BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM has led Cohen to stop his undercover comedy style | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| "Black Radical" William Monroe Trotter | Kerri Greenidge tells the story of the Black newspaper editor who was a forceful crusader for civil rights in the early 20th century... | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| How The Pandemic Hurts Working Moms | Claire Cain Miller says working mothers have reduced hours or left the workforce due to the pandemic. It could have lasting effects... | NPR | 00:47:19 |
| What Racism Costs Everyone | Heather McGhee uses economic data to show discriminatory laws and practices targeting Blacks also negatively impact society at large | NPR | 00:47:36 |
| Police Reform From The Inside | Rosa Brooks carried a badge and gun and worked for the DC police department on a voluntary basis. TANGLED UP IN BLUE isb about her experiences | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| Spike Lee & Remembering Cloris Leachman | Sam Sanders talks with Spike Lee about DA 5 BLOODS, and about working with Chadwick Boseman. Also, we remember Cloris Leachman... | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| Remembering Mary Wilson and Christopher Plummer | Our 1986 interview of Mary Wilson on the early days of the Supremes. Also, we remember actor Christopher Plummer who died last Friday | NPR | 00:46:23 |
| Rashida Jones | Jones filmed ON THE ROCKS shortly after her son's birth and mom's death. She nearly turned down the role, and is glad she didn't. | NPR | 00:45:54 |
| Inside The Cyber Weapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth explains how the U.S. went from having the world's strongest cyber arsenal to becoming so vulnerable to cyber attack. | NPR | 00:48:42 |
| How Humans Try To Master Nature | Elizabeth Kolbert on efforts to reverse some of the harm humans have done to the natural world. Her new book, UNDER A WHITE SKY, details... | NPR | 00:48:18 |
| 'Women In Blue' Documentary | It follows four women working for the Minneapolis Police Department. We talk with director, Deirdre Fishel and one of the women profiled... | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| Biographer Vicki Wickham | British singer Dusty Springfield's friend and manager Vicki Wickham co-wrote a biography of her. Also, we remember Hal Holbrook. | NPR | 00:49:12 |
| Dr. Anthony Fauci | Less than 3 weeks into the Biden administration, the infectious disease expert is encouraged by the president's approach to the pandemic | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Biden's Economic Plan | Jim Tankersley talks of Biden's $1.9 trillion rescue plan for the economy amid the pandemic and the declining middle class... | NPR | 00:48:22 |
| Writer Russell Shorto | His grandfather was a mob leader in Johnstown, Pa. He writes about family havoc that resulted in his memoir, SMALLTIME... | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| The Folk Music Revival | Ellen Harper runs the Folk Music Center in Claremont, Calif., and her son Ben Harper is a Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter. | NPR | 00:48:46 |
| Hank Azaria On The Simpsons & Brockmire | He plays a colorful baseball announcer in the IFC comedy series BROCKMIRE. He talks of sobriety, his flamboyant characters, and... | NPR | 00:48:40 |
| What's Next For QAnon? | Craig Timberg suggests some in the QAnon movement will become even more extreme now that Trump, their 'messiah,' has left office... | NPR | 00:47:33 |
| Surveillance & Local Police: How Technology Evolves | Jon Fasman says police departments can use powerful surveillance tools, often with little oversight. Is it worth the cost to our privacy... | NPR | 00:48:37 |
| The Human Factor & Middle East Peace Negotiations | A look at negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders during the Clinton administration - before an assassin's bullet changed all | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| Exploring The Human Voice | We talk with John Colapinto, author of THIS IS THE VOICE, about voices; how they evolved in our ancestors, how babies learn... | NPR | 00:48:45 |
| How Tragedy & Resilience Made Joe Biden | Evan Osnos on Biden's long career in the Senate, how personal tragedy changed him, and some of the political missteps he made along the way | NPR | 00:49:01 |
| Busting Myths About Exercise | Daniel Lieberman's book, EXERCISED examines why we run, lift and walk for a workout, when our ancestors didn't... | NPR | 00:48:30 |
| Biden's Climate Agenda | Trump called climate change a hoax. Biden calls it an existential threat. How Biden might reverse Trump's environmental policies... | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| The Blackwell Sisters | Janice Nimura tells the story of the complicated, prickly 19th century medical trailblazers in her book THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL. | NPR | 00:48:18 |
| The FBI's Effort To Take Down MLK | Sam Pollard talks of his documentary MLK/FBI, based on declassified documents. Maureen Corrigan reviews AFTERSHOCKS by Nadia Owusu. | NPR | 00:48:02 |
| Remembering Michael Apted, William Link & Neil Sheehan | We look back on the lives and careers of three people who have recently died. A filmmaker, a screenwriter, and a war correspondent | NPR | 00:48:41 |
| Paul Greengrass On NEWS OF THE WORLD | It's a Western set five years after the Civil War and stars Tom Hanks as a former Confederate captain who reads newspapers to folks... | NPR | 00:48:20 |
