Remembering Longtime NPR Host Bob Edwards
Wed, 14 Feb
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We remember Peabody award-winning broadcast journalist Bob Edwards, who died on Saturday at the age ...
Mark Ruffalo
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:55:17 +0000
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Ruffalo plays a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. The role was a bi...
Molly Ringwald
Mon, 12 Feb
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Molly Ringwald became a film icon in the '80s after starring in a trio of films: Sixteen Candles, Th...
Best Of: The Race Card Project / The Early AIDS Crisis
Sat, 10 Feb
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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she describes as "an archive o...
Remembering MC5 Guitarist Wayne Kramer / Carl Weathers
Fri, 09 Feb
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We remember Wayne Kramer, the guitarist of the late '60s proto-punk band MC5. The revolutionary band...
The Surprisingly Lax Regulation Of Our Railroads
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:02:28 +0000
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Award-winning ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders has spent the last two years investigating America'...
The Life and Legacy Of Medgar & Myrlie Evers
Wed, 07 Feb
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The civil rights leader Medgar Evers is maybe more known for his assassination in 1963 than the work...
A Foster Parent On Loving & Letting Go
Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:08:05 +0000
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When Mark Daley and his husband, Jason, became foster parents to two brothers, they fell in love wit...
What Americans Really Think About Race
Mon, 05 Feb
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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she calls "an archive of the h...
Best Of: Emma Stone / The Birth Of Psychedelic Science
Sat, 03 Feb
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Emma Stone is nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in Poor Things. She spoke with Terry Gros...
'Oppenheimer' Dir. Christopher Nolan / Mark Ronson On The 'Barbie' Soundtrack
Fri, 02 Feb
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Oppenheimer and Barbie have been nominated for 13 and 8 Oscars, respectively. We feature our intervi...
The Forgotten Heroes Of The AIDS Crisis
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:15:49 +0000
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Kai Wright's WNYC podcast, Blindspot, revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in...
Emma Stone
Wed, 31 Jan
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Stone has two Oscar nominations for Poor Things: One for best actress and one for best picture, as a...
Unpacking The Immigration Crisis
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:42:10 +0000
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Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly from Central America, arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border every...
Inside A Jim Crow-Era Asylum
Mon, 29 Jan
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NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's fi...
Best Of: Tracee Ellis Ross / Racism In Medicine
Sat, 27 Jan
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Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the new movie American Fiction, which is nominated for five Oscars, in...
Remembering Composer Peter Shickeley / Shangri-Las Lead Mary Weiss
Fri, 26 Jan
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We remember composer and classical music satirist Peter Schickele, whose alter ego was "P.D.Q. Bach....
How The War Between Israel And Hamas Is Widening
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:34:17 +0000
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New York Times correspondent David Sanger says that Iran and its proxies are posing new challenges: ...
Tracee Ellis Ross
Wed, 24 Jan
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Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the Oscar-nominated movie American Fiction. For eight seasons, she sta...
How War Changed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:51:30 +0000
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Time correspondent Simon Shuster has been interviewing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since...
Reckoning With Racism In Medicine
Mon, 22 Jan
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Dr. Uché Blackstock was one of the first doctors to raise the alarm that COVID-19 was disproportion...
Best Of: 'Origin' Dir. Ava DuVernay / How Algorithms 'Flatten' Culture
Sat, 20 Jan
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Ava DuVernay's new film Origin explores a new way to consider the historical subjugation of Black pe...
A 'Succession' Appreciation
Fri, 19 Jan
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HBO's Succession swept at the Emmys, winning six awards for its fourth and final season. We compiled...
The Home Schooling Surge
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:40:52 +0000
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Home schooling is now America's fastest growing form of education, but Washington Post reporter Pete...
How Algorithms 'Flatten' Culture
Wed, 17 Jan
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Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the algorithms that dictate what we watch, read and listen t...
The Birth Of Psychedelic Science
Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:16:47 +0000
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You may have heard about the pioneering research of anthropologist Margaret Mead, but do you know ab...
