Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAt 3 Years Old, David Tennant Knew He Wanted To Be Doctor Who
When David Tennant was three, he told his parents he wanted to grow up to play Doctor Who on TV. As a teen, he held onto that dream: "I was quite wee…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Amanda Knox was convicted — and ultimately exonerated — for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Italy. Now in a new …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Celebrating 20 Years Of 'The Office'
It's been 20 years since the debut of NBC's hit mockumentary sitcom The Office. To celebrate the anniversary, we're listening back to Terry Gross' ar…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Jason Isbell On Love, Heartbreak & Songwriting
Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album, Foxes in the Snow. "What I was attempting to do is document a very spec…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
ICE Campus Arrests & The 'Struggle For The Soul' Of America
As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., immigration law professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the human cost. He says…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Writer, Critic & Curator Hilton Als Looks For The Silences
As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Richard Pryor have red…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
The Netflix miniseries follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator and star Stephen Graham says he read about simil…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Best Of: A Writer Grapples With A Life-Changing Accident / The Post WWII 'Red Scare'
Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being completely dependent on others — and the sense of p…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog
Sigrid Nunez's 2018 novel The Friend won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a…
11 months ago
The Former Jihadist Trying To Remake Syria
Atlantic writer Robert Worth talks about Syria's transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. He was the founder of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, but is…
11 months ago