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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Sunday Puzzle: Lucky Number 7
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with KQED listener Steven Bailey of San Francisco.
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Thousands Lose Power In New York City
Manhattan's Upper West Side was hit with a power outage Saturday night, leaving some stranded in subway tunnels and causing traffic jams.
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Experiences Attempting Adoption: 'Excuse Me, May I Raise Your Child?'
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author and journalist Farai Chideya about her experiences attempting adoption. She writes about it in a piece titled "Excuse Me, May I Raise Your Child?"
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Sunday Puzzle: Power Of The Pen
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenge KUWR listener Patrick Ivers of Laramie, Wyo.
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Jack Fairweather On The 'Secret Mission To Destroy Auschwitz'
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jack Fairweather about his new book, The Volunteer, which chronicles a Polish man who volunteered to go to Auschwitz in order to start a resistance movement there.
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Remembering João Gilberto
Brazilian musician João Gilberto has died. We have this appreciation.
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Jeffrey Epstein Arrested
Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors in New York. Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
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British Diplomat Calls Trump's 'Inept' Presidency In Leaked Messages
Leaked cables from the British ambassador in the U.S. are unflattering to the Trump administration.
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Record-Breaking Rainfall Limits Harvest For Midwest Farmers
Rain delayed planting season for soybean and corn farmers in Ohio. Kris Swartz of Perrysburg tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro he was unable to plant most of his acres this year.
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A Former Child Interned Protests Against Detention Of Migrant Children
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Chizu Omori, who was forced as a child to move to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. She's now protesting detention of immigrant children in the U.S.
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Sunday Puzzle: True Or False?
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Ben Huddle of Salem, Va.
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Fears Of Far-Right Terror In Germany
The killing of a prominent German politician and the arrest of his confessed killer, who has links to a far-right network, has raised fears of far-right terrorism in Germany.