Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America
Episode 1144
A heavy complexity is on the shoulders of the young of our species in these years — humans growing up in this time. At the same time, from the digit…
1 year ago
David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News
Episode 1143
A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped through m…
1 year ago
Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment"
Episode 1142
Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here was part …
1 year ago
Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver
Episode 1141
A sweet and searching conversation between Krista and the man behind Bon Iver at this year's On Air Fest, full of wisdom and revelation.
He is a pers…
1 year ago
A New Season of On Being
Episode 1140
On Being is back on April 16, with a special season tethered in the persistent beauty and courage of what it can mean to be human — six conversations…
1 year, 1 month ago
Remembering Nikki Giovanni — ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’
Episode 1139
The delightful Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9. It is a joy and a solace to relisten to this beloved conversation she had with Krista in 2016 – to expe…
1 year, 5 months ago
Joan Baez — "This Gift of a Voice"
Episode 1138
She is known as the voice of a generation. The Queen of Folk. A legend. An icon, the one who sang “We Shall Overcome” alongside Martin Luther King Jr…
1 year, 5 months ago
adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life
Episode 1137
The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody w…
1 year, 10 months ago
“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón
Episode 1136
An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's rea…
1 year, 10 months ago
Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning
Episode 1135
We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In …
1 year, 10 months ago