NPR’s Terry Gross: inquisitive, incisive... savage? One of media’s best interviewers was interviewed herself on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and when Fallon asked her, “Do you have any stories where an interview just didn’t go well?” she shared this lovely anecdote:
Most good cosmopolitan liberals are familiar with StoryCorps for the enlightening, heartwarming, and unexpected audio stories they present on NPR and elsewhere. Because the universe has a sense of humor, StoryCorps is now presenting something new: An anti-union campaign.
My Friend Cayla is a scary doll—not an actual friend of mine named Cayla—who reminds me of the orphan from the movie Orphan starring Vera Farmiga for two reasons: 1) because they both wear chokers, and 2) because you should never trust them. Not only are Cayla and Esther (who’s actually a murderous 33-year-old lunatic…
NPR published an interview Monday morning with President Obama, wherein Steve Inskeep delicately asked about the “anxieties” that some American voters have about him. That led to an interesting discussion about support for leading candidate Donald Trump, a bowl of chili overturned into a gas station toilet.
Michele Norris, the host-turned-special correspondent of All Things Considered—and the first black woman to host the program—is leaving the company to continue to grow The Race Card Project, the Peabody Award-winning enterprise she started to explore American experiences of race.
The Washington Post reports that Diane Rehm—the 79-year-old host of WAMU’s The Diane Rehm Show—will be retiring after the 2016 election.
Niecy Nash, the actress and host who shot to fame thanks to gigs on Reno 911! and Clean House, has been one of the most charming people on the small screen for over a decade. But in addition to being a delight on-camera (she gives one of the best, most delicate performances on TV in HBO’s Getting On), Nash is equally…
While promoting her upcoming memoir Reckless: My Life as a Pretender on NPR Tuesday morning, Chrissy Hynde decided to give her publicists days and days of headaches by ending an interview instructing listeners not to buy the dang book after all.
To follow up its popular first season that revolved around the trial of Adnan Syed, the second season of Serial will reportedly focus on former prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl.
Terry Gross: My guest today is Sarah Miller, whose new book, BISON SELFIES, which she wrote about bison selfies, comes out next week—very timely, as this summer there have been five bison attacks, none of them fatal, I might add, in Yellowstone National Park. Sarah, welcome to Fresh Air.
This past weekend, Kimberly Noel Kardashian West was on Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, a program produced by WBEZ and NPR and broadcast nationwide. She was pretty funny. Also pretty funny: the long-time listeners of the show who hated that she was on it.
Kim Kardashian is a producer, model, internet-breaker and now the published author of a book of selfies. She’s also an expert on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, as she proved on this week’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me, which she completely charmed her way through.
Let's take a trip back to 1997, when Tina Fey was performing improv as part of Chicago's Second City. In this video, Fey imitates the calm, soothing tones of a WBEZ host (named Lynn Mahevic) who waxes poetic about the cultural significance of the banana and "its place in religion and history and art—its resonance in…
This morning on NPR's Weekend Edition, Bill Cosby and his wife Camille joined Scott Simon to talk about their extensive collection of African art. Simon then proceeded to ask Cosby about the several rape and sexual assault allegations surrounding the comedian, and let's just say, it didn't go—well, it didn't go…
Do you experience anxiety upon realizing that you're almost out of Radiolab podcasts? Does every spring cleaning involve discarding at least three complimentary tote bags? Have you ever had a sex dream about Kai Ryssdal (and are you able to spell Kai Ryssdal's name without Googling it)? Then you, public radio addict,…
In the spring, NPR and This American Life's Planet Money started a Kickstarter to raise money for their t-shirt project, a reporting enterprise that would have them help design a t-shirt "and then follow that t-shirt around the world as it gets made." Though the piece has a few chapters, the most striking portion is…
People who grew up listening to public radio are a rare breed, in that they're obsessed with "their" radio hosts. Ask anyone in radio about the responses they get when people figure out who they are in public and they'll tell you stories of people freaking out upon meeting them –which is especially funny, given that…
In May, NPR reporter Ailsa Chang wrote a piece about Kristen Gillibrand entitled "Focus On Women, Families Propels New York's Sen. Gillibrand" intended to discuss her rising star power in the Senate and her potential presidential prospects. What it actually discussed in an entirely unproductive manner was how the…
