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NPR Weekend Edition Saturday

Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week"s news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR"s Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.

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5:28

Saturday Sports: College and professional football...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss a big weekend of college and professional football.

6:28

What could be Israel's strategy?

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution about Israel's potential long-term strategy.

3:52

Biden's foreign policy legacy

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

President Biden initially wanted to turn his foreign policy to China but instead was drawn into Ukraine and the Middle East.

3:56

The science behind the selfless act of donating a...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

About 300 Americans a year give a kidney to a complete stranger. Researchers have studied the brains of these very generous people, and say they may feel others' pain more than the average person. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on November 28, 2024.)

5:23

NPR staff recommend memoirs from our annual Books We...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

NPR staff recommend memoirs from our annual Books We Love list: "Bird of Four Hundred Voices," "The Backyard Bird Chronicles," "Knife," and "Here After."

6:37

Adrien Brody discusses artistic vision in new movie...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Adrien Brody about his new film, "The Brutalist." The Oscar-winner plays an architect and Holocaust survivor striving to fulfill his artistic vision in America.

4:39

A look at the history of jingle bells

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

We explore the history of the bells that have become so tied with the Christmas season: jingle bells.

6:24

Author and illustrator talk about making "Shortest...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on December 16, 2023.)

3:30

The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.

6:37

How casting makes this 'Gypsy' hit different

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/21

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. Audra McDonald is starring in a new Broadway revival, and the race-conscious casting gives the production a new frame.

6:57

How Syria's 'musician of the revolution' feels after...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Syrian-American composer Malek Jandali about the fall of the dictatorship in Syria and his hopes for his homeland's future.

4:26

How Trump's early days in 2017 might be different...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

We look at what the Trump White House did in early 2017 and what might be different this time around.

4:27

Saturday sports: Belichick to coach UNC; Juan Soto...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media discuss Bill Belichick's move to college football and Juan Soto's massive new contract with the New York Mets.

3:53

How to cure loneliness? Stammtisch.

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

Loneliness is a modern, cross-generational plague. Some people are looking to an old German tradition for a tried and true remedy.

5:51

Zildjian brand cymbals are everywhere. But how...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

Zildjian cymbal are used by top drummers across the globe -- they've been made by one family, using a secret process, for 400 years.

3:25

President-elect Trump promised to extend tax cuts,...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

The incoming Congress is preparing to extend expiring portions of the 2017 tax cuts from the last Trump administration. Congressional bean counters say that will have little effect on economic growth.

4:33

The Texas Attorney General is suing a New York doctor...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

The state of Texas is suing a doctor in New York, saying she prescribed abortion pills for a Texas woman in violation of its law.

5:18

The International Rescue Committee warns 'the world...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, about the group's 2025 Watchlist, which warns that more than 300 million people require humanitarian assistance.

5:27

After 32 years and 5 days, a father and son reunite...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has freed at least thousands of people detained in Syria's notorious prisons. Some of them have made it back home. Other families are still looking.

5:27

After 32 years and 5 days, a father and son reunite...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2024/12/14

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has freed thousands of people detained in Syria's notorious prisons. Some of them have made it back home. Other families are still looking.

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