MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Remember Queer Eye For The Straight Guy? For those who may have missed its four-year run on the Bravo TV network beginning in 2003, the premise was this - a group of chatty, personable gay guys descended on their straight-guy sub...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Remember Queer Eye For The Straight Guy? For those who may have missed its four-year run on the Bravo TV network beginning in 2003, the premise was this - a group of chatty, personable gay guys descended on their straight-guy sub...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: They've made 40 trips around the sun. And that's the title of a new collection of greatest hits going back to 1978 by the pop superstars Toto. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, HOLD THE LINE) TOTO: (Singing) Hold the line. Love isn't alw...
(SOUNDBITE OF SAMBA PARADES) LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Ah, yes. Carnival season is underway in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro's traditional samba parades opened yesterday and will continue for the next few days. Millions of Brazilians are also celebrating w...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Terese Marie Mailhot started her new memoir Heart Berries while she was in a mental institution, where she committed herself after a breakdown. The pages bleed with the pain of mental illness, substance abuse and her family...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, I'll be honest with you, we debated long and hard about how to introduce this next conversation. It's Black History Month, so this is a time when a lot of people remember firsts such as Thurgood Marshall, the first...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Rachel Brand, the No. 3 person at the Justice Department, will be leaving her post. Her departure is notable because she would be in line to replace Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's supervising the special counsel prob...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Let's talk now about Eve Ensler. Of course, she's best known for her groundbreaking play The Vagina Monologues. More about that later. Right now, her one-woman show, In The Body Of The World, based on her memoir, is playing off Bro...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A dog named Abby is back from the dead. Abby, a black lab mix, wandered away from her home in Apollo, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh, ten years ago. Abby's owner Debra Suierveld and her children looked for their dog but couldn't f...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A Broadway revival opens this month - the landmark two-part theater event Angels In America. The plays, which deal with AIDS and homosexuality, have been produced and published and taught all over the world in the last quarte...
In 'Catnip,' Love And Loss Sketched Out In Cat Cartoons SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Catnip: A Love Story by Michael Korda is a book drawn from scribbles that amused in a time of anxiety. Michael Korda's wife, Margaret Korda, was diagnosed with a malignant bra...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One year ago today, President Trump promised that a new era was beginning at the Justice Department. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It is with great pride - very great pride - that I say these words to...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today, an early Valentine's Day card from StoryCorps. This is a conversation between two senior citizens. One is 100 years old, the other a sprightly 72. Both are veterans. One served in World War II, the othe...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Living in Atlanta in the late 1970s, early '80s, we heard this question every night. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? KELLY: Do you know where your chi...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Living in Atlanta in the late 1970s, early '80s, we heard this question every night. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? KELLY: Do you know where your chi...