| 'Black Radical' William Monroe Trotter | A Black newspaper editor and civil rights crusader in the early 20th century. Reviews of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN and PIECES OF A WOMAN | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| Racist History Of Senate Filibuster | Adam Jentleson traces the history of the filibuster, which started as a tool of Southern senators upholding slavery and then later became... | NPR | 00:47:38 |
| Humorist Fran Lebowitz | The Netflix docuseries PRETEND IT'S A CITY features conversations with Martin Scorsese on many topics, Manhattan in particular... | NPR | 00:47:36 |
| Remembering Nature Writer Barry Lopez | He wrote evocatively about nature, and shed light on truths about the human experience. Kevin Whitehead reviews Joshua Abrams' album... | NPR | 00:48:15 |
| America's Pandemic Failures | The U.S. has 4% of the world's population but 20% of all COVID deaths. Lawrence Wright discusses America's "plague year. | NPR | 00:48:03 |
| Standing Up To Philippine President | Maria Ressa has faced criminal charges and death threats because of her coverage of the populist, authoritarian Rodrigo Duterte. | NPR | 00:48:28 |
| Life In China's Surveillance State | Kai Strittmatter says China amassed a large amount of data on its citizens, which it uses to punish people even for minor offenses... | NPR | 00:47:51 |
| Dr. Sanjay Gupta On How To Keep Sharp | CNN's chief medical correspondent says it's never too late to develop new brain pathways. Even small changes can help optimize brain health | NPR | 00:47:13 |
| Making THE GODFATHER | Francis Ford Coppola recalled the making of his masterpiece, THE GODFATHER, in a 2016 interview with Terry Gross. | NPR | 00:49:52 |
| Loudon Wainwright III & Vince Giordano | We close the year with music from singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and Nighthawks bandleader Vince Giordano... | NPR | 00:50:28 |
| Remembering Broadway Star Rebecca Luker | Luker died last Wednesday of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. She was 59, had a beautiful singing voice, and received Tony nominations... | NPR | 00:49:41 |
| Stephen King / Sir. Patrick Stewart | King understands why fans say COVID-19 feels like something out of his books. Stewart is back as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a CBS series... | NPR | 00:50:29 |
| 'Queen's Gambit' Co-Creator Scott Frank | The popular Netflix series is about an orphaned girl who becomes a chess prodigy, then a chess pro in a male-dominated world... | NPR | 00:48:07 |
| Christmas Concert: Rosemary Clooney & Rebecca Kilgore | On a Christmas without its familiar comforts and pleasures we turn to two singers whose performances have been a pleasure over the years | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Pandemic Made The Rich Richer | Chuck Collins talks about how the richest Americans have profited from the pandemic, and his own relationship to generational wealth. | NPR | 00:48:22 |
| Angela Bassett | One of the stars of the new Pixar animated film SOUL, she talks to Sam Sanders about her career, and being a Black woman in movies... | NPR | 00:50:24 |
| Michael J. Fox | The FAMILY TIES star was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease in 1991. His memoir is NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE. | NPR | 00:47:18 |
| Elton John On Music, Addiction & Family | His new CD box set has rarities, demos, B-sides and fan favorites from his long career. Justin Chang reviews MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM... | NPR | 00:49:08 |
| COVID Vaccine Rollout & Research | We talk with Ed Yong about what the rollout process will be like, where COVID research fell short, and what to expect for 2021. | NPR | 00:50:06 |
| American Folk Music Curators | The Ledbetters talk of a new anthology - the flip sides of 78s Harry Smith chose for his Anthology of American Folk Music | NPR | 00:48:15 |
| MC & Actor Riz Ahmed | He plays a drummer who loses his hearing in SOUND OF METAL. To prepare for the role, he immersed in deaf culture. We discuss the film... | NPR | 00:49:24 |
| Remembering John Le Carré | John worked for MI5 and MI6 early in his career and later drew on that experience in thrillers like THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and... | NPR | 00:48:20 |
| Spiro Agnew's Bribery Scandal | Nixon's first vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned over charges of bribery and tax evasion. Rachel Maddow and Mike Yarvitz wrote a book about it | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| Unpacking The Trump Years | Maggie Haberman talks of Trump's refusal to concede. He can't handle the label "loser" and never had a problem he couldn't sue or spin away... | NPR | 00:49:34 |
| The Mass Incarceration Crisis | Lawyer Brittany Barnett works on behalf of people sentenced to harsh sentences as a result of the war on drugs. John Powers with the year's best... | NPR | 00:48:24 |
| Rock & Roll Photographer Bob Gruen | He photographed countless rock stars, including John Lennon, the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and Tina Turner. We talk about his friendships... | NPR | 00:50:49 |
| Kate Winslet | We talk about the role of a 19th-century paleontologist scaring her, and how her role in TITANIC changed her life... | NPR | 00:48:35 |
| Jazz Great Dave Brubeck | We celebrate his life and music. He was born 100 years ago. His album TIME OUT, released in 1959, was the first jazz album to sell a million copies | NPR | 00:49:39 |
| National Security in Trump's Final Weeks | We talk with New York Times reporter Eric Schmitt about what Trump's recent actions may mean for American national security. | NPR | 00:49:53 |
| The Great American Songbook | Loudon Wainwright and Vince Giordano collaborated on a new album, I'D RATHER LEAD A BAND, a collection of songs from the Great American Songbook. | NPR | 00:48:47 |
