LEILA FADEL, HOST: What does a woman in Hollywood do when she's not feeling the two-dimensional mom role she's being offered? ANDREA SAVAGE: The harried mom role or the awful mom role who hates her kids - why does a funny female have to be relegated...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been checking in every so often with Boyan Slat. He's the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. That's an environmental organization he founded to develop technology to clean up plastic in the ocean. Now, we spoke with Mr. Slat back in...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons has built a career on exploring the lesser-known corners of American music. A founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, he released his second solo album, Black Cowboys, this...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: In the last fiscal year, the Army fell short of its recruiting goal by 6,500 people. In part, it's driven by the 50-year lows in unemployment numbers. Often, young recruits join when they don't have a job prospect or money for coll...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: We've been hearing a lot about overflowing trash bins and unsafe conditions at national parks due to the partial government shutdown. But other critical works on public lands has also stopped. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports. KIRK SIEGL...
Not Out To Lunch: Businesses That Rely On Federal Workers Suffer The Shutdown MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk a bit more about the partial shutdown of the federal government, which is entering its third week. We've talked earlier this hour a...
NOEL KING, HOST: Singer, producer and songwriter R. Kelly is one of the bestselling RB artists. But a new docuseries from Lifetime that debuts tonight called Surviving R. Kelly alleges he has a darker side. It features the stories of women who say Ke...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The number of women working behind the camera in Hollywood today remains small. And that makes the career of Lois Weber all the more remarkable. She directed at least 138 movies, either shorts or feature length, in the silent film...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: I don't think Louis C.K. is funny. That's the worst that can be said about a comedian, not that they're offensive or outrageous. Great comics can offend and outrage people. But a comic who dares to be offensive but isn't funny is j...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Chigozie Obioma's latest novel has an unusual narrator. Chinonso raises chickens and is profoundly alone in life till he sees a young woman who's about to hurl herself off a bridge. She is Ndali, who's despondent from a broken enga...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Mesha Maren's novel Sugar Run opens as Jodi McCarty is getting turned out of prison on parole after serving 18 years for manslaughter. She shot her girlfriend when she was 17, so Jodi has lived most of her life in prison and must n...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: California's largest utility could be on the hook for billions of dollars in liability damages from deadly wildfires these last two years. The fires left more than 130 people dead, wiped out thousands of homes and businesses and...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: New York City has started a new kind of program aimed at supporting and training and expanding freelance workforce. The Freelancers Hub is what it's called. It offers classes and shared office space, along with tax and legal advi...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today's StoryCorps is a love letter to the written word. Alagappa Rammohan has amassed thousands of books. Rammohan immigrated from India to the United States in 1962. He came to StoryCorps in Chicago with his daughter. PARU VENK...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The government shutdown grinds on over funding for President Trump's border wall. But meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to construct or upgrade border fencing, some 160 miles along the Arizona and...
