The New Yorker Radio Hour

Mar 25 2025 150 ep. 27 mins 114.4k
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Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

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A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation

Mar 25 2025 21 mins  
Soon after October 7th, Hisham Awartani and two Palestinian friends were shot on the street in Vermont. At home in the West Bank, he contemplates the prospect of Israeli annexation.

Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Mar 21 2025 28 mins  
The CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent talks with the guest host Clare Malone about covering the Trump Administrations—and how Trump’s circle isn’t as hostile as it seems.

We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”

Mar 18 2025 23 mins  
Federal employees share what life is like under DOGE cuts, and why they’re speaking out. Plus, the novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story, which eventually became a hit film.

Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”

Mar 14 2025 27 mins  
Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.

How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

Mar 10 2025 23 mins  
The former senator faces prison time for accepting bribes in cash and gold, and for related crimes. Then he made a thinly veiled plea to the President he had once voted to impeach.

What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine

Mar 07 2025 37 mins  
The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin looks at America’s turning point in supporting Ukraine.

Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television

Mar 04 2025 16 mins  
The actor talks with Emily Nussbaum about his role on “The Traitors,” why he had always been “judgy” toward reality shows, and the perils of fame.

Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

Feb 28 2025 34 mins  
The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.

Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards

Feb 25 2025 16 mins  
Oscar who? The film critic—a true believer in the art of cinema—picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: The Brodys.

John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong

Feb 21 2025 34 mins  
The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.