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 The film "Nanny" from writer and director Nikyatu Jusu  won the top prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Jusu joins us to discuss the film, which combines elements of African folklore wi...

https://www.wnyc.org/shows/all-of-it

On the heels of Stalking Awareness month, Kris Mohandie, Ph.D  and expert on security management joins to discuss stalking--why it happens, and what resources there are for those who are victim...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/kris-mohandie-phd-discusses-stalking-awareness/

A new guide assists couples in escaping the win-or-lose mentality in moments of conflict,  favoring a collaborative approach. Clinical psychologists Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman  and Dr. John G...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-better-resolve-relationship-conflicts/

A debate is raging on the Lower East Side over the fate of Bluestockings Cooperative, a community bookstore that is facing eviction. In addition to selling books, Bluestockings also distributes...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/bookstore-lower-east-side-divided-community/

Angel Island is located in San Francisco Bay, and from 1910 to 1940, it served as the West Coast's primary immigration facility. It also functioned as a detention center, where hundreds of thousa...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/angel-island-tells-story-chinese-immigration-through-opera/

In the Broadway staging of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Obie-winning play "Appropriate,"  Sarah Paulson  stars as Toni, a woman dealing with the fallout from a gruesome discovery among her late fath...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/family-secrets-come-light-appropriate/

In 1999, many were concerned about the possibility that a computer meltdown could occur when the clock struck twelve. We revisit that time through a new documentary that uses archival footage to ...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-documentary-revisits-y2k-glitch/

World leaders convened at the UN's COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai yesterday to discuss environmental policy on a global scale. EDDIE BAUTISTA, executive director of the NYC Environmental Justice...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-12-01/

The new documentary, "Four Daughters,"  tackles the story of two sisters who left their family to join ISIS through an unusual method-- casting two actors to play the sisters and act out scenes...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/four-daughters-shows-how-people-become-radicalized/

The new film, "Beyond Utopia,"  follows a group of North Koreans attempting to escape their homeland. Documentarian Madeleine Gavin  joins us to discuss the film, much of it shot by the subjec...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/beyond-utopia-follows-people-attempting-flee-north-korea/

A new series on HBO explores the story of Renee Bach, a U.S. missionary who was accused of treating children in Uganda with no medical expertise, many of whom died. Director Jackie Jesko  joins ...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/savior-complex-explores-when-missionary-work-becomes-deadly/

For this Independence Day: ALEXANDRA PETRI, humorist and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) (W. W. Norton &...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/fourth-july-spoofing-history-whales-and-climate-korean-american-manifesto-believing-refugees-american-english/

For transcripts, see individual segment pages. In her latest book, journalist MAUREEN RYAN describes racism, harassment, and other forms of abuse prevalent in Hollywood through deep dives int...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-06-15/

For transcripts, see individual segment pages. Actor NICK MOHAMMED is most familiar to American audiences for playing the kit man-turned villain Nate in the hit Apple TV + series "Ted Lasso." N...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-06-02/

For transcripts, see individual segment pages. MTV News, the newsroom that spoke to a new generation of engaged viewers, voters, and music fans, is shutting down, 36 years after it was launched...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-05-12/

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization toed a fine line between acknowledging the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, while laying the groundwork to begin transitioning out o...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/long-covid-three-years-later/

Actor Hong Chau  has had a big year, with scene stealing performances in "The Menu" and "The Whale." The latter has earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Chau joins us...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/oscar-nominee-hong-chaus-big-year/

Horror writer Stephen Graham Jones  tackles indigenous identity through his terrifying novels. In last year's novel, My Heart is a Chainsaw, Jones tells the story of a woman named Jade whose c...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/two-horror-novels-stephen-graham-jones/

Adult film star Janessa Brazil is the most impersonated person in the world...for catfishing scams. Host Hannah Ajala  travels the world in search of the real Janessa, while investigating sever...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/face-catfishing-scams/

"Murder in Big Horn," a new docuseries that premiered at Sundance, focuses on multiple cases of missing indigenous women in Big Horn County, Montana. In interviews with native leaders, families ...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-docuseries-spotlights-current-issue-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/

For transcripts, see individual segment pages. Women have suffered for centuries from the worst symptoms of menopause, which include hot flashes, depression, pain during sex, and insomnia. So w...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-02-07/

For transcripts, see individual segment pages. We air highlights from our live Get Lit with All Of It event with Pulitzer Prize winning biographer STACY SCHIFF. She joined us at the SNFL Roof...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-02-02/

Tony nominated playwright Bess Wohl is making her feature film directorial debut with "Baby Ruby," a thriller about a woman struggling with post-partum depression. The film stars Noémie Merlant...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/bess-wohls-new-film-baby-ruby/

