Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Weekend Edition Sunday debuted on January 18, 1987, with host Susan Stamberg. Two years later, Liane Hansen took over the host chair, a position she held for 22 years. In that time, Hansen interviewed movers and shakers in politics, science, business and the arts. Her reporting travels took her from the slums of Cairo to the iron mines of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; from the oyster beds on the bayou in Houma, La., to Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park; and from the kitchens of Colonial Williamsburg, Va., to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
In January 2012, Rachel Martin began hosting the program. Previously she served as NPR National Security Correspondent and was part of the team that launched NPR's experimental morning news show, The Bryant Park Project. She has also been the NPR religion correspondent and foreign correspondent based in Berlin.
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Stiller chronicles his showbiz family in the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost. Erivo sees parallels between her life and the experience of her Wicked character. Her memoir is Simply More. -
A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.
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Leigh shares stories about Psycho, including the infamous shower scene. Also, screenwriter Evan Hunter talks about working with the Hitchcock on his next film, The Birds. Originally broadcast in 1999.
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Charles (Ted Danson) went undercover in a retirement community in the first season of the hit Netflix series. In Season 2, Charles enrolls in college, and brings along a fantastic new cast. -
Sleep scientist Michelle Carr has spent years researching dreaming. She explains dream engineering, including how sensory inputs like light, sound and vibration can influence the subconscious.
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New Yorker writer Marc Fisher says Patel became FBI director without senior law enforcement experience because of his loyalty to Trump and willingness to seek retribution for his perceived enemies.
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After his parents died, Stiller found a stash of their audio recordings. Those tapes of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara are at the center of the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.
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Erivo says she found parallels between her life and the experience of her Wicked character, Elphaba. Her new memoir is called Simply More: A Book for Anyone who Has Been Told They're Too Much. -
Hawke says playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon pushed him to his limit. Robbin's new play, Topsy Turvy, is about a chorus that loses its ability to sing together after COVID isolation. -
Sirāt tells the story of a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the Sahara Desert. Though it carries echoes of earlier cinema, nothing about this film feels derivative or secondhand.
