Jill Sobule: A Shredder Right From The Beginning Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule talks about her early career and her new album Nostalgia Kills, then joins Jonathan Coulton to perform a music parody game.
Jameela Jamil: 'My Career Is Not Reflected By The Size Of My Body' Jamil plays flighty socialite Tahani al Jamil on the NBC sitcom The Good Place, but in real life she's a disability rights advocate who speaks out against body shaming and extreme beauty standards. Ari Shapiro
Alice Walker on tending to our sorrows, our anger On this episode of The Record, Bill Radke speaks to novelist Alice Walker, writer Nicole Chung, and KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch. Bill Radke
Seattle restaurateur Angela Stowell starts a new career path You may have heard of Ethan Stowell, the award-winning chef behind more than a dozen Seattle restaurants. But Angela Stowell, his business partner and wife, is the operational brains and often works behind the scenes. Ruby de Luna
Earl Thomas' bad break is why players want contracts to reflect risk You've seen it before: An injured player being carted off the field usually gives the thumbs up. Not this time. Angela King
My grandpa sang songs to fight for freedom. Now I sing them too. Last summer, he sang a song I hadn't heard before. He told me what the lyrics mean: let us dance, and let us sing folk songs, because we have achieved independence. At first I was confused. What independence? From whom? And what's going on here? Medha Kumar
Boy Scout 'Boot Camp' For Girls Near Olympia Paves Trail For Coed Scouting A western Washington chapter of the Boy Scouts is preparing to welcome girls to scouting with a "boot camp" just for teenage girls this coming weekend, Oct. 5-7. It’s a first-of-its-kind event hosted by the Pacific Harbors Council. NPR Staff
Molly Ringwald On '80s Movies And Sexual Assault Molly Ringwald, 1980s movie darling, discusses the impact of the era's pop culture concerning Brett Kavanaugh's alleged assault of Christine Blasey Ford with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Sexual Assault And Forgiveness NPR's Scott Simon asks Atlantic contributor Caitlin Flanagan about this week's Supreme Court testimony and about the possibility of atonement and forgiveness for sexual assault perpetrators.
Drew Philp: How Can 'Radical Neighborliness' Help Struggling Communities? In 2009, Drew Philp bought an abandoned house in Detroit and worked with neighbors to fix it up. He discovered the power of 'radical neighborliness' to rebuild his struggling neighborhood. NPR Staff