Boulder v. Hill

#727 - 18 December 2020

What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. We visit with one group of people who are trying to rescue us from something very large, and another group trying to rescue us from something very small.

Twenty-Five

#726 - 11 December 2020

To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.

Turkey in a Face Mask

#725 - 27 November 2020

For Thanksgiving weekend, stories about food, and people who set out on very particular missions with food.

Personal Recount

#724 - 13 November 2020

Stories of people changing their minds.

Squeaker

#723 - 6 November 2020

People grappling with an endless presidential election.

The Unreality of Now

#722 - 30 October 2020

Ahead of the election, we have stories about people trying to live in the unreality that defines this moment. Election officials combat a contagion among their very own workers; people who've never owned guns suddenly go buy them; and two women who allege they were sexually assaulted by the president compare notes.

The Walls Close In

#721 - 23 October 2020

People finding themselves stuck in small spaces—an elevator, an attic, an orchestra pit—trying to make sense of their new surroundings.

The Moment After This Moment

#720 - 16 October 2020

People who are worried — or not worried enough! — about what's hurtling unstoppably towards them.

Trust Me I’m a Doctor

#719 - 2 October 2020

A doctor who breaks the law might go to jail like anybody else. But who decides if that doctor gets to keep their medical license? On today’s show, the not-often-talked-about realm of licensing boards, and the disturbing decisions they sometimes make.

Same Bed, Different Dreams (2020)

#718 - 25 September 2020

Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jong-Il. In another, a woman stalks her doppelgänger. And sometimes, one bed is the basis for an entire relationship, even for a man who almost never sees the person who shares his bed.