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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

  • 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.

  • Don Imus Dies At 79

    Radio host Don Imus died Friday at 79. He was known for his biting take on politics and shock jock demeanor, including an infamous racist and sexist joke about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

  • Lost In 2019: Cody The Black Lab

    As part of Weekend Edition's "People We Lost In 2019" series, Jodi Freedman of Oakland, Calif., tell us about a four-legged friend in her life, her black lab Cody.

  • Former Google Engineer On Her Firing

    NPR's Scott Simon asks former Google engineer Kathryn Spiers about her firing after she posted an internal message about employee rights in the workplace.