| Hugh Grant | Grant co-stars in the HBO miniseries THE UNDOING. We talk about taking a break from playing nice guys, his activism about tabloid privacy... | NPR | 00:50:26 |
| Sen. Ted Kennedy & American Liberalism | He led a life marked by tragedy and scandal. Neal Gabler says Kennedy's career shaped the course of American liberalism... | NPR | 00:47:50 |
| Carol Burnett | Her show won more than 20 Emmy Awards and is going to streaming services for the first time. David Bianculli interviewed her this year... | NPR | 00:49:11 |
| Conan O'Brien | He'll be starting something new at HBO. Here's a 2019 interview by Terry Gross. Kevin Whitehead reviews a newlrecording by Sonny Rollins. | NPR | 00:49:52 |
| Chef David Chang | Momofuku chef and UGLY DELICIOUS host David Chang talks of fatherhood, mixing culinary traditions, and how depression led him to career risks | NPR | 00:48:41 |
| Vaccine Expert On COVID | Dr. Peter Hotez is helping develop a low-cost COVID vaccine. He talks about vaccine development, the anti-vax movement, and the year ahead... | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| Rural American Sanitation Crisis | Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Alabama, and spent 20 years on the problem of people living with no sanitary means of human waste disposal... | NPR | 00:49:01 |
| CIA's Mind Control Experiments | Stephen Kinzer's book, POISONER IN CHIEF, exposes how CIA scientist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the '50s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs | NPR | 00:48:40 |
| President Barack Obama | He talks of birtherism and fake news, and what he misses most about being president. And why he still has faith in democracy | NPR | 00:48:05 |
| 'Chicago 7' Trial | A movie about The Chicago 7 anti-war activists charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. | NPR | 00:48:16 |
| GOP Identity Crisis Post-Trump | We talk with Nicholas Lemann about the influence Trump might have on his party going forward, and how the GOP will deal with the changes he made | NPR | 00:48:01 |
| Gillian Anderson On The Crown | She talks about playing Margaret Thatcher in the new season of THE CROWN, and then coaches Terry Gross on how to do the former prime minster's voice. | NPR | 00:47:28 |
| Jazz Pianist Keith Jarrett | One of the most celebrated pianists in jazz — acclaimed for his emotionally intense and physically energetic improvisations. | NPR | 00:48:41 |
| Trump's Remaining Weeks In Office | Garrett Graff lays out some of the norm-busting actions President Trump may take in the days remaining in his presidency. | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| The Science Of Smell | Harold McGee on why things smell the way they do - and the ways different chemicals combine to create surprising odors. | NPR | 00:48:01 |
| Life With A Heart Condition | Katherine Standefer tells us about long QT syndrome and the implanted cardiac defibrillator that helps regulate her heart. It changed her life | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| Megan Rapinoe | The USWNT soccer star and activist speaks of her World Cup wins, the ongoing fight for pay equality in women's sports, and taking a knee | NPR | 00:48:47 |
| Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant | Her repertoire includes jazz standards and forgotten early songs, show tunes, and originals. ?She'?s one of this year's MacArthur fellows | NPR | 00:49:17 |
| Reconstructing The Presidency | In his book, AFTER TRUMP, Jack Goldsmith says Trump exposed the presidency's vulnerability to excesses of authority and weaknesses in accountability... | NPR | 00:48:17 |
| Election - Stress Test Of Our Democracy | Barton Gellman discusses what this election reveals about our system's strengths and weaknesses, and about contesting elections | NPR | 00:48:45 |
| Writer Jerald Walker | He talks of growing up on Chicago's South Side, raising his sons in a mostly white suburb and preventing his essays from turning into cliches... | NPR | 00:48:02 |
| Aaron Sorkin | Sorkin has a new film about the trial of the Chicago Seven. Ken Tucker reviews songs by Stevie Wonder, The Pretenders & Bruce Springsteen | NPR | 00:48:17 |
| Remembering Billy Joe Shaver | His songs have been performed by Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley... | NPR | 00:49:06 |
| The Enduring Impact Of COVID-19 | Nicholas Christakis says "Everywhere you see the spread of germs, for the last few thousand years, you see right behind it the spread of lies." | NPR | 00:47:39 |
| Pro-Trump Militias | Mike Giglio profiles the Oath Keepers, a pro-Trump militia group composed of police, soldiers and veterans. What they might do on Election Day and after. | NPR | 00:48:01 |
| What Shaped Joe Biden? | We talk of his long career in the Senate, how personal tragedy changed him, and some of the political missteps he made along the way. | NPR | 00:48:40 |
| Black People In U.S. Food History | Chef Marcus Samuelsson's book, THE RISE, is a celebration of Black excellence in the culinary world and the many Black cooks who influenced American food | NPR | 00:48:60 |
| Father Of The Psychedelic Movement | In his research, Timothy Leary introduced L.S.D. and other psychedelic drugs to many. We listen back to Terry Gross' 1983 interview. | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| SCOTUS Correspondent Nina Totenberg | Widely regarded as the dean of legal journalists, we talk about the Anita Hill story, her friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and her early career | NPR | 00:48:09 |
| Novelist Sigrid Nunez | Her book, WHAT ARE YOU GOING THROUGH, is about a writer dying of cancer and the friend she asks to stay with her... | NPR | 00:47:51 |
