SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Knives Out is a human jigsaw puzzle of whodunit - a rich novelist named Harlan Thrombey found dead in a divan upstairs, scheming, back-stabbing family members downstairs quarrelling over the spoils, an appealing family attendant an...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Pope Francis has opened the door to the possibility of female deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. But women are already working in ministry - some officially and some without permission from the church. St. Louis Public Radio's S...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now time for StoryCorps. Ten years ago, Sandy Baker left her troubled marriage, scraped together what money she could and checked into a motel with her teenage daughter, Ashley. They were homeless for the nex...
Clive James, Writer, TV Host And Cultural Critic, Dies At 80 ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fiction is life with the dull bits left out - that's just one of the many clever observations of the writer, TV host and cultural critic Clive James. James died at his ho...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Climate change is making sea levels rise. That's become very clear this fall in some areas along the East Coast, where high tide levels are breaking records. In many areas, there's been flooding during so-called king tides - time...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here with our poet in residence, Kwame Alexander. Hello, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER: Hey there, Rachel. How you doing? MARTIN: I'm pretty good. How are you doing? ALEXANDER: I'm super. MARTIN: You're super. You're always super. ALEXA...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Labor does not come cheap in cities with astronomical rents, even in the service industry. So some restaurant and bar owners are cutting costs with technology, like devices that allow patrons to serve their own drinks. NPR's Neda...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In her debut feature film, screenwriter Lena Waithe has written an odyssey set in the Black Lives Matter era. Queen Slim is about a couple on the run after a routine traffic stop gone wrong. They kill a white police officer in se...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Rachael Ray is taping her talk show at her studio in Manhattan, and one of her guests has just gotten a makeover. The woman is overwhelmed by her transformation. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, RACHAEL RAY) RACHAEL RAY: Do you like...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the new movie Atlantics, a group of young men set off on a boat from the coast of Senegal in West Africa. They are fed up with their lives and have made the fateful decision to sail to Europe. But Atlantics is not a movie abou...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers - those words alone... TOM HANKS: That's all you need to say (laughter). SIMON: You know, that's more or less what follows in this intro, Tom. But, you know, I earn my living by writing these things. HANK...
NOEL KING, HOST: Millions of Americans live with chronic pain. Increasingly, the guidance from medical groups and doctors is to experiment with treatments other than opioids - alternative therapies. Now a new study published in the journal JAMA Inter...
NOEL KING, HOST: The writer Lindy West made her name with these hilarious, scalding critiques of American culture. Her 2016 memoir, Shrill, was a best-seller. It's also now a series on Hulu. In a new book, West takes on misogyny, asks what did the #M...
A Smart Home Neighborhood: Residents Find It Enjoyably Convenient Or A Bit Creepy STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There's a new kind of community about an hour south of Amazon's headquarters in Seattle, Wash. What makes it a new kind of community is all the Ama...
Who Will Decide On The Dalai Lama's Successor His Supporters Or Beijing? LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to the snowy Himalayas, where an international drama is playing out over the soul of one elderly man - the Dalai Lama. Tibetan Buddhists belie...