For transcripts, see individual segment pages. Last friday, video was made public by the city of Memphis showing the beating that Tyre Nichols suffered at the hands of police, leading to his de...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2023-01-31/

To round out our hour on Titanic, we're joined by Luis Ferreiro , Director-CEO of Muselia, the group behind Titanic. The Exhibition which combines over 200 objects with life-size recreations to t...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/titanic-exhibition/

Last Friday, video was made public by the city of Memphis showing the beating that Tyre Nichols suffered at the hands of police, leading to his death. Since then, some people have refused to watc...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-media-handles-police-brutality/

Karen Baum Gordon's father escaped the Holocaust -- but not its psychological legacy. She joins us to discuss her book, "The Last Letter," which chronicles his experiences -- and examines what i...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/last-letter-fathers-struggle-daughters-quest-and-long-shadow-holocaust/

 Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan  was relieved when her husband woke up from a long coma, following a harrowing experience with a mysterious illness. But that relief was short-lived...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/best-resilience-2022-not-pity-memoir/

A new FX series from creator, writer and showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapts Octavia Butler's "Kindred," which follows an African American woman from modern times who experiences episodes o...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/octavia-butlers-kindred-adapted-tv/

We discuss tips for caregiving during the holidays as some of us prepare to see loved ones. Longtime NPR journalist Kitty Eisele and host of Twenty-Four Seven podcast joins us to offer some advi...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/tips-caregiving-over-holidays/

As we continue our weekly caregiving series, we discuss how caring for others that are ill can cause strain and hardship for caregivers. Clinical psychologist Allison J. Applebaum  directs the ...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/tips-caring-caregiver/

Playwrights Horizons "Downstate,"  written by Bruce Norris , follows four men convicted of sex crimes sharing a group home in downstate Illinois after a man shows up to confront his childhood a...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/playwrights-horizons-downstate-dives-difficult-conversations/

In the 1990s, an Israeli graduate student conducted research into a massacre of Palestinian civilians in 1948, the year of Israel's establishment as a nation. That research led the student to be ...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/sundance-opener-tantura-israeli-look-violence-against-palestinians/

In 1986, writer Paul Monette lost Roger Horwitz, his partner of 12 years, to AIDS. In the months that followed, Monette wrote a cycle of poems capturing the love, grief and rage he was experienci...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2022-12-01/

The new film "Nanny" from writer and director Nikyatu Jusu won the top prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Jusu joins us to discuss the film, which combines elements of African folklore...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/nanny-shows-horror-exploitative-labor/

In 1986, writer Paul Monette lost Roger Horwitz, his partner of 12 years, to AIDS. In the months that followed, Monette wrote a cycle of poems capturing the love, grief and rage he was experienci...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/facing-darkness/

There are thousands of new migrants in our area, and many of them lack access to basics such as food and clothing. WNYC reporter Gwynne Hogan will talk about the teachers in Queens who opened a...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-some-people-and-groups-are-welcoming-migrants/

This past Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the death of the late great Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim. Before he passed away, D.T. MAX, staff writer for The New Yorker, had been spe...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2022-11-29/

We're spotlighting the role that caregivers fulfill in others' lives as we approach the holidays. After providing care for her father, longtime NPR journalist Kitty Eisele  shared her story whi...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/sharing-stories-caregivers/

New York Magazine writer JUSTIN DAVIDSON joins to talk about New York City's structural changes ten years after Hurricane Sandy, and how the city might look in the future as a result of future...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/all-of-it-2022-10-28/

New York Magazine writer Justin Davidson  joins to talk about New York City's structural changes ten years after Hurricane Sandy, and how the city might look in the future as a result of futur...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/ten-years-after-hurricane-sandy/

When Ann Dowd  first appeared as Aunt Lydia in Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale," her character was one of the most repugnant on the show, which is set in an alternative world where society is struc...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/watch-party-handmaids-tale/

With far reaching implications for long standing precedent on issues like voting access, LGBTQ rights and beyond, the new session’s docket will likely remain as contentious as the last one’s....

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/supreme-courts-objectivity-under-scrutiny/

“The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” is a new documentary that lifts the curtain on “the happiest place on earth” to demonstrate how income inequality is playing out in. Directors...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/american-dream-and-other-fairy-tales/

Two years ago in the summer of 2020, the largest racial justice demonstrations in history swept across the globe after Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. In the aft...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/deep-dive-police-abolition/

Khaled Hosseini's wildly popular 2003 novel The Kite Runner has now been adapted into a show on Broadway . Adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler  and starring Amir Arison  as a young bo...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/kite-runner-comes-broadway/

After the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and even Loving v. Virginia, one major issue around the racial justice movement remained unaddressed: fair housing. On April 11, 1968...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/deep-dive-fair-housing/

Ahead of the Poor People’s March this weekend, we spoke with BISHOP WILLIAM