NOEL KING, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia started a new season this summer examining the forces that shape who we are and who we will become. Today, Invisibilia co-host Alix Spiegel introduces us to a young man whose vision of his future self started at a d...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the new film Atomic Blonde, a British agent played by Charlize Theron shows up in 1989 Berlin just before the wall comes down. And she gets a very violent reception. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, ATOMIC BLONDE) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR:...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We've been checking in from time to time with Dan Kois, who's spending a year moving around the world with his wife and two daughters in a quest to find out from various cultures what makes a family. He joins us now to tell...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Do you still have old Polaroid pictures stashed away? Are they all washed out and faded? NPR's Neda Ulaby visited a museum exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken some 35 years ago that look as though they had just slid ou...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When Carolyn Murnick met her childhood best friend Ashley, it was like love at first sight. They were in elementary school. Ashley just moved into the area. And they became inseparable, sharing all their secrets and dreams....
NOEL KING, HOST: This week, comedian Jerry Seinfeld performed to a packed stadium in Montreal. He was in Canada as part of the annual comedy festival called Just For Laughs. Now, at the same time at the same festival about 10 minutes away, a group of...
NOEL KING, HOST: Imagine this - a TV show that sparks intense controversy, dozens of opinion pieces and tweets and radio segments without ever having aired, without even a single episode being written yet. That's what happened when HBO announced Game...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK. Have you heard the joke about Trump's White House? Every day is take your kid to work day - boom. While that joke is actually making the rounds, it references a real legal issue which has come back into focus because of...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK. Have you heard the joke about Trump's White House? Every day is take your kid to work day - boom. While that joke is actually making the rounds, it references a real legal issue which has come back into focus because of...
DON GONYEA, HOST: Port-au-Prince, Haiti is a city of more than 3 million people with no sewer system. International donors have spent millions of dollars on infrastructure meant to help the situation. But a multi-year plan to build sewage treatment p...
DON GONYEA, HOST: North Korea has launched its second intercontinental ballistic missile in less than a month. Nuclear experts say the latest test improved on the last one with a range that could reach most of the continental U.S. NPR's Seoul corresp...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Ten years ago, Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, argued forcefully that climate change should be a mainstream concern. The world seemed to hear that argument, though the current U.S. administration appears to have som...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Conservative media outlets face a dilemma in how to portray Russian influence in last year's election. Many have described the whole story as fake news cooked up by Democrats upset about last year's election loss trying to destro...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In Rwanda, a filmmaker who once told stories about genocide is now hoping to make romantic comedies and to build a film industry in the country. NPR's Eyder Peralta met him in the capital, Kigali. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: I ask Eri...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There's a new film out called Menashe about a widower who's trying to regain custody of his son. It's set in New York City, specifically in Borough Park, Brooklyn. And you will probably need the subtitles to follow it. It's in Yi...
