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Robert Durst was arrested in 2015, the night before HBO televised the final episode of The Jinx. He was later convicted of murder, and died in prison in 2022.

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The first 'Jinx' ended with a hot mic murder admission. 'Part Two' shocks as well

2:27pm April 19, 2024

by David Bianculli

The Jinx ended with Robert Durst, a wealthy man suspected of multiple murders, making self-incriminating statements on a hot mic. Part Two picks up where the original left off: arrest and conviction.

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Podcast tile art for Track Change, from VPM; Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery, from Connecticut Public Radio; The Howl, from NCPR; Sea Change, from WWNO & WRKF; Salmon Wars, from OPB; ¿Quién Are We?, from Colorado Public Radio.

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From jailhouse melodies to vanishing salmon, rejuvenate your listening history

8:00am April 19, 2024

Enjoy the spring bloom, get outside, listen to a new podcast! The NPR One team has gathered a few returning favorites as well as some fresh releases from across public media.

What's going to explode in space? Find out in the quiz

5:39am April 19, 2024

by Holly J. Morris

In other news, the WNBA draft was haute, a star system is hot and a Nike uniform was deemed neither haute nor hot.

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Amateur art detectives used modern tools and the law to return stolen artifacts

6:12pm April 18, 2024

by Erika Beras

Thirty years ago, two copper gilded Bhairav masks were stolen from a temple in Nepal. The mask's owners thought they were gone for good – but they ended up in two American museums.

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Salman Rushdie tells of the violent attack that nearly killed him in memoir 'Knife'

5:56pm April 18, 2024

In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie writes about the young man who leapt from the audience and stabbed and almost killed him in August of 2022. He also describes his love for his wife, Eliza.

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What makes a good courtroom drama

5:32pm April 18, 2024

by Linda Holmes

With former president Trump's real-life legal drama unfolding in New York, here are some of Hollywood's best courtroom dramas for some low-stakes intrigue.

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Gabrielle and Louis (Léa Seydoux and George MacKay) meet in 1910 Paris, 2014 Los Angeles and again in 2044 in The Beast.

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'The Beast' jumps from 1910, to 2014, to 2044, tracking fear through the ages

2:00pm April 18, 2024

by Justin Chang

This wildly original adaptation of the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle follows human alienation and anxiety, asking why, in every era, we disengage from life and the people around us.

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Journalist says we're 'basically guinea pigs' for a new form of industrialized food

1:38pm April 18, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser says mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated and sometimes dangerous. His new documentary is Food, Inc. 2.

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'When I Think of You' could be a ripped-from-the-headlines Hollywood romance

1:07pm April 18, 2024

by Carole V. Bell

Myah Ariel's debut is like a fizzy, angsty mash-up of Bolu Babalola and Kennedy Ryan as the challenges of doing meaningful work in Hollywood threaten two young lovers' romantic reunion.

Conan O'Brien dresses as a Viking in Norway.

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'Conan O'Brien Must Go' is side-splitting evidence of life beyond late night TV

12:16pm April 18, 2024

by Eric Deggans

As the late night TV genre crumbles under sagging viewership and the decline of traditional media, O'Brien's renaissance provides an example for the future.