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Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program 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. 

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Episodes

  • Saturday Sports: NFL Playoffs, Olympics And Politics

    The NFL playoffs continue without Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and the IOC says it will not allow protests at the 2020 Tokyo Games. NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant.

  • Author Meng Jin On 'Little Gods'

    NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Meng Jin about her debut novel Little Gods, about a 17-year-old whose journey to China reveals the life of her mother, a former physicist who died in America.

  • Iraq's Position Between The U.S. And Iran

    Abbas Kadhim, director of the Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council, speaks to NPR's Leila Fadel about Iraq's position between the U.S. and Iran: Can the country afford to take sides?

  • Evangelicals Rally For Trump

    Evangelicals supporting President Trump rallied in Miami Friday. It comes after a major Evangelical publication called for Trump to be removed from office.

  • Iraqi Protester On Iran-U.S. Tensions

    NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Halah, an anti-government protester in Baghdad who is worried about what a proxy war between Iran and the U.S. will mean for her country.

  • Ofra Bloch On 'Afterward'

    NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with filmmaker Ofra Bloch about her new documentary Afterward. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Bloch decided to examine her long-held belief that Germans were bad.

  • T.S. Eliot's Love Letters Unsealed

    NPR's Leila Fadel talks to scholar Frances Dickey of the University of Missouri about the trove of love letters T.S. Eliot wrote to a woman he called his "muse." The letters were unsealed this week.

  • Saturday Sports: NFL Playoffs, Remembering David Stern

    The NFL playoffs are here. Is the Super Bowl a realistic goal for the teams that kick off the postseason this weekend? And we remember the man who ruled the NBA with an iron fist and compassion.

  • The 2010s: The Influence Of The Kardashians

    From reality TV stars to a conglomerate, how did the Kardashians come to dominate this past decade? NPR's Leila Fadel talks to writer Zan Romanoff to answer that question.