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Whether it’s joining a live Zoom chat with our hosts, or diving into a deep-cut bonus interview, NPR+ is a passport to award-winning public radio. Join today and explore these latest highlights below from around the world of NPR+. |
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Event recap: Pop Culture Happy Hour Live over Zoom |
While the PCHH team usually lives in your headphones, a few weeks ago, they welcomed hundreds of NPR+ folks into their living rooms as they recorded their recent episode on The Oscars' new casting category. Here’s a little peek at the smiles you missed: |
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And it wasn’t just about the nominees; it was about the chaotic Zoom chat between all the fans like you, the real-time reactions, and seeing the faces behind the voices you love. This is just another example of the special content available for NPR+ supporters. We hope you'll join the fun the next time around, and support public media with NPR+.
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The podcast world just had its own big night too: The Ambies. We're still blushing a little, but we wanted to share the news that NPR+ helps support award-winning journalism, quite literally. When you get NPR+, you’re a part of what keeps our shows producing this level of excellence. |
Featured NPR+ Bonus Episodes |
| The first question of this Wayback Machine stumped Peter and our contestant
In this episode of the "Wait Wait Wayback Machine", we put questions to our newest NPR+ contestant, Pamela from Detroit. The catch? These questions aired on the show 20 years ago in February 2006.
If you want a chance to play the Wayback Machine with Peter in a future bonus episode, sign up for NPR+ and listen to the top of this bonus episode for instructions on how to enter!
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| The ‘Sinners’ scene Delroy Lindo improvised that gave the film more soul
With 16 nominations this year, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” became the most nominated film in Oscars history. In this compilation of never-before-aired clips from Tonya Mosley’s interview with Coogler from 2025, the filmmaker reveals a scene that Delroy Lindo improvised on his own, what first intrigued him about Michael B. Jordan, and how the setting of “Sinners” was rooted in his own background.
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| "A Triumph of Sorts" A Click & Clack Throwback
Our latest plus offering brings us back once again to the early days of Car Talk on NPR. This time, along with the callers, Weekend Edition Sunday host Susan Stamberg attempts to stump Click and Clack.
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| What happens when teens help design social media
As a teenager, Maximilian Milovidov struggled with compulsive social media use. Now he’s a youth advocate advising tech companies and policymakers on how to make online spaces safer. He believes bans and fines won’t fix social media, and in this episode for TED Radio Hour+, he shares why listening to young people might.
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| Short sellers steal the show in HBO's 'Industry'
High-finance drama meets real-world fraud. The team breaks down the latest season of Industry, exploring why short sellers are the new TV villains (or heroes) and how the show mirrors actual financial scandals.
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| Rund and Ramtin review ‘Bride and Prejudice’, the Bollywood musical
If you listened to the Throughline episode “Pride, Prejudice, and Peer Pressure” you may remember that our brave hosts agreed to watch a unique Austen adaptation and review it for our plus listeners... So without further ado, here’s Rund and Ramtin discussing Bride & Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical.
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| All Songs+: "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac
More than 50 years after first being released, and thanks to a little show called “Stranger Things,” this song managed to reemerge on the Billboard charts earlier this year, yet again. How does this song and this band continue to remain relevant after so long?
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| There are over 25 podcasts with NPR+ benefits.
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