The Last Place
When you spend so much of your life getting to the next stage, thinking about the next move, what is it like to find yourself in…the Last Place? In this episode, we bring you audio diaries from a...
View ArticleTalib Kweli, Advice for Aging Well, An Hour of Oscar Noms
Talib Kweli discusses his incredible career in hip-hop. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist, talks about her new book, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age....
View Article'Women Rowing North'
Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist, joins us to discuss her new book, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age, which looks at the struggles of growing older (both...
View ArticleKay Powell
Just like the children in the clubs.Kay Powell is a retired reporter and obituary writer for the Atlanta Constitution-Journal.You can read one of her most famous obituaries here.Join the 10 Things That...
View ArticleJudith Viorst on Turning 90
Judith Viorst, author of many books, including the children's classic, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, and her latest, Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life talks...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Ethics and Elections in the NYS Budget; Speak My...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.NYS Budget Debrief: Ethics and Elections (First) | Speak My Language (and Others) (Starts at 29:20) | Judith Viorst on Turning 90...
View ArticleJohn Cameron Mitchell & Marilyn Maye: I Will Survive
The actor and Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator talks with 91-year-old cabaret singing legend Marilyn Maye about love affairs, alcoholism and their hopes and fears about aging. Please give to our...
View ArticleA New Approach to Dementia Care
In the field of memory care, there is a fierce debate around the question of honesty. Lying can, under certain circumstances, alleviate or avert distress in patients who are suffering from memory loss....
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Atul Gawande — What Matters in the End
“What does a good day look like?” That question — when asked of both terminally-ill and healthy people — has transformed Atul Gawande’s practice of medicine. A citizen physician and writer, Gawande is...
View ArticleMike Pearl
I think the real reason I didn't reenlist was because they had wool uniforms.Mike Pearl is a retired newspaper reporter from New York. He wrote for the Daily Mirror, the Journal-American, the World...
View ArticleSarah Smarsh & Nick Smarsh: Are You Different Than Me?
As a journalist and author, Sarah Smarsh has built her career around examining socioeconomic class. In 2018, her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth...
View ArticleJill Chenault
I'm not out there trying to make amphibious friends.Jill has had many careers, from lawyer to dog walker to hand model. She currently takes care of her parents in Lansing, Michigan with her dog...
View ArticleAnita Hill; Robert Caro; Suketu Mehta; Judith Viorst; Elizabeth Gilbert
As we observe the holiday weekend, enjoy some of our favorite recent conversations:Anita Hill, attorney, law professor, equal rights activist, and Suzanne Nossel, PEN America chief executive officer,...
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[Unedited] Atul Gawande with Krista Tippett
“What does a good day look like?” That question — when asked of both terminally-ill and healthy people — has transformed Atul Gawande’s practice of medicine. A citizen physician and writer, Gawande is...
View ArticleAdam Gopnik Tries Out Being Old
In fifteen years, people of retirement age will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. But, the staff writer Adam Gopnik finds, the elderly are poorly served by the field of design,...
View ArticleAdam Gopnik on Aging, and a Visit to Maine with Elizabeth Strout
In fifteen years, people of retirement age will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. But, the staff writer Adam Gopnik finds, the elderly are poorly served by the field of design,...
View ArticleJudith Light Once Told Her Agent, "No Soaps, No Sitcoms"
Judith Light has an unequaled emotional and tonal range as an actor. She also has a shape-shifting physicality that made her entirely convincing both as the shuffling yenta Shelly Pfefferman in...
View ArticleImpeachment Daily: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries; Unpacking the Atatiana Jefferson...
Coming up on today's show:U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8), House Democratic caucus chairman, talks about the latest news on the impeachment inquiry and the White House vs. Congress...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Still Bowling for Columbine; Gail Collins; The Police...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Still Bowling for Columbine (First) | Gail Collins on the Adventures of Older Women (at 25:37) | The Police Shooting of Atatiana...
View Article[Unedited] Alison Gopnik with Krista Tippett
Alison Gopnik understands babies and children as the R&D division of humanity. From her cognitive science lab at the University of California, -Berkeley, she investigates the “evolutionary paradox”...
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