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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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3:57

Jamaica's bobsled team aims to make history in Lake...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/08

Almost forty years after a Jamaican bobsled team charmed Olympic viewers, the country's program is climbing the ranks and prompting hopes of winning Jamaica's first winter Olympic medal.

8:02

In '33 Place Brugmann', residents of a Brussels...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/08

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Alice Austen about her novel "33 Place Brugmann." Set in Brussels during WWII, it tracks the residents of one building whose lives are upended by the Nazi occupation.

2:27

Opinion: Don't call this coffee an Americano!

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/08

Canadians fed up with tariff threats and suggestions of Canada becoming the 51st state are now calling Americano coffee drinks "Canadianos." NPR's Scott Simon explains.

3:15

Trump signs executive action targeting public service...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/08

The program forgives the loans of borrowers who work in public service. The executive action would exclude those who work for certain organizations.

4:16

'A blitz attack': VA mental health experts liken Elon...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/07

Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.

3:48

A 'silent' protest? Haydn and a bunch of chorus girls...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

A new album by artists including Kate Bush and Imogen Heap protesting proposed changes to AI copyright laws is the latest in a history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.

3:48

Kate Bush and Imogen Heap's new album against AI...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

There's a long history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.

5:07

Comedian Andy Huggins on getting his first standup...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

NPR's Scott Simon talks to comedian Andy Huggins about aging, his long career in stand-up comedy and his first full-length special, which he taped at age 73.

4:38

Trump is a professional wrestling fan. Here's how his...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

It's well known that President Trump is a devotee of professional wrestling. Pundits often describe his moves in the White House in wrestling terms: smackdowns, cage fights and so on. We ask how the wrestling world may be informing his second term.

3:42

DOGE cuts at NOAA will impact hurricane forecasting...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

Cuts at NOAA mean fewer hurricane-hunter aircrafts will be gathering real time data on developing storms and that the team developing computer models for forecasts will be "gutted," insiders say.

5:24

Saturday Sports: Diana Taurasi's retirement, NBA drama

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michele Steele of ESPN about basketball legend Diana Taurasi's retirement, drama in the NBA, and a political statement by Canada's men's national soccer team coach.

5:43

Consumer confidence is down. Here's why economic...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, about how some government statistics get the economy wrong.

8:18

John Bolton discusses the implications of a tense...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

NPR's Scott Simon talks to former National Security Adviser John Bolton about the foreign policy implications of Friday's shocking press conference between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.

3:49

Supreme Court to weigh in on Trump administration's...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

We look at the anticipated impact of of the USAID funding freeze, which helped some of the poorest people around the world. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the matter.

2:49

Thousands in Greece protest the government's role in...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

Thousands demonstrate in Greece on anniversary of deadly train crash that killed 57 and injured scores more in 2023.

4:00

Ukrainians express shock and outrage at Trump...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

We look at the response in Ukraine to Fridays shambolic press conference at the Oval Office between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Trump.

4:33

How the fallout of U.S.-Ukraine relations is being...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Johns Hopkins professor Sergey Radchenko about what Russia hopes to gain from negotiations with the United States over ending its war in Ukraine.

4:47

Week in politics: Contentious Trump-Zelenskyy press...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

We look at Friday's contentious press conference at the Oval Office, as well as updates on the Trump administration's cuts at federal agencies. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the matter.

7:53

Conductor Marin Alsop on why presenting Julia Wolfe's...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to conductor Marin Alsop about presenting Julia Wolfe's "Her Story" and the resonance of that feminist piece at this moment.

7:53

Conductor Marin Alsop on Trump, the Kennedy Center...

NPR Weekend Edition Saturday ·

2025/03/01

The celebrated conductor brought Her Story, a potent piece by Julia Wolfe, to Kennedy Center audiences recently.

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