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How HBO Max's 'Hacks' makes those hilariously relatable TV moments
Thursday, June 02, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jen Statsky, co-creator of HBO Max's Hacks, about its new season. The intergenerational comedy is about a comedian hired to help an another freshen up her jokes.
A couple describes returning to the streets of Shanghai after 2-month COVID lockdown
Wednesday, June 01, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly follows up with Ha Chuong and Nadav Davidai, a married couple who lives in Shanghai, about what it's like to return to life outside of their apartment.
In Britain, it took just one school shooting to pass major gun control
Wednesday, June 01, 2022
After the Dunblane massacre in Scotland left 16 students dead, parents organized to make sure it could never happen again. What can the U.S learn from them as we struggle to combat gun violence?
'Love on the Spectrum' shows what dating can be like for people with autism
Friday, May 27, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Love on the Spectrum creator Cian O'Clery and participant Kaelynn Partlow about what the show, which follows people on the autism spectrum as they date, means to them.
Insights on Uvalde from an activist who worked to make the U.K. safer
Friday, May 27, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mick North, founding member of Gun Control Network and the father of one of the children killed at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland.
A Sandy Hook Advisory Commission member reflects on the group's work and years since
Friday, May 27, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Ron Chivinski, a teacher at Newtown Middle School, about his work serving the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission after the mass shooting 10 years ago.
Haitians face horrifying violence as gangs run out of local authorities' control
Thursday, May 26, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald about the spike in gang violence in Haiti and what it means for schools and hospitals.
This photo of a professor wearing a mask went viral. So did his response to critics
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Professor Jon Levy went viral for wearing a mask during a Zoom call alone in his office. He has some thoughts about why.
Sandy Hook parent explains what Uvalde families need from us right now
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Wheeler, father to a 6-year-old who was killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about his reaction to the events in Uvalde, Texas.
Composer John Williams and cellist Yo-Yo Ma bring together 'A Gathering of Friends'
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
On a new album, the classical stars revisit the concerto Williams composed specifically for Ma, as well as some of Williams' most affecting film scores.
Professor who went viral for wearing a mask on a Zoom call explains his reasoning
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Jon Levy, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health, about the thread he wrote about wearing a mask.
Warsaw mayor pleads for a strategic plan as city continues to welcome refugees
Friday, May 20, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, about how his city is managing the influx of Ukrainian refugees. He says Warsaw's population went up by 15% since the outset of the conflict.
Jakub Orlinski, the breakdancing countertenor, explores his Polish roots
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.
Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography reveals how he lived
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography centers on how he lived
Thursday, May 12, 2022
NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
London Mayor's California visit could lead to decriminalization of cannabis in the UK
Thursday, May 12, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, while he's in California learning about cannabis laws with an eye to studying decriminalization of the substance in his city.
Remembering some of the 1 million dead from COVID
Thursday, May 12, 2022
To mark each of the nearly 1 million losses due to COVID, we've aired remembrances of those who died during the pandemic.
2 wildfires in New Mexico have merged into 1. And the weekend is bringing high winds
Friday, May 06, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with New Mexico's Gov. Luhan Grisham talks about a recent wildfire burning east of Santa Fe right now — the second-biggest in New Mexico's recorded history.
In South Korea, K-Pop fans have something to cheer about
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Although concerts have been back in South Korea since the beginning of the year, cheering was prohibited. With COVID restrictions lifting in South Korea, fans are finally allowed to cheer again.
Amputee Jacky Hunt-Broersma ran 104 marathons in 104 days — and may have set a record
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Hunt-Broersma picked up the sport after her left leg was amputated below the knee in 2001 and people told her she couldn't run. She set out to prove them wrong and never looked back.