Weekend Edition Sunday
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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.
Latest Episodes
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Rachel Cristy of Sacramento, Calif., plays this week's puzzle with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
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Major League Baseball tried to make up for the non-existent fans at a Red Sox game on Friday. They used pre-recorded cheers and music.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch about their new Netflix documentary, Mucho Mucho Amor, that looks at the legacy of the famed astrologer Walter Mercado.
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NPR's Lulu Gracia-Navarro speaks with NPR's Pam Fessler about her book, Carville's Cure. It's about the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana where people with Hansen's disease, or leprosy, were sent.
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Anthony Gray plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Scott Detrow.
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A team of researchers is developed a test strip that can detect a toxin found in many species of deadly mushrooms.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author Lacy Crawford about her new memoir, Notes on a Silencing, about her sexual assault at an elite boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire.
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An expert in urban planning and environmental policy explains how race has played a central role in how cities across America developed — often in ways that hurt minority communities.
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A record that's hard for most people to swallow: Joey Chestnut, has won his 13th Nathan's hot dog eating contest - 75 hot dogs. Oooft! At least there was social distancing.
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Women have slowly made economic gains over the last half-century, and the gender wage gap is as narrow as it has ever been. But coronavirus could reverse those gains, and motherhood is a big reason.