25 Episodes

  1. America, the broken? Richard Misrach photographs the country's splendor and scars

    Published: 3/18/2025
  2. Held captive in Iran, Sarah Shourd found solace in a Seal song

    Published: 3/4/2025
  3. Rufus Wainwright’s rough road to becoming ‘the greatest songwriter on the planet’

    Published: 2/18/2025
  4. Inside actor Rita Wilson's other life as a singer

    Published: 2/4/2025
  5. Director Cord Jefferson on winning an Oscar and writing for love

    Published: 1/21/2025
  6. Introducing Professional Book Nerds: An Interview with Daniel Handler

    Published: 1/14/2025
  7. Failing publicly and feeling at home with Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia

    Published: 1/7/2025
  8. Rock photographer Jay Blakesberg on capturing the souls of legends

    Published: 12/17/2024
  9. Sandra Bernhard’s ‘risky, beautiful, and heartbreaking’ life

    Published: 12/3/2024
  10. Chesa Boudin, raised by radicals, on the songs that shaped him

    Published: 11/19/2024
  11. Rahsaan “New York” Thomas on breaking barriers behind bars

    Published: 11/5/2024
  12. Why Kara Swisher loves country music and the military

    Published: 10/22/2024
  13. Turns out, Mark Cuban is an emotional guy

    Published: 10/8/2024
  14. Introducing American Masters: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Can Do That Genre Too!

    Published: 10/1/2024
  15. OpenAI’s Sam Altman: the human behind the machine

    Published: 9/24/2024
  16. How Rhodessa Jones went from nude dancer to theater icon

    Published: 9/10/2024
  17. How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies

    Published: 8/27/2024
  18. What Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, says about terror

    Published: 8/13/2024
  19. What inspired the original starchitect, Lord Norman Foster

    Published: 7/30/2024
  20. How comedy saved Margaret Cho’s life

    Published: 7/16/2024

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What songs tell your life story? Host Sophie Bearman asks this question of some of the world’s most fascinating people. Through seven songs, guests reveal the milestones—and the music—that have shaped their lives. New episodes every other Tuesday.