| Free Speech In Disinformation | Emily Bazelon on how lies and conspiracy theories sweeping through American media lead scholars to question our faith in free speech... | NPR | 00:48:24 |
| The Fight To End Slavery | Historian H.W. Brands' book, THE ZEALOT AND THE EMANCIPATOR looks at two very different 19th century leaders, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln... | NPR | 00:48:32 |
| Women Left Out Of The Constitution? | Heidi Schreck realized the Constitution had failed to protect women. Her award-winning Broadway play, WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME... | NPR | 00:49:18 |
| Octopus Filmmaker | Craig Foster watched an octopus in the sea near Cape Town, South Africa. He documents their unlikely friendship in MY OCTOPUS TEACHER on Netflix | NPR | 00:48:09 |
| Broadway Stars Grapple With Illness | Married stars Danny Burstein and Rebecca Luker got COVID just as theaters went dark. They tell how their lives changed, and their hopes for the future | NPR | 00:49:01 |
| Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World | Fareed Zakaria says in 10 or 20 years we could look back on the pandemic and say, This was the turning point. His book: TEN LESSONS FOR A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD | NPR | 00:49:01 |
| Undermining School Integration | Chana Joffe-Walt says progressive white parents may say they want their kids to go to diverse schools, but the reality tells a different story... | NPR | 00:48:16 |
| Remembering Bob Gibson | One of baseball's most intimidating pitchers. He died last week at the age of 84. We replay interviews with Gibson and slugger Reggie Jackson... | NPR | 00:48:42 |
| Affordable Health Care Act | We talk with Sarah Kliff about the state of the Affordable Care Act, after 10 years of assaults. Kevin Whitehead reviews the album GENERAL SEMANTICS | NPR | 00:47:28 |
| Novelist Rumaan Alam | Alam's novel LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND centers on two families, one Black and one white, who are sharing a vacation home during a mysterious disaster. | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| Lenny Kravitz | Kravitz talks about growing up the son of a Jewish father and Black mother, finding his musical style, and how Lisa Bonet changed him as a songwriter | NPR | 00:49:45 |
| Ethan Hawke | Hawke plays abolitionist John Brown in the seven-part Showtime series, THE GOOD LORD BIRD. How stage fright made him a better actor... | NPR | 00:49:54 |
| A Cave Diver On The Thrill | Jill Heinerth shares some of her most dangerous and exhilarating diving experiences. David Bianculli reviews the Showtime's COMEDY STORE | NPR | 00:49:07 |
| What If Trump Contests the Election? | Barton Gellman says the 2020 election could trigger a constitutional crisis, and if the election is close, it could take weeks to finish | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| Filmmaker Faces Dad's Mortality | Her Netflix documentary, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, enacts her dad's death from a series of imagined accidents. Justin Chang reviews a film... | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| Inside The Mueller Investigation | Andrew Weissmann shares his experience with the probe and its report on Russian interference in the 2016 election... | NPR | 00:47:09 |
| The Secret History Of Nuclear War | Journalist Fred Kaplan pulls back the curtain on how U.S. presidents, their advisers and generals have handled nuclear war | NPR | 00:49:42 |
| Feminist Activist Gloria Steinem | The new drama THE GLORIAS is based on the feminist activist's memoir MY LIFE ON THE ROAD, and follows Steinem from ages 20 to 40 | NPR | 00:48:27 |
| Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin | The young, charismatic conductor talks about Verdi's Requiem, how he communicates suffering and hope through music... | NPR | 00:48:30 |
| Political Meddling With COVID-19 | Dan Diamond describes efforts by Michael Caputo to alter CDC reports and have scientists change their findings on the pandemic | NPR | 00:48:31 |
| Trump's Presidency Business | Dan Alexander examines Trump's sprawling business interests in his book, WHITE HOUSE, INC. Ken Tucker reviews Mickey Guyton's music | NPR | 00:48:41 |
| Remembering RBG & Neurologist Oliver Sacks | Jeffrey Toobin on how her work led to breakthroughs in the equal treatment of women. A new documentary, OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE | NPR | 00:48:46 |
| WATCHMEN Writer Cord Jefferson | His HBO series has scored 26 Emmy nominations; more than any other series. Justin Chang reviews the grim thriller THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME | NPR | 00:47:33 |
| Country Musician & Historian Marty Stuart | The Grammy winning singer-songwriter is being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He plays his music in this interview | NPR | 00:49:25 |
| COVID On College Campuses | The tough decisions colleges are facing as they decide how to continue classes, test students, and quarantine the sick. | NPR | 00:48:36 |
| Data Science & Elections | Jill Lepore tells the story of the Simulmatics Corporation, whose predictive models have become popular with political campaigns | NPR | 00:48:39 |
| Ayad Akhtar On Blending Fact & Fiction | His novel, HOMELAND ELEGIES, is about a Muslim man who, like Akhtar, grows up in Wisconsin, the son of Pakistani immigrants. | NPR | 00:48:37 |
| Donald Ray Pollock | He worked in a paper mill and meatpacking plant 32 years before becoming a writer. He discusses his novel THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME | NPR | 00:48:57 |
