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'Deny, deflect, delay': Jeremy Strong channels Trump's mentor in 'The Apprentice'
Best-known for his role as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession, Jeremy Strong plays lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn in The Apprentice. Originally broadcast Oct. 10, 2024.
Some of Bob Dylan's most raucous rock comes to life on 'The 1974 Live Recordings'
by Ken Tucker
Dylan's 40-show 1974 tour with The Band produced a live double-album later that year. Now, the music available from that tour has increased dramatically with the release of a new 27-CD set.
Celebrating 25 years of 'The West Wing'
by Terry Gross
The critically acclaimed drama went behind the scenes at a fictional White House. We listen to archival interviews with show creator/writer Aaron Sorkin and actors Allison Janney and John Spencer.
Could 'uncommitted' voters sway the election?
by Tonya Mosley
New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz visited Michigan to understand the uncommitted movement, a group of pro-Palestinian, anti-war activists and voters who emerged during the 2024 Democratic primary.
Marking the centennial of jazz pianist Bud Powell
by Kevin Whitehead
Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. While earlier pianists played busy bass patterns, he helped establish a more fragmented, punctuating role for the left hand.
'WandaVision' spinoff is just as creative and magical as its predecessor
by David Bianculli
Kathryn Hahn stars as a witch who's lost her powers in Agatha All Along. To regain them, she has to assemble a witches’ coven and lead them on a journey down a magical, threatening witches’ road.
Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 -- and in the 2024 election too
by Terry Gross
Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017. Zebley is the co-author of Interference.
'The Penguin' is a darkly engrossing entry into the Batman cannon
by David Bianculli
With no costumes, no superpowers and no Batman, HBO's The Penguin is less like a comic book series than a crime drama — closer to The Sopranos than to the Batman movie from which it came.
Remembering Dan Morgenstern, a revered jazz historian, archivist and critic
by Terry Gross
Morgenstern, who died Sept. 7, directed the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies for 35 years, building a one-of-a-kind collection of recordings, memorabilia and writings. Originally broadcast in 2004.