KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: This week, The New Yorker released an audio recording of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. He's heard trying to lure a model into his hotel room. She doesn't want to go. The tape was recorded by the New York police as part of a sting...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It is a big week for movie biographies. Opening today are fact-based films about a Supreme Court justice, two semi-famous authors, an infamous artist and a man who refused to let polio defeat him. Critic Bob Mondello says that Ho...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You know, we don't do a lot of cookbooks on this show. Hugh Acheson's latest cookbook fits right in. It doesn't show much cooking. The chef is shown reading in a lawn chair, taking a hot bath, even playing the cello - at least hold...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Lindsey Fitzharris' new book is called The Butchering Art. It is not about carving meat for cooking. It's about surgery the way it used to be done. And it's about one surgeon in particular who changed the way it was done - Joseph...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Travis Meadows describes himself as an orphan who turned into a preacher, a preacher turned into a songwriter, a songwriter that turned into a drunk, a drunk that is learning to be a human being. He's known for making music of dark...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The recent shooting in Las Vegas has sparked some soul searching, certainly more debate about guns in this country. And we have a new poll out this morning from NPR and Ipsos. And it reveals overwhelming support for various gun co...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: House Speaker Paul Ryan says he favors regulations against bump stocks - you know, those attachments to semiautomatic rifles that makes them fire at the rate of a machine gun. Speaker Ryan says he favors restrictions after bump s...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The United States is trying again to force the Taliban to negotiate in Afghanistan through 16 years of war - 16 years as of this month - that has been the hardest part. President Trump's new strategy for the war called for sendin...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The dream of gene therapy took a big step forward today. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously endorsed the first gene therapy for an inherited disorder. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein is with us now f...
GUY RAZ, HOST: So we've just been hearing from Elizabeth about how easy it is to manipulate memories through the power of suggestion. But what if we could take it one step further? (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RAZ: So, Steve, first of all, introduce yourself...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. So these days, our attention is pretty much up for grabs. (SOUNDBITE OF TYPING ON SMARTPHONE, SNAPCHAT ALERTS) RAZ: And the stuff that's trying the hardest to get it... (SOUNDBITE OF TYPIN...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about manipulation, about truth and lies and what happens when sometimes it's hard for people to see the difference. ALI VELSHI: I think manipulation is trying...
GUY RAZ, HOST: When most people think of memory, they think of like a hard drive and our brain that just records things and etches it into our brain. ELIZABETH LOFTUS: Yes. RAZ: And from time to time, we can recall those events with a fair amount of...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, when you watch a Jackie Chan movie, come on, you know exactly what you're in for. (SOUNDBITE OF FIGHTING SCENE) GREENE: Which is why, when I got the chance to talk to him, I heard about this fact, and I was like, really?...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A new play in New York centers on Palestinian militants who hid from the Israeli army for over a month in 2002 inside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that The Siege, not surprisingly, is controversial...