| WWII Displaced Persons | David Nasaw tells of the concentration camp survivors, POWs and others who remained in Germany following the war. | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| Novelist Yaa Gyasi | She drew on her own ?experiences growing up in a largely white community in Alabama for her book, TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM. | NPR | 00:47:57 |
| How Torture Derailed War On Terror | Ali Soufan says torture caused subjects to stop cooperating or give bad information. David Bianculli reviews a new Peacock documentary | NPR | 00:47:57 |
| Celebrating Sonny Rollins | Today is the 90th birthday of the great tenor saxophonist and improviser Sonny Rollins. We celebrate by hearing some of his music... | NPR | 00:49:07 |
| RuPaul & Padma Lakshmi | RuPaul and Padma Lakshmi are nominated for Emmys in the best reality/competition category. Justin Chang reviews the live action MULAN | NPR | 00:48:26 |
| Kerry Washington & Comic Ramy Youssef | We revisit some of our favorite recent entertainment interviews, as we approach the 2020 Emmys. Both guests are nominated for lead roles | NPR | 00:48:35 |
| Protecting Trump From Himself | Michael Schmidt's book focuses on staffers who stood up to Trump: FBI Director James Comey and White House Counsel Don McGahn | NPR | 00:48:01 |
| Miscalculations In CIA Early Years | In his book, THE QUIET AMERICANS, Scott Anderson tells of the CIA's ill-considered covert operations in Eastern Europe after WWII | NPR | 00:48:16 |
| Actor Cherry Jones | She's nominated for an Emmy for her role in the HBO series Succession as Nan Pierce, the head of a family-owned media empire... | NPR | 00:49:12 |
| Celebrating Jazz Legend Charlie Parker | Parker created a totally new sound known as bebop, along with other virtuosos like Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach. | NPR | 00:49:14 |
| Why We Need Widespread Rapid COVID Testing | Alexis Madrigal says millions of at-home COVID saliva tests could return life to normal even if they are less accurate. | NPR | 00:47:05 |
| How Reagan Changed Conservatism | Rick Perlstein spent studies the roots of American conservatism. His book, REAGANLAND, is about Reagan became a revered Republican | NPR | 00:48:30 |
| The 'Foxification' Of America | Brian Stelter says the Trump's cozy relationship with Fox News is like nothing he's seen before. His new book is called HOAX | NPR | 00:48:33 |
| Trump's Immigration Architect | In Jean Guerrero's book HATEMONGER, she describes the ideological arc of Stephen Miller's life and his role as Trump's advisor | NPR | 00:47:31 |
| Remembering FREEDOM SUMMER | In the summer of 64, student volunteers registered African Americans to vote in Mississippi. Justin Chang reviews TESLA with Ethan Hawke | NPR | 00:48:29 |
| Why QAnon Is Important | The conspiracy theory that claims Trump battles a child sex trafficking ring, is the subject of a new article by Adrienne LaFrance | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| The Hiroshima Cover-Up | Lesley Blume's book, FALLOUT, tells of John Hersey, a journalist whose reporting in Hiroshima exposed the devastation of nuclear weapons | NPR | 00:47:33 |
| Carl Hiaasen On Florida Life | His new novel, SQUEEZE ME, is a hilarious mystery set in Palm Beach. We also discuss politics, and voting in Florida | NPR | 00:48:21 |
| ICE & Immigration In The U.S. | Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau paint a portrait of our immigration system in their 6-part Netflix documentary series... | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| Sister Helen Prejean | She's best known for her 1993 memoir, DEAD MAN WALKING, about her role as a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row. | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| WATCHMEN Writer Cord Jefferson | WATCHMEN uses sci-fi and action heroes to examine American racism. We also remember our longtime language commentator Geoff Nunberg | NPR | 00:48:07 |
| How MLK & Malcolm X Influenced Each Other | They are usually seen as opposing forces in the civil rights struggle, but Black Power scholar Dr. Peniel Joseph says the truth is... | NPR | 00:47:53 |
| GOP Strategist Takes On Trump' | Stuart Stevens says the party's support for Trump reflects the abandonment of principles it long claimed to embrace, such as... | NPR | 00:47:60 |
| Director Gina Prince-Bythewood | Her new movie, THE OLD GUARD, follows a diverse group of world-weary warriors who've been alive for centuries... | NPR | 00:48:20 |
| How Satchel Paige Helped Integrate Baseball | We hear from Larry Tye, author of SATCHEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN LEGEND. Maureen Corrigan remembers journalist Pete Hamill | NPR | 00:48:48 |
| Remembering Journalist Pete Hamill | The columnist helped convince his friend Robert Kennedy to run for president. When RFK was shot, he helped tackle the assassin | NPR | 00:48:22 |
| Tragedy Of The Mueller Report | Jeffrey ?Toobin's new book, TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS,?? tells how? Trump and his team out-maneuvered special counsel Robert Mueller. | NPR | 00:49:13 |
| Isabel Wilkerson On Our Caste System | She examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. and how the Nazis borrowed from it... | NPR | 00:48:49 |
| The Decline Of Local News | Since 2004, more than 2,000 U.S. newspapers went out of business. Margaret Sullivan talks of the decline of local news coverage... | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| Remembering Regis Philbin & Annie Ross | Regis, who died July 24, spoke with David Bianculli about his memoir, HOW I GOT THIS WAY. Annie was best-known for the song TWISTED... | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| White Supremacy In American Christianity | Robert P. Jones talks of white supremacy in American Christianity. His new book: WHITE TOO LONG. Maureen Corrigan reviews two novels. | NPR | 00:47:59 |
