Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCorrecting The Record On Elvis's Manager
Terry Gross talks with rock historian Peter Guralnick, author of the definitive two volume biography of Elvis Presley. His new book is about Elvis's …
7 months ago
Has NASA Ceded Its Mission To Elon Musk?
The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing the face of NASA, and why Musk's dream of Mars ma…
7 months ago
Comic Marc Maron On Grief, Cats, And Being Openhearted
As he winds down his podcast, WTF, after 16 years, Marc Maron reflects on what he'll miss: "These conversations are very real conversations for me ..…
7 months ago
Mariska Hargitay On Freeing Herself From Generational Trauma
The Law & Order: SVU actor was just 3 years old in 1967 when her movie star mom, Jayne Mansfield, died in a car crash. Hargitay's new documentary hig…
7 months ago
Best Of: Actor Leslie Uggams / Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present
Actor and singer Leslie Uggams talks about her remarkable career, which started when she was 6. She was later the first Black woman to host a TV vari…
7 months ago
Remembering Lyricist Alan Bergman / The 'Outrageous' Jessica Mitford
The lyrics for the songs "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "The Way We Were," "Nice 'n' Easy," "You Must Believe in Spring," and "The Windm…
7 months ago
The Shifting Landscape Of Higher Education
The Trump administration has been pressuring elite universities, like Harvard and Columbia, with widespread demands, and threats of federal funding c…
7 months ago
A Chatbot Reacts To A Book About Tech
After writing chapters of her new book about how tech companies help and exploit us, tech journalist and novelist Vauhini Vara fed those chapters to …
7 months ago
Leslie Uggams Looks Back On Her Decades In Show Business
Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films. She was the first Black woman to host a TV varie…
7 months, 1 week ago
Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present
In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the heart of Noepe, the nam…
7 months, 1 week ago