Weekend Edition
From civil wars in Bosnia and El Salvador, to hospital rooms, police stations, and America's backyards, National Public Radio's Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a well-traveled perspective to his role as host of Weekend Edition.
Latest Episodes
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Sevda Alizadeh, who performs as Sevdaliza, about her new album, "Heroina."
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Charles Norman Shay died Dec. 3 at age 101. He was a citizen of the Penobscot Nation who saved fellow soldiers storming Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.
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Some Philadelphians are cheesed off at the Michelin restaurant ratings team for an honor bestowed on some local cheesesteak restaurants.
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Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bank of America Institute's David Tinsley about what the data reveals about affordability in the U.S. as the Federal Reserve approaches its final meeting of 2025.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Republican strategist Liam Donovan, head of the consulting and public affairs firm Targeted Victory, how deep current disagreements in the GOP Congressional caucus are.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Jimmy Story, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, about the American military buildup in the region and pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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Residents of the growing town of Eagle, Idaho, are encountering a nuisance usually associated with big cities: swarms of rats. In Eagle that includes the acrobatic roof rat.
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Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Katie Bindley about Waymo self-driving vehicles and recent changes to how assertively they navigate traffic.