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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Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 MAX has crashed outside Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
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Teaching Kids To Control Their Anger
Teaching children to control their emotions, especially anger, is difficult. We look at how another culture accomplishes this and learn about a powerful tool that American parents may be overlooking.
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Sunday Puzzle: In This Game, A Chance To Claim Vic-tor-y
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with KQED listener Tracy Starr of Oakland, Calif.
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The Song Capturing The Heart Of Sudan's Protest Movement
Some of Sudan's biggest protests in decades are demanding that President Omar al-Bashir step down. A song written for an earlier time of discord has emerged as the protesters' anthem.
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The Ethics Of New Technology
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Caterina Fake. She is a co-founder of Flickr, a venture capitalist, and host of the podcast Should This Exist? about understanding the impact of technology on humanity.
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The Best 'Florida Man' Stories
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks the Miami Herald's Howard Cohen about bizarre stories situated in Florida featuring the so-called Florida Man.
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Growing Closer After Changing Faiths
NPR'S Lulu Garcia-Navarro speak with Kathryn Ross, who grew closer to her son after changing her faith.
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Sunday Puzzle: Oscars Night
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WHYY listener Steve Fayne of Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
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The Chicken Is Local, But Was It Happy? GPS Now Tells The Life Story Of Your Poultry
GPS bracelets attached to chickens might soon allow you to know exactly how many steps your entrée took and what it ate.
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Sunday Puzzle: Name That President
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WBUR listener Angela Voss of Medford, Mass.
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Car Loan Delinquencies Reach New High
Economic pessimists seized on new data indicating an increase in car loan delinquencies as evidence of a looming recession, but a downturn is likely simply because of the economy's cyclical nature.
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What Makes Someone American Indian?
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has apologized for identifying as "American Indian" in the 1980s, when the number of people who identified as Native American on the U.S. census rose dramatically.