Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPoet Ada Limón On Writing In Uncertain Times
As the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate, Ada Limón has spent her career writing about the hardest parts of being human: loss, grief, longing, and our rela…
8 months ago
Best Of: Scarlett Johansson & June Squibb / Mark Ronson
Oscar-nominated actors Scarlett Johansson and June Squibb talk about their new film, Eleanor The Great. In Johansson's directorial debut, a woman sta…
8 months ago
Al Pacino & Sidney Lumet: 'Dog Day Afternoon' At 50
A film about a man trying to fund a gender-affirming operation by robbing a bank sounds like a modern-day plot. But 50 years ago, that was the scenar…
8 months ago
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
The WWE superstar considered pursuing a career in mixed martial arts before realizing, "I don't like getting punched in the face." Johnson plays MMA …
8 months ago
Implications Of The DOJ Targeting The President’s Critics
President Trump is pressuring the Department of Justice to pursue his political enemies, like former FBI director James Comey. Legal scholar (and for…
8 months ago
Mark Ronson On DJing In The '90s
Oscar and Grammy-winning music producer Mark Ronson says nothing beats the rush of a great DJ set. "You can call it the scream, the chant, whatever i…
8 months, 1 week ago
Comic Cristela Alonzo
For the first seven years of her life, Cristela Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. She spoke with Terry Gross about ICE…
8 months, 1 week ago
Best Of: Samin Nosrat / Elizabeth Gilbert
After the tremendous success of Salt Fat Acid Heat, chef and author Samin Nosrat realized she needed to recalibrate her life. "I really believed on s…
8 months, 1 week ago
Jimmy Kimmel's Path To Late Night
With Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the center of a free speech debate, we're revisiting Kimmel's 2013 interview with Terry Gross. The late night host talked …
8 months, 1 week ago
Scarlett Johansson & June Squibb On 'Eleanor The Great'
Actor Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with Eleanor The Great, about a 94-year-old woman who claims her dead friend's Holocaust story a…
8 months, 1 week ago