'Obit' Documentary Follows Journalists Who Tell Lively Stories Of Death
NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews Obit, a documentary about obituary writing at The New York Times.
Arts
Listening Back To A 2009 Conversation With Director Jonathan Demme
The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who died Wednesday, directed The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob and Stop Making Sense. We'll hear a clip of his 2009 conversation with Dave Davies.
In 'The Circle', What We Give Up When We Share Ourselves
The film, based on the book by Dave Eggers, presents a dystopian view of where Silicon Valley is taking the world and captures the tech industry's failure to acknowledge the downside of its creations.
19th Century Princess And Cookbook Author Was Also Georgia's First Feminist
Princess Barbare Jorjadze is renowned for her cookbook. But she spent most of her life writing letters, poems and essays, to fight for a greater public role for Georgian women.
Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping
Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin says Hearst, who was abducted in 1974 and declared allegiance to her captors, "responded rationally to the circumstances." Originally broadcast Aug. 3, 2016.
Film Adaptation Of 'The Circle' Is Part Satire, Part Moralistic Melodrama
Emma Watson and Tom Hanks star in the remake of Dave Eggers' novel about a giant social media company. Critic David Edelstein says he found much of the acting overheated and the ending confusing.
Click-Bait And Switch
To get more people interested in history, we've written clickbait-style headlines for important historical events. Contestants ring in to guess the event — but what happens after that will SHOCK you.
Daylight Saving Time Travel
Fun fact! Phoenix, Arizona does not recognize Daylight Saving Time! So we wrote an audio quiz with clips from famous works involving time travel.
Penn Jillette: Fool Us Once
Ask Me Another rises from the ashes in Phoenix, AZ with Penn Jillette! He pulls back the curtain on his distaste for magic, his strictly working relationship with Teller, and his love of being fooled.
Rinse, Pete, Repeat
We invented alternate definitions for words that start with "re." If we said, "I GIVE UP trying to WRITE MY NAME at the bottom of this letter," you would say, "Re-sign" or "resign."