AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There are fresh twists today in the apparent assassination of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. The brother, Kim Jong Nam, died last week at an airport in Malaysia. Security footage showed that two women pois...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Many studies of new drugs simply languish. They don't attract enough patients, and they aren't completed. That slows medical progress. Well, here's a counterexample. So many volunteers signed up for a federally funded trial of un...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Academy Awards are Sunday night. But that's just what we call a peg for what I really want to talk about. This spring marks the 40th anniversary of The Godfather. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. Francis Ford Coppola's film is...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the 1950s and '60s if there were any children's books in a house, at least one of them was likely to be a Little Golden Book. With their gold spines and brightly colored pictures, they'd just beg to be grabbed off a shelf by a c...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Tune into the Oscars this weekend, you'll see dresses, jewelry and lots of false eyelashes. False eyelashes first appeared on the big screen a century ago. And today, they're considered an essential on red carpets, in weddings and...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A young woman meets a prince and falls in love - sounds like the start of an old-fashioned fairy tale, right? Well, in the movie A United Kingdom, it's the start of a diplomatic firestorm. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, A UNITED KINGDOM) JA...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Academy Awards are this Sunday. And the playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda is up for best original song for this. It's called How Far I'll Go from the film Moana. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, MOANA) AULI'I CRAVALHO: (As Moana,...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Democratic Party is in search of a leader. Now, often, that means finding the next inspirational figure to run as a presidential nominee. But in their current state, Democrats are beginning with electing someone to chair the D...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And the mystery surrounding the airport killing of the North Korean leader's half brother is getting even more bizarre and even more grim now. Malaysia has announced initial lab results that show a chemical weapon was used in the...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Russia, it's Defender of the Fatherland Day. This day was known in Soviet times as Red Army Day. So yesterday on the eve of the holiday, Russia's defense minister visited the Parliament to boast about the Russian military, inclu...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about questions. So to get us started, here's a question. MICHAEL STEVENS: What if everyone jumped at once... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RAZ: That is, what if everyo...
GUY RAZ, HOST: Hey, Naomi, can you just quickly introduce yourself? NAOMI ORESKES: I am Naomi Oreskes. I'm the professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. RAZ: So it's fair to sa...
GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, the Spirit of Inquiry, why the question is often more important than the answer and what happens when one question leads to another? KEVIN JONES: That's how every medical interview that I have with a patient begins -...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, ideas about the Spirit Of Inquiry. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RAZ: And when it comes to the unknown on any subject, we're all kind of trained to seek out experts. LIZ COLE...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here in Southern California, Oscars night is almost here. And a beloved, Oscar-winning classic nears 75 years since its premiere. Casablanca, the World War II romance about the fight for love and glory, brought glory to Warner Bro...
