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The New Yorker Radio Hour

Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

    The songwriter and performer on her journey from pop music to theatre, with a live performance of “Gravity.”

    19 min

  2. 6 DAYS AGO

    Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

    Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.

    32 min

  3. 31/12/2024

    Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director

    The actress talks with Michael Schulman about her time on “As the World Turns,” starring in Pedro Almodóvar’s first film in English, and why she hates when people call actors “brave.”

    24 min

  4. 27/12/2024

    The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten

    The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. Plus, Pick Three: Erotic Thrillers.

    27 min

  5. 24/12/2024

    Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

    In 1979, a minister received a telegram from Iranian militants who had taken hostages in the American embassy, inviting him to perform Christmas services. Two days later, he was inside.

    30 min

  6. 20/12/2024

    Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”

    The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of vampire movies, Eggers “wanted him to be scary again.”

    21 min

  7. 18/12/2024

    From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar

    James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yorker Festival, in 2010, Taylor peeled back some of his influences—the Beatles, Bach, show tunes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim—and played a few of his hits, even giving the staff writer Adam Gopnik a quick lesson.

    33 min

  8. 18/12/2024

    From the Archive: St. Vincent’s Seduction

    Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in indie rock, playing alongside artists like Sufjan Stevens. As a bandleader, she’s moved away from the explosive solos, telling David Remnick, “There’s a certain amount of guitar playing that is about pride, that isn’t about the song. . . . I’m not that interested in guitar being a means of poorly covered-up pride.” Her songs are dense, challenging, and not always easy, but catchy and seductive. Remnick caught up with Clark before the launch of her new album, “MASSEDUCTION.”  They talked about the clarity of purpose she needed in order to “clear a path” to write the “glamorously sad songs” she’s become known for.

    27 min
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