| Tim Kurkjian On Baseball During COVID | Challenges facing Major League Baseball amid the pandemic. Kevin Whitehead reviews JUST COOLIN, by drummer Art Blakey | NPR | 00:47:51 |
| Poet Natasha Trethewey | When she was 19, her abusive stepfather killed her mother. In her memoir, MEMORIAL DRIVE, she revives her mother's memory and shares stories... | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| Mike Birbiglia & Jen Stein | When they married, they agreed not to have kids. Then Jen changed her mind. In their book, Mike writes "painfully true" stories... | NPR | 00:47:52 |
| Remembering Christopher Dickey | In a career spanning four decades, he wrote 7 books and reported from more than 40 countries, covering war, conflict and espionage. | NPR | 00:48:09 |
| Mary Trump, The President's Niece | She was devastated when her uncle was elected president. Her book, TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, describes him as a "belligerent" youth... | NPR | 00:48:30 |
| I May Destroy You | In this HBO series Michaela Coel plays a writer who goes to a bar, is drugged & sexually assaulted. John Powers reviews INTIMATIONS | NPR | 00:47:60 |
| Jim McCloskey's Mission | He devoted 40 years to justice for innocent people. His memoir: WHEN TRUTH IS ALL YOU HAVE. Ken Tucker reviews WOMEN IN MUSIC III | NPR | 00:48:27 |
| Remembering John Lewis | Lewis grew up the son of sharecroppers and later became an associate of Martin Luther King Jr. He died July 17 at the age of 80. | NPR | 00:47:07 |
| Charlize Theron / Danny Trejo | Charlize Theron stars in THE OLD GUARD on Netflix. INMATE #1: THE RISE OF DANNY TREJO reveals his journey from prison to stardom | NPR | 00:48:39 |
| Why Our Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse | Christine Montross studied changes in the Norwegian prison system, and what we might learn from it. Her book WAITING FOR AN ECHO | NPR | 00:48:08 |
| Trump Weakens Worker Protections | Jane Mayer on weaker poultry industry health and safety regulations due to COVID-19. Her New Yorker article: TRUMP HELPS TYCOONS EXPLOIT THE PANDEMIC. | NPR | 00:48:04 |
| SNL's Colin Jost | SNL Weekend Update co-anchor and writer Colin Jost has a new memoir. Justin Chang reviews PALM SPRINGS starring Andy Samberg. | NPR | 00:49:37 |
| Matthew Rhys | His version of attorney Perry Mason is more hardboiled than the one Raymond Burr played: "He's a man who lives on whiskey and cigarettes" | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| MOONLIGHT Actor André Holland | His parents were voting rights activists and his father a preacher. He'll star in a radio version of Shakespeare's RICHARD II | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| Chaos & Healing In The ER | In her memoir, THE BEAUTY IN BREAKING, Michele Harper describes discovering evidence of child abuse as well as trauma in her own life | NPR | 00:47:21 |
| White Evangelicals Worship Trump | Sarah Posner says while Trump may not speak the language of Christian values, he speaks the language of grievance, giving voice to legal... | NPR | 00:48:16 |
| Senator McCarthy & Trump | Larry Tye says both are bullies who exploit fears and point fingers when attacked. Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel WANT. | NPR | 00:46:35 |
| Padma Lakshmi | In her new series, TASTE THE NATION, TOP CHEF host and executive producer explores the cultures that contribute to American cuisine | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| Remembering Carl Reiner | We listen to our interview with Reiner, & hear excerpts of interviews with Mary Tyler Moore & longtime friend & collaborator Mel Brooks | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| Patrick Stewart On STAR TREK: PICARD | He's back as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the CBS All Access series. "I am not averse to risk-taking and I don't judge myself." | NPR | 00:49:22 |
| The Militarization Of Police | Journalist Radley Balko says police departments across America are increasingly using military equipment on peaceful protestors. | NPR | 00:48:13 |
| A Doctor Confronts Medical Error | Errors are common, yet many in medicine don't speak up. In her book, When We Do Harm, Dr. Ofri looks into the flaws in the system... | NPR | 00:48:44 |
| HAMILTON Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda | A 2016 film of HAMILTON begins streaming on Disney+ July 3. Miranda says the production is as timely as ever... | NPR | 00:50:02 |
| LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones | After the AIDS epidemic hit San Francisco, Cleve co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and started the AIDS Memorial Quilt... | NPR | 00:49:05 |
| Actor Christine Baranski | She started her career in theater and now stars as a progressive lawyer in THE GOOD FIGHT. She talks of singing & her grandmother... | NPR | 00:47:35 |
| Nikole Hannah-Jones On The Wealth Gap | The Pulitzer-winning journalist says slavery and legalized segregation robbed Black Americans of the ability to accumulate wealth. | NPR | 00:47:43 |
| Lifelong Struggle With Eating Disorders | For nearly 30 years, Susan Burton kept her binge eating secret. "As long as I was bingeing, I didn't have to think. I didn't have to... | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| Treating PTSD With Psychedelics | Dr. Julie Holland has used psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. Her book is GOOD CHEMISTRY | NPR | 00:47:23 |
| Singing Slave Narratives | Rhiannon Giddens' album FREEDOM HIGHWAY includes songs based on slave narratives. She notes the banjo comes from the African akonting... | NPR | 00:49:06 |
| Parenting Without Perfection | Kristen Howerton talks about how raising two white biological daughters and two black adopted sons helped her understand white privilege | NPR | 00:47:50 |
