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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 days 2 hours 26 minutes
The Grenfell Tragedy
Grenfell Tower was that giant pillar of public housing on the West side of London that went up in flames a year ago. Suddenly it was a smoky chemical torch in the night, fueled by ...
Bill Banfield’s Griot Songs
Your friends and other experts will tell you the songs and sounds that are new and hot. What the music makers are happier telling you is: what’s old, what abides, what is true, what connects ...
Our Borderline Disorder
The shock of migrant kids-in-cages on our border with Mexico is surfacing tough questions if you’re willing to look back at our history and ahead to an emerging world disorder. The issues run deep: why ...
Molly Crabapple’s Cosmopolitan Colors
Listen fast, podcast people, because the beloved artist-satirist-global muckraker Molly Crabapple talks fast, the same way she draws and paints a sort of carnival of conflict out there: in Syria, in storm-damaged Puerto Rico, in ...
Two guys walk into a summit in Singapore
From “fire and fury” to a “terrific relationship” in less than a year sound like a happy turn in the Trump – Kim dance around nukes and North Korea. Better news coming is implied in ...
The Original Kitchen Connection (June 29, 2000)
Anthony Bourdain introduced us almost 20 years ago to Systeme D, the crisis procedures in the best kitchens that get the chef out of a jam. I was eager to interview him not least because ...
The Reporter’s Reporter
Seymour Hersh, known as Sy, made a brilliant career, at his best, of exposing Official US, at its worst: the Army massacre at My Lai, in Vietnam. The sadistic prison management at Abu Ghraib in ...
The Split Screen View in Jerusalem and Gaza
One split screen wasn’t really enough for the asymmetries we’re looking at now, but there it was: Ivanka unveiling the Trump embassy plaque in Jerusalem, and 40 miles away, the massacre at Gaza, Israeli soldiers ...
Trump Goes Rogue In Iran
Dropping out of the Iran nuclear deal has the feel of dropping into the John Bolton phase of the Trump era. Trump in Full. Trump Extra. The theme is No More Mr. Nice Guy, or ...
Lisa Halliday’s ‘Asymmetry’
The writer Zadie Smith first clued us into the work of debut novelist Lisa Halliday, who spoke with us recently about her fantastic new book, and which we present here as a special podcast. Here’s ...