MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today... (SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI'S GONNA FLY NOW) MARTIN: If you are a fan of boxing or blockbusters or both, then I don't need to tell you that that is the theme song to the 1976 film Rocky, which won several Oscars including B...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Norman is a man in a nice camel coat who always pops up on the streets of Manhattan, dropping names, handing out cards, promising to connect you. But why? What's his angle? Who is he really? Norman stops a runner in Central Park to...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One of the world's most lauded novelists has produced her first collection of short stories in decades. The Purple Swamp Hen And Other Stories is by Penelope Lively, the Man Booker Prize winner for Moon Tiger and the best-selling H...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One of the world's most lauded novelists has produced her first collection of short stories in decades. The Purple Swamp Hen And Other Stories is by Penelope Lively, the Man Booker Prize winner for Moon Tiger and the best-selling H...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For a third year, an Arkansas town is host to a Hollywood-style film festival started by Gina Davis, the Oscar-winning actress. The Bentonville Film Festival aims to headline creative works by women and filmmakers of color. Opening...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 opens in theaters this weekend. The film is on track for a $150 million opening, so reviews are probably irrelevant. But NPR's Bob Mondello has one anyway. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAX...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: More secret money is finding its way into politics, this time at the state level. Perhaps even B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music, has made a contribution. Nonprofit groups have popped up around the country affiliated with...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Consumers in North Korea can now buy a local version of Spam, not to mention Oreo-like cookies from Vietnam. And in the capital Pyongyang at least, everyone's looking down at their cell phones. These are things that journalist Je...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now, here's a story about two countries, three men and a skyscraper. NPR's Peter Overby looks at questions of how the Trump Tower in Manila might affect ties between the United States and the Philippines. PETER OVERBY, BYLINE: One...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A swarm of potential stingers were unleashed on Washington, D.C., this week. This is not a political statement. A swarm of bees from one of the two hives atop NPR headquarters buzzed over the streets as they followed their queen ou...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: About three-quarters of private sector workers get paid sick leave, but there is no federal law requiring employers to pay for sick time. In recent years, dozens of states and local governments have passed their own laws, bills tha...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Lea Michele is truly a Broadway baby. She was 8 years old when she was cast as young Cosette in Les Miz. Then came Ragtime, Fiddler On The Roof, Spring Awakening before she became Rachel Berry on the hit TV series Glee which had so...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The new interior secretary is keeping a promise to travel to the rural West and talk to people who are concerned about large national monuments that protect federal public land. Ryan Zinke's first stop is the new Bears Ears Natio...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades men without much education could make a very good living by mining coal. The loss of those jobs has stung as the coal industry has declined. Renewable power, especially solar power, is now where jobs are. So we wondered...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: French voters are going to pick their next president on Sunday. They are choosing between far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and a centrist newcomer, Emmanuel Macron. He's a former economy minister. He's seen as pro-business. He sa...
