World News In France, The #MeToo Movement Has Yet To Live Up To Women's HopesNPR - Eleanor BeardsleyAs a budding young soprano in the 1990s, Anne-Sophie Schmidt was selected to sing the lead role in an opera conducted by the renowned Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit and the National Orchestra of France.
World News A Photographer's Search For The Vanishing Stars Of Bengali Folk TheaterNPR - Amr AlfikyPhotographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, a style of folk theater, was popular during his childhood in West Bengal. But 10 years after moving out, Bose returned home to find that Jatra was longer
Culture Buckle Up For This 'Million Mile Road Trip'NPR - Jason SheehanThere's an alien under the bed and another on the lawn. Zoe Snapp has a pearl in her pocket that's really a transdimensional gateway, opened solely by playing a particular riff on her trumpet. A few blocks
Politics Companies That Rely On Census Data Worry Citizenship Question Will HurtNPR - Hansi Lo WangSome critics of the citizenship question the Trump administration wants to add to the 2020 census are coming from a group that tends to stay away from politically heated issues — business leaders. From
Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg Dismisses President Trump's Acceptance Of His MarriageNPR - Tamara KeithPete Buttigieg isn't giving President Trump much credit for saying the South Bend, Ind. mayor's marriage to a man is "absolutely fine" and "good." "That's nice," Buttigieg said dismissively in an interview
Play buttonEurovision 2019 Duncan Laurence From The Netherlands Wins Eurovision 2019NPR - Anastasia TsioulcasSinger Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands has emerged victorious at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. The finals were held Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Israel. The 25-year-old Laurence won the international
Culture From The Gridiron To Multigrid Algorithms In 'Mind And Matter'NPR - Michel MartinHere's a puzzle: Do the qualities that allow a man to block 300lb bodies every day have anything to do with the qualities that allow the same person to solve three-body problems late into the night? Stumped?
Lee Zeldin Escalating U.S.-Iran Tensions: Trump's Foreign PolicyNPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lee Zeldin, a Republican congressman from New York, about what the week's events tells us about the president's approach to foreign policy. It's been an eventful week in
Politics Trump Biographer Interprets President's Foreign Policy Through His Business MindNPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with Donald Trump biographer Timothy O'Brien about what the president's approach to business and trade tells us about how he handles international affairs. Now we're going to
Politics Who Is 'Heartbeat Bill' Author Janet Porter?NPRNPR's Michel Martin talks to Jessica Glenza, a health reporter for The Guardian, about Janet Porter, an activist who helped write a number of anti-abortion laws, including in Alabama. Now we'd like to
Vigilantism By Night, Oakland's 'Pothole Vigilanties' Repair Damaged StreetsNPR - Sonja HutsonAn anonymous group has emerged in Oakland called the "Pothole Vigilantes". They go out in the dead of night to fill in potholes around the Bay Area. They strike under the cover of darkness, delivering
Apollo Missions 50 Years Later, Looking Back At Apollo 10, Precursor To The Moon LandingNPRIt's the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 10 mission. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with General Thomas Stafford, who led the Apollo 10 mission. It's been nearly half a century since Neil Armstrong took that
Abortion 2 Women Discuss Their Shifting Views On Abortion RightsNPRTwo women share why they changed their opinion on abortion rights. Now we're going to try to take a different approach on a story that you've been hearing about all week. Over the course of the week, states
Joe Biden 2020 Campaign Catch-UpNPR - Domenico MontanaroFormer Vice President Joe Biden held a major campaign rally in Philadelphia on Saturday, with the Democratic field largely set and President Trump coming to Pennsylvania on Monday. We're going to turn
Scott Morrison Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison Scores Surprise Election VictoryNPR - Shannon Van SantAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison won re-election on Saturday, stunning pollsters who had anticipated his defeat for several months. Morrison championed working-class economic stability during
News Austria's Vice Chancellor Quits After Video Surfaces Of Meeting With Russian InvestorNPR - Sasha IngberAustria's vice chancellor has resigned after German media published a video that purportedly showed him offering government contracts to a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch, in exchange media
NPR PredictionsNPROur panelists predict, now that Game of Thrones is coming to an end, what will be HBO's next big hit show. Now, panel, what will be HBO's next big hit show we'll all get obsessed with? Roy Blount Jr. BLOUNT
Who's Bill This TimeNPRBill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: "Bull in a China Shop," "Name of Thrones" and "Real Chahmahs." BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR quiz.
John Wick Not My Job: We Quiz Actor Lance Reddick On Hotel ConciergesNPRIn the John Wick saga, actor Lance Reddick plays Charon, the elegant concierge at a mysterious hotel frequented by assassins. We've invited him to play a game called "Anything you need, sir." Three questions
Aer Lingus Panel QuestionsNPRDon't Come Fly With Me, Rhyme of the Ancient Smoked Salmon. BILL KURTIS: From NPR WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We're playing this week with Adam
Bill de Blasio Lightning Fill In The BlankNPRNow onto our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as he or she can. The correct answer is worth two Bill,
U.S. Navy Bluff The Listener:NPROur panelists read three stories about a new type of military achievement, only one of which is true. BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. I'm
Bedbugs LimericksNPRBill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Uber-Shhh, Jurassic Rash and Agent Auto. Coming up, it's Lightning Fill in the Blank. But first, it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme. If
Culture Language Has Magic In 'The Candle And The Flame'NPR - Caitlyn PaxsonA fantastical silk road city comes to life in Nafiza Azad's richly detailed debut novel, The Candle and the Flame. Fatima works as a messenger in the melting pot of Noor, a bustling desert city where and
Masculinity Where's Masculinity Headed? Men's Groups And Therapists Are TalkingNPR - Alan YuSean Jin is 31 and says he'd not washed a dish until he was in his sophomore year of college. "Literally my mom and my grandma would ... tell me to stop doing dishes because I'm a man and I shouldn't doing
Howard Stern Fresh Air Weekend: Howard Stern; Phoebe Waller-BridgeNPRFresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers,
Tariffs For One U.S. Bike-Maker, Tariffs Are A Mixed BagNPR - Yuki NoguchiZakary Pashak is a rare breed. His company, Detroit Bikes, is one of the very few American bicycle makers. Most bikes come from China. At times, Pashak endured ridicule at trade shows. "I'd get kind of
Eurovision 2019 Eurovision 2019 ConcludesNPREurope's favorite music competition, the Eurovision Song Contest, concludes tonight. NPR's Scott Simon talks with William Lee Adams, founder of the Eurovision fan site Wiwibloggs, about the contest. It's
Microsoft Microsoft Updates Old System To Respond To New ThreatNPRNPR's Scott Simon speaks with Brian Barrett, editor at Wired magazine, about the latest Windows XP patch and how an operating system abandoned by Microsoft is still used by millions worldwide. Microsoft
