The New Yorker Radio Hour
Episodes
Episode 21: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Presidential Race, and Malcolm Gladwell on School Shootings
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that, in light of the 2016 Presidential race, “Veep” is now like a “sombre” documentary; Malcolm Gladwell ...
Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week: A Manhattan bartender, prizefighter, and onetime bank robber returns to his ancestral mansion in Serbia; Michael Friedman brings us a new s...
Episode 19: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Father Michael Pfleger, a white priest on Chicago’s South Side, holds a funeral for a young man who threatened his life; Larry David appl...
Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore
19 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, two stories out of Baltimore: “The Wire” creator David Simon drives the city with Jelani Cobb, and David Remnick talks to the thirty-ye...
Episode 17: Cuba Gooding, Jr., on O. J. Simpson, and Embracing Insomnia
12 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Jeffrey Toobin revisit the O.J. Simpson trial, a songwriter hits the campaign trail, and the lifelong night owl Pat...
Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
05 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” wh...
Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, ...
Episode 14: The Koch Brothers, the Ninth Planet, and an Undefeated Female Boxer
22 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, three epic battles: Jane Mayer recounts her experience investigating—and being investigated by—Koch Industries; Junot Díaz discu...
Episode 13: El Chapo v. Flores Brothers, and Jack Handey’s Santa Fe
15 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
If Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, is extradited to the United States, he might face two formidable witnesses: identical t...
Episode 12: Sarah Koenig on "Serial," and a Resilient Poet
08 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Koenig, the host of “Serial,” talks with David Remnick about why her podcast’s success caught her by surprise. Robin Coste Lewis, who re...
Episode 11: Life as a Reporter Covering ISIS, and Puppet Sex
01 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What's the funniest way to spook a horse? Cartoonists Matt Diffee and Emily Flake give us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how jokes get made. Then, com...
Episode 10: Lenny Shiller's Famous Cars, and the Search for a Lost Father
25 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lenny Shiller owns some of the most recognizable cars around; his vintage vehicles have been appearing in movies for years (often with Lenny at the wh...
Episode 9: Christmas Skies Full of Drones, and Donald Trump's Ultimate Luxury
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Singer had the temerity to write about Donald Trump, and Trump wanted revenge -- but just who came out on top? Sofia Coppola talks about working ...
Episode 8: The Missing Boater, and Robert Glasper
11 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On shows as different as “Jessica Jones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Game of Thrones,” characters confront sexual violence in ways ...
Episode 7: The Mayor and the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
High school students in Queens mount a fraught election simulation, Salt Lake City’s openly gay mayor-elect talks about the Mormon Church, and Roge...
Episode 6: Two Writers and a Rock Star Onstage
27 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Two interviews recorded live at the 2015 New Yorker Festival: Patti Smith talks with David Remnick about how her writing and music are intertwined, wi...
Episode 5: City Slickers and Soul Food
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
George Booth started drawing cartoons when he was three-and-a-half years old. (His first was a race car stuck in the mud.) Now nearly ninety, he’s b...
Episode 4: Surfing Lessons in a Warming World
13 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to grow up with twenty siblings? When Sue and Hector Badeau considered the lives of children in foster homes, which are often traumati...
Episode 3: Hacking for the Masses, and Gloria Steinem
06 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The hacker group Lizard Squad ruined Christmas for a lot of people last year when it hacked into Sony and Microsoft servers and rendered new PlayStati...
Episode Two: Amy Schumer, Jorge Ramos, and the Search for a Lost Father
30 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Schumer began her career playing a deranged, rich party girl. With three seasons of her Peabody Award-winning series Inside Amy Schumer now comp...
Episode One: Boarding Call
23 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In The New Yorker Radio Hour’s début episode, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of “Between the Wo...
Coming Soon: The New Yorker Radio Hour
17 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
One of the nation’s most celebrated magazines comes together with New York’s flagship public radio station to create a new weekly radio program an...