New Museum Invites Visitors To 'Engage' With The Bible KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The newest museum in Washington D.C. is dedicated to a single book. The Museum of the Bible opens next week. It's a $500 million project privately funded. It puts interactive...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: David Yazbek's mother is Jewish, his father Lebanese. In his newest Broadway musical, The Band Visit, (ph) Mr. Yazbek wanted to write about the meeting of those two cultures. And as Jeff Lunden reports, his show focuses on the comm...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Paul Hollywood is all about the bake. He grew up in a flat that always smelled of bread above his father's bakery in Merseyside, became a baker in his teens, then head baker at five-star London hotels, then off to resorts in Cyprus...
In New Novel, 'Martian' Author Andy Weir Builds A Colony On The Moon SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Life on the moon is no bed of roses. The coffee's weak because water boils at low temperature. The food is rank because it's hard and expensive to grow much more...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Browsing through a weighty new anthology called The Annotated African American Folktales is a journey across space and time. In one chapter called Defiance and Desire, there's a section devoted to flying Africans where there's a...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The Country Music Association Awards ceremony was Wednesday night, and people are still talking about the show because of what wasn't said that night. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) CARRIE UNDERWOOD: Now, Brad, I don't know if...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In his latest film, Kenneth Branagh becomes a character who is known to a lot of people - at least a lot of people who read Agatha Christie crime novels. His name is Hercule Poirot. He's a mastermind detective who has appeared in...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Trump's next and last stop in his Asia tour will be Manila. That visit is seen as a chance to hit a kind of reset button on the long-standing alliance with the Philippines. President Obama's relationship with President Duterte of t...
Scientists Start To Tease Out The Subtler Ways Racism Hurts Health SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Roughly a third of Latinos in America report they've experienced discrimination in their daily lives, according to a poll recently released by NPR, the Robert Wood...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Emergency relief efforts are ending in Puerto Rico. Army officials say they are beginning to draw down federal troops. Roads are cleared across the island, many supermarkets and stores have reopened, and work is being done to reb...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And not too long ago, painter and sculptor Titus Kaphar was visiting the Natural History Museum in New York with his kids. TITUS KAPHAR: That's right - two kids, two boys. RAZ: And how old...
GUY RAZ, HOST: So can you tell me about the - how the favela painting project started. Like, did you guys just go to Rio and - you know, to sort of check them out? DRE URHAHN: No, it was actually different. Jeroen - he had won a competition to make a...
GUY RAZ, HOST: What are you doing in New York? EL SEED: Actually, I came to meet some people for, like, a future project that's going to happen in 2018. But it's too secret. I can't talk about it. RAZ: Oh, you - come on, little bit - just a... EL SEE...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today - ideas about the subtle power of art to transform the way each of us sees the world. MAGDA SAYEG: I say something similar to that. I always say, like, art won't solv...
GUY RAZ, HOST: When can you remember a time when you played music for somebody, and it had a profound change on what was going on around around them? BENJAMIN ZANDER: It's hard for me to remember a time when I played music when it didn't have that ef...
