'Wait Wait' for December 7, 2024: With Not My Job guest Jim Gaffigan
This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guest Jim Gaffigan and panelists Adam Burke, Negin Farsad, and Adam Felber
Arts
Fandom rules social media's cultural landscape in 2024
Annual trends reports from YouTube, TikTok and Spotify reveal how fans had an outsize impact on entertainment, culture and politics this year.
Notre Dame organist returns for the cathedral's grand reopening
Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral's longest-serving organist. Just days before the church's gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.
'Moana 2' songwriters made history as 1st all-female team to lead a Disney soundtrack
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear made history as the youngest composers and only all-woman songwriting team for a Disney animated film with Moana 2.
'The Return' is also a reunion, for Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes about The Return, an adaptation of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. It's their first time on screen together in almost 30 years.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the movie Mississippi Masala, the series Like Water for Chocolate and Hasan Minhaj's new special.
The spies on TV this fall are juggling work and family – just like the rest of us
In a wave of fall TV shows, including The Day of the Jackal, The Agency, and Netflix's new Keira Knightley series Black Doves, spies don't just answer to their intelligence agencies – they've also got families at home.
USDA orders testing across nation's milk supply amid rising bird flu cases
The virus has spread to over 710 dairy herds across 15 states, with California reporting the highest number of infections. At least 58 people have been infected with bird flu, including one child.
Werner Herzog says it's not good to circle 'your own navel' but wrote a memoir anyway
The German filmmaker reflects on his unusual life and the curiosity that has fueled his career in the memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All. Originally broadcast Oct. 25, 2023.
In 'Queer,' Daniel Craig is outstanding as a fictionalized William S. Burroughs
In this adaptation of Burroughs' autobiographical novel, Craig plays an American who falls hard for a younger man in 1950s Mexico City. It's a singular performance, but also a deeply human one.