Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians.
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Episodes
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Construction Noise: The Remix
Frida Backelin works nights, so it was pretty annoying when pile drivers blasted away outside her Swedish apartment. She posted the noise on Reddit, and others turned it into music.
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A Show For Las Vegas: 'Mondays Dark'
Mondays Dark is a show that's for Las Vegas, a city seen by many as a place to go crazy and then leave. The city's performers volunteer to entertain a local audience and raise money for charity.
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A Trumpet Made Of Bullets And The Kids Who Inspired It Take Hope Around The Country
The Instrument of Hope, a trumpet made partly of bullets and inspired by the survivors of the 2018 Parkland, Fla., mass shooting, is touring the country to promote healing.
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Bells To Ring Out Marking 400 Years Since Beginning Of Slavery In Virginia
You might hear bells ringing about 3 p.m. ET: It's to solemnly mark the arrival, 400 years ago of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.
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In 'Tigers Are Not Afraid,' A Dark Fantasy Amid Mexico's Drug War
Director Issa López blends magical realism and horror with the current events of her native country in the story of young Estrella, who meets a street gang of fellow orphan children.
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Sunday Puzzle: 5-To-7
NPR's Leila Fadel and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with KERA listener Adam Boyette of Fort Worth, Texas.
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Getting Coral To Reproduce
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Florida Aquarium's lead coral scientist Keri O'Neil about getting stone coral to repeatedly reproduce in a lab setting. This could help save global coral populations.
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Basketball Recruit On Leaving Mali
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to top college basketball recruit N'Faly Dante, who left Mali, and his mother, to pursue his hoop dreams in the U.S.
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Sunday Puzzle: The Name Of The Game
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle with KUOW listener Jacob Jaffe of Seattle.
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My Grandfather, A Killer
Denise Guerra, a second-generation Filipino American, never met her grandfather. When she finally learned a long-held family secret, it shattered her view of the quintessential immigrant narrative.
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Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 63 In Afghanistan
ISIS is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing at a wedding hall in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Poet Saida Dahir On 'The Walking Stereotype'
Eighteen-year-old Muslim Somali refugee Saida Dahir is an activist and hopes to inspire as a spoken word artist. Her debut poetry album is The Walking Stereotype. She talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.