| Assessing COVID-19 Risk As The U.S. Reopens | We talk with University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about the safety concerns in terms of protests, indoor gatherings... | NPR | 00:48:14 |
| Lasting Effects Of Abortion | Dr. Diana Greene Foster says "95 percent of women who receive an abortion later report that it was the right decision for them." | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| 1919 Chicago Riots To Today | Poet Eve Ewing looks back on a century-old riot in Chicago, set off after a black teen drowned while being stoned by white people... | NPR | 00:48:51 |
| Black Athletes & Social Justice | Interview with James Baldwin, Raoul Peck & Howard Bryant, author of a book on African American athletes standing for social justice | NPR | 00:48:50 |
| 'The King Of Staten Island' | The film draws on Pete Davidson's real life experience losing his own father, a 9/11 First Responder. Justin Chang reviews DA 5 BLOODS | NPR | 00:47:32 |
| Rethinking American Policing | Jamiles Lartey says "?Policing wasn't always this way. It wasn't always this big. It wasn't always this bureaucratic..." | NPR | 00:47:41 |
| The Trump's Response To DC Protests | Matt Zapotosky talks about Attorney General Barr's role in White House's forceful response to largely peaceful protests in DC. | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| Texas Ranger History | Their exploits are portrayed in movies and TV, but Doug Swanson says they have a dark history of abuse and racial oppression... | NPR | 00:48:18 |
| Unresolved Legacy Of Reconstruction | Eric Foner analyzes how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments affect current issues of voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations... | NPR | 00:48:33 |
| Why GOP Backs Trump's 'Cult' | Anne Applebaum says Trump built a proto-authoritarian cult in the White House, with little to no dissent from the GOP... | NPR | 00:47:26 |
| Wes Moore On Freddie Gray & George Floyd | In his book FIVE DAYS, Wes chronicles the 2015 Baltimore uprising after Freddie Gray's death. "We're... reliving history right now" | NPR | 00:48:29 |
| The Migration Of Living Things | Sonia Shah, author of THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION says the "invaders" are just following biology. She talks of human, animal & plant migration | NPR | 00:47:26 |
| George Floyd Protests & Police Reform | Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams On police reform and the protests against brutality and systemic racism happening across America. | NPR | 00:48:15 |
| Margo Price & Larry Kramer | Singer-songwriter Margo Price spoke with us when her album ALL AMERICAN MADE was released. Remembering AIDS activist Larry Kramer | NPR | 00:48:53 |
| Burying New York City's Dead | In just a two month period, New York City had 20,000 COVID deaths. What happens to the bodies? W.J. Hennigan answers... | NPR | 00:47:24 |
| How Breathing Affects Sleep, Anxiety & Resilience | James Nestor: why breathing through the nose beats breathing through the mouth, snoring, and how breath work can affect overall health. | NPR | 00:48:16 |
| Comic Hannah Gadsby | Her autism diagnosis, growing up in Tasmania, and her new special, DOUGLAS. We review Nancy McKinley's ST. CHRISTOPHER ON PLUTO. | NPR | 00:49:06 |
| Winston Churchill's Fearless Leadership | In THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, Erik Larson details Churchill's first year in office, when England endured a Nazi bombing campaign... | NPR | 00:48:04 |
| Beatles Photographer Astrid Kirchherr | Astrid Kirchherr, who died May 12, took the very first publicity photos of the then little-known Liverpool band, The Beatles... | NPR | 00:48:55 |
| Pandemic Reveals Gender Inequality | For many couples, the women take on twice as much housework and childcare as their male partners, even when both are home full time... | NPR | 00:48:21 |
| Breaking The Edward Snowden Story | Barton Gellman shares a Pulitzer for reporting on former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and the government's secret surveillance program | NPR | 00:47:57 |
| Meditation Can Ease Pandemic Anxiety | Dan Harris credits meditation with helping him work through his anxiety over a panic attack. It lets people "relax into the uncertainty." | NPR | 00:47:19 |
| Janelle Monae | She stars in the series HOMECOMING as a veteran who wakes up in a rowboat and is can't remember who she is or how she got there. | NPR | 00:47:56 |
| Remembering Jerry Stiller & Cellist Lynn Harrell | Actor and comedian Jerry Stiller spoke to us in 1993. We also remember award-winning cellist Lynn Harrell from an interview in 1987 | NPR | 00:47:28 |
| Learning From The 1918 Pandemic | John Barry's 2004 book about the 1918 influenza pandemic is a current bestseller. Barry talks about the relevent parallels... | NPR | 00:47:31 |
| Self-Curing Doctor With Rare Disease | David Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with Castleman disease. In CHASING MY CURE, he recounts crowd-sourcing his own treatment with a global network | NPR | 00:48:08 |
| Writer Michael Arceneaux | He graduated with more than $100,000 of student loan debt. His essay I DON'T WANT TO DIE POOR recounts how that shaped his life | NPR | 00:48:02 |
| How Pandemic Affects Voting? | Emily Bazelon focuses on the financial and political obstacles that are likely to prevent many Americans from voting by mail... | NPR | 00:48:41 |
| Steve Martin | We revisit our interview with comic Steve Martin from 2008. He tells of his years as a stand up comic—and why he ended that... | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| Saving The Restaurant Industry | The TOP CHEF judge speaks about broken food supply chains, food waste, and what the restaurant industry might become post COVID-19. | NPR | 00:47:54 |
| Understanding Nancy Pelosi | Molly Ball says the key to the speaker's success is her mastery of the inside game in politics — building relationships, counting votes... | NPR | 00:49:22 |
| Exploring Depression With John Moe | In his podcast, THE HILARIOUS WORLD OF DEPRESSION, he talks with his guests (mostly comics) about their experiences with mental illness. | NPR | 00:48:34 |
| Fashion Guru Tim Gunn | He talks about his new series, MAKING THE CUT, how to give constructive feedback, and why he's moved to tears by beautiful things. | NPR | 00:49:25 |
| Remembering Bollywood Icon Irrfan Khan | Irrfan, one of India's most beloved film stars, and internationally known SLUMDOG MILLI0ONAIRE, LIFE OF PI and others died this week. | NPR | 00:47:49 |
| Who's Benefiting? | Jesse Drucker on how the economic rescue package benefits the rich. French guitarist Stephane Wrembel on jazz great Django Reinhardt... | NPR | 00:49:17 |
| Learning From China's Approach To COVID | Donald McNeil points to China as a model of how to stop a fast moving pandemic in its tracks. John Powers reviews Hulu's NORMAL PEOPLE. | NPR | 00:49:08 |
| One Family's Marijuana Brownies | Alia Volz's family ran a weed brownie business. Her memoir is HOME BAKED. Maureen Corrigan reviews two great books... | NPR | 00:48:48 |
| Mindy Kaling | Her Netflix show, NEVER HAVE I EVER, is based on her own experiences as a nerdy, confident teen who pined for a boyfriend... | NPR | 00:48:57 |
| Remembering Brian Dennehy | Brian died April 15. He spoke with us in 1999. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead shares a remembrance of saxophonist Lee Konitz... | NPR | 00:49:21 |
| Trump's 'Enabler-In-Chief' | Jane Mayer talks about how Mitch McConnell has thrown his support behind the President, and allowed him to diminish congressional power... | NPR | 00:48:54 |
| Notes From An Apocalypse | Mark O'Connell on bunkers in South Dakota, Mars as a "backup planet," and catastrophy tourism. John Powers on sheltering bingeing... | NPR | 00:49:04 |
| Author Jennifer Finney Boylan | She came out as transgender in her 40s. She describes her book, GOOD BOY, as a memoir of masculinity, kind of told the way an expatriate might... | NPR | 00:47:36 |
| Actor Zoe Kazan | She stars in HBO's THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA, in which Charles Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt in the race for the presidency, moving the U.S. to fascism | NPR | 00:48:35 |
| Singer-Songwriter Iris DeMent | She describes herself as very shy, but says when songs started coming to me, I felt I didn't have the option to hide and avoid the stage | NPR | 00:48:25 |
| How Dr. Fauci Changed Medicine | Michael Specter on Fauci's work during the AIDS epidemic, why Trump can't fire him, and the structural changes and research... | NPR | 00:46:31 |
| Truth About Our 'Deep State' | David Rohde refutes Trump's claims of a deep state and says he's creating a parallel shadow government of like-minded loyalists | NPR | 00:48:27 |
| Jason Bateman | He stars in the Netflix series OZARK as a financial manager who has become the money launderer for Mexico's second biggest drug cartel. | NPR | 00:48:38 |
| The Big Business Of Inequality | Nelson Schwartz, author of THE VELVET ROPE ECONOMY, says special privileges for the super-rich are dividing America... | NPR | 00:48:12 |
| Remembering John Prine | Legendary songwriter, singer and guitarist John Prine died Tuesday from complications of the coronavirus and prior cancers. He was 73. | NPR | 00:49:14 |
| Jail Population Amid COVID-19 | San Francisco's D.A. Chesa Boudin is working to reduce incarcerations. Since January, he's reduced county jail population by nearly 40%. | NPR | 00:48:60 |
| Stephen King | As author of a 1978 pandemic novel, he understands why fans have said the COVID-19 pandemic feels like something out of his books... | NPR | 00:49:14 |
| Cooking Alongside Covid-19 | Former New York Times food editor Sam Sifton says the resurgence of family meals is one of the "precious few good things" from the pandemic. | NPR | 00:47:44 |
| Kerry Washington | In the Hulu series LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, she co-stars opposite Reese Witherspoon as Mia Warren, a bohemian artist single mom with... | NPR | 00:48:43 |
| Remembering Three Musicians | They died this week of COVID-19. Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, bandleader/writer Adam Schlesinger, and pianist/educator Ellis Marsalis | NPR | 00:51:17 |
| Stories From The Front Line | Trauma surgeon Dr. David Nott has spent decades volunteering in war and disaster zones all over the world. Now he advises doctors on COVID-19. | NPR | 00:48:45 |
| Masks, Vaccines & How COVID-19 Might End | Two years ago, Atlantic science writer Ed Yong predicted a global pandemic and our unpreparedness. Now that it's come true, he's been covering... | NPR | 00:48:06 |
| The Origin Of Heaven And Hell | Bart Ehrman says the notion of eternal rewards and punishments isn't in the Old Testament or the teachings of Jesus... | NPR | 00:47:37 |
| Winston Churchill: Fearless Leadership | In THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, Erik Larson details Churchill's first year in office, during which England endured a Nazi bombing campaign... | NPR | 00:48:54 |
| 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 |
Subscribe to This PodCast Series! It's FREE!!
Copy this URL: http://www.airsla.org/broadcasts/freshairrss.xml and paste it into Podcatcher software such as Juice or iTunes,
If you don't have a Podcatcher, check out the recommendations on our Podcatcher Page.