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A collection of the unexpected, somewhat random things we learned on the Lopate Show this week.

The nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday, May 1, and you can hear Leonard's conversations with many of this year’s nominees. (You can find a full list of the nominees here.) The awards will be presented on June 10.

Our weekly roundup of the quirky, profound, and unexpected things we heard on the Lopate Show this week.

A collection of the touching, funny, and off-beat things we heard on the air this week.

A collection of the odd, wonderful, and even funny things we learned on the Lopate Show this week.

A roundup of the interesting, strange and profound things we learned on the Lopate Show this week.

A collection of the random, profound, true, and funny things we heard on the show this week.

A roundup of the random, interesting, and unexpected things we learned on the show this week.

Federal court papers that were unsealed on Tuesday revealed that six suspected hackers who are affiliated with Lulzsec, part of the hacking collective Anonymous, had been arrested. The papers also revealed that one of them, Hector Xavier Monsegur, had pleaded guilty to 12 counts of criminal hacking and had been working as an informant for the FBI.

You can find out more about how Anonymous and LulzSec organize and carry out their attacks by listening to Leonard’s interviews earlier this year with Quinn Norton, who’s covered Anonymous for Wired Magazine’s Threat Level blog.

A collection random facts, insights, and impressions from the Lopate Show this week.

Every month, as part of the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club's e-newsletter, we're bringing an author interview from our archives. This month, listen to a rare 2002 conversation that Leonard had with Canadian writer Alice Munro. She had just published her short story collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

The Lopate Show's week in review.

A compilation of the random, unknown, and maybe important things we at the Lopate Show learned during the week of January 30.

The Lopate Show's week, in review.

The Leonard Lopate Show's week in review.

The Lopate Show's Week in Review

A producer explains how working on the Lopate Show makes managing her reading list pleasantly complicated.

A Lopate Show producer wanted to see what all the fuss about the McDonald's sandwich was about. She found out.

In the early 1970's, two high school students named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in an electronics class. The rest, as they say, is history. The pair went on to co-found Apple Computers, changing the way the world thought of the machines that few of us can do without. In 2006, Leonard spoke to Wozniak about founding Apple, prank-calling the pope, and his relationship with Jobs.

On June 12, the 65^th Annual Tony Awards took place. Leonard has spoken to a number of the winners of the last few months and you can listen to those conversations by following the links.