Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Unfolding Genocide in Sudan
The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined “Escape from Khartoum.” The contributor Nicolas Niarchos journeyed for days through …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
Barbra Streisand has been a huge presence in American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for more than sixty years. She was the youngest person eve…
7 months ago
John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King”
John Seabrook’s new book is about a family business—not a mom-and-pop store, but a huge operation run by a ruthless patriarch. The patriarch is aging…
7 months ago
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism
When Donald Trump made an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he brought vaccine skepticism and the debunked link between vaccines and autism into …
7 months, 1 week ago
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”
In the music business, Brian Eno is a name to conjure with. He’s been the producer of tremendous hits by U2, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Grace Jones,…
7 months, 1 week ago
Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News
Lesley Stahl, a linchpin of CBS News, began at the network in 1971, covering major events such as Watergate, and for many years has been a correspond…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game; Plus, Remembering the Composer of “Annie”
In honor of The New Yorker’s centennial this year, the magazine’s staff writers are pulling out some classics from the long history of the publicatio…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Cécile McLorin Salvant Performs Live In-Studio
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
From “On the Media” ’s “Divided Dial”: “Fishing in the Night”
This special episode comes from “On the Media” ’s Peabody-winning series “The Divided Dial,” reported by Katie Thornton. You know A.M. and F.M. radio…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up
Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, began the end of Biden’s …
7 months, 4 weeks ago