Ava DuVernay Illuminates America's Caste System with 'Origin'
Mon, 15 Jan
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Award-winning director Ava DuVernay's new film Origin explores a new way to consider the historical ...
Best Of: Sterling K. Brown / Paul Giamatti
Sat, 13 Jan
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Actor Sterling K. Brown co-stars in the new film American Fiction. We'll talk about his role in that...
Josh Groban's Sweeney Todd
Fri, 12 Jan
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The Grammy-Award winning baritone first auditioned to play the Demon Barber of Fleet Street back in ...
The Movement To Dismantle Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:15:41 +0000
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Washington Post reporter Julian Mark talks about the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, ...
Paul Giamatti On 'The Holdovers'
Wed, 10 Jan
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Giamatti says his latest movie, filmed at various prep schools in Massachusetts and directed by Alex...
The Long Recovery Back From Traumatic Brain Injury
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:03:59 +0000
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Annie Liontas experienced three brain injuries in the span of one year, which led to dizziness, memo...
Sterling K. Brown
Mon, 08 Jan
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Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...
Best Of: Making 'Maestro' / A Restaurateur's Journey
Sat, 06 Jan
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Bradley Cooper talks about writing, directing, and starring in the new film Maestro, in which he por...
Remembering The Smothers Brothers, Who Changed TV
Fri, 05 Jan
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We remember Tom Smothers, of the comic folk duo the Smothers Brothers, who died last week at the age...
The Ozempic Revolution
Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:23:48 +0000
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Bloomberg News reporter Emma Court explains how these so-called "miracle" weight loss drugs work, an...
Restaurateur Rose Previte's Lessons Learned From Around The World
Wed, 03 Jan
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In her new cookbook, Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond, Rose Previte writes about what it's l...
Bradley Cooper & Yannick Nézet-Séguin On 'Maestro'
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:52:47 +0000
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In his new biopic Maestro, Bradley Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Leonard Bernst...
Barbra Streisand
Mon, 01 Jan
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We start the new year with Barbra Streisand, and listen back to the interview we recorded in Novembe...
Taraji P. Henson / Pianist Brad Mehldau
Sat, 30 Dec
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Taraji P. Henson stars as jazz singer Shug Avery in the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple. ...
Jazz With The EarRegulars
Fri, 29 Dec
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Our dark week continues with a performance by and conversation with two of the best traditional jazz...
Roots Co-Founder, Black Thought (Tariq Trotter)
Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:14:07 +0000
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We continue our series of some of our favorite interviews of the year with co-founder and lead MC of...
Brooke Shields
Wed, 27 Dec
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When Shields was 11 months old, she was in soap commercials and print ads. At the age of 12, she sta...
Allison Russell's Road To Self-Love
Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:13:19 +0000
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Canadian musician Allison Russell talks and sings about the abuse she endured from her racist adopti...
Merry Questlove Christmas
Mon, 25 Dec
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has put together a playlist of some of his favorite Christmas recordings...
Best Of: David Byrne's Xmas Playlist / Nicolas Cage
Sat, 23 Dec
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It's a David Byrne Christmas. The cofounder and frontman of Talking Heads has put together a playlis...
Timothy Olyphant On 'Justified'
Fri, 22 Dec
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From now until the end of 2023, we're listening back to some stand-out interviews from this year. Ti...
Nicolas Cage
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:34:17 +0000
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Cage has been acting for almost 45 years, and has appeared in more than 100 films. Dream Scenario is...
A David Byrne Christmas Special
Wed, 20 Dec
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The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — inc...
Remembering Actor Andre Braugher
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:43:52 +0000
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Braugher died of lung cancer last week at age 61. He's best known for his portrayals of police in tw...
Taraji P. Henson On 'The Color Purple'
Mon, 18 Dec
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This Christmas, the film adaptation of the musical The Color Purple hits the big screen. For award-w...
David Sedaris Can't Wait To Watch You Panic Shop This Week
Sun, 17 Dec
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Humorist and author David Sedaris is a public radio regular – his 'Santaland Diaries' first aired ...