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Episode 7: The Mayor and the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell
Episode 7
High school students in Queens mount a fraught election simulation, Salt Lake City’s openly gay mayor-elect talks about the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell speaks to David Remnick about writing in hi…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
Episode 6: Two Writers and a Rock Star Onstage
Episode 6
Two interviews recorded live at the 2015 New Yorker Festival: Patti Smith talks with David Remnick about how her writing and music are intertwined, with a live performance of “Because the Night”; the…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
Episode 5: City Slickers and Soul Food
Episode 5
George Booth started drawing cartoons when he was three-and-a-half years old. (His first was a race car stuck in the mud.) Now nearly ninety, he’s been contributing to The New Yorker for over forty-f…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
Episode 4: Surfing Lessons in a Warming World
Episode 4
What is it like to grow up with twenty siblings? When Sue and Hector Badeau considered the lives of children in foster homes, which are often traumatic, they felt that had to do something, and eventu…
Published on 10 years ago
Episode 3: Hacking for the Masses, and Gloria Steinem
Episode 3
The hacker group Lizard Squad ruined Christmas for a lot of people last year when it hacked into Sony and Microsoft servers and rendered new PlayStations and Xboxes temporarily unusable for online ga…
Published on 10 years ago
Episode Two: Amy Schumer, Jorge Ramos, and the Search for a Lost Father
Episode 2
Amy Schumer began her career playing a deranged, rich party girl. With three seasons of her Peabody Award-winning series Inside Amy Schumer now complete, Schumer has since shifted to a more deliberat…
Published on 10 years ago
Episode One: Boarding Call
Episode 1
In The New Yorker Radio Hour’s début episode, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of “Between the World and Me,” about the profound influence of James Baldw…
Published on 10 years ago
Coming Soon: The New Yorker Radio Hour
One of the nation’s most celebrated magazines comes together with New York’s flagship public radio station to create a new weekly radio program and podcast. What’s it all about?
Published on 10 years ago