The New Yorker Radio Hour
Episodes
Episode 35: Samantha Bee’s Fury, and Staffing the Supreme Court
17 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Could Citizens United be overturned? Jeffrey Toobin and Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, discuss what a Supreme Court dominated by Democratic ...
Episode 34: Cats vs. Dogs and the Late Zaha Hadid
10 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the war on terror, bomb-sniffing dogs are essential companions. When it comes to your sex life, no animal provides blissful privacy l...
Episode 33: Awkward Dog Banter, and the Marxist Who Brought Us “Hamilton”
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, the New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about Kalief Browder, a teen-ager from the Bronx who spent three years jailed at Rikers ...
Episode 32: Lena Dunham Turns Thirty, and Memorial Day Malaise
27 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lena Dunham talks about turning thirty and backing Hillary Clinton when her peers are feeling the Bern; and Amy Davidson gives us a history lesson on ...
Episode 31: Larry Wilmore on Presidential Comedians, and James O’Keefe’s Blunder
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick speaks to the comedian Larry Wilmore about performing at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he now-infamously ref...
Episode 30: The Politics of Genetics, Virtual Reality, and a Sound Castle in New Jersey
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As scientists learn more about how genes affect everything from hair color to sexual orientation and mental health, we’re faced with moral and polit...
Episode 29: The Missing Boater, and Robert Glasper
06 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On shows as varied as “Jessica Jones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Game of Thrones,” characters are confronting sexual violence in w...
Episode 28: Annie Dillard, Anohni’s New Sound, and Torture in a Florida Prison
29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A former prison counsellor discusses the abuse and torture of mentally ill inmates she suspected inside a Florida correctional institution—and the e...
Episode 27: Who Will Care for Our Parents, and the Election According to Teens
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, the activist Ai-jen Poo envisions a happier, more affordable alternative to nursing homes, and we meet a home health aide wh...
Episode 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad
15 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, Ben Taub shares his reporting on a group that’s gathering top-secret documents tying Bashar al-Assad’s regime to mass tortu...
Episode 25: The Ballad of a Trump Fan, and the Little Mermaid Gets Dumped
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look into the lives and careers of two giants of soul—Aretha Franklin and the late James Brown. From the campaign trail, Michael Fried...
Episode 24: Larry David, Amy Poehler, and Randy Newman
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, three highlights from The New Yorker Festival: Larry David explains why he envies his sociopathic alter ego on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” ...
Episode 23: The Birth of Instagram, and Tunisia’s Jihadis
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger talks about how Instagram took over the world; the New Yorker’s cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, shares his...
Episode 22: Nate Silver on Trump Versus Cruz, and Roz Chast’s Horses
18 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Three great political minds talk to David Remnick about the 2016 election, Roz Chast is visited by a young cartoonist who is following in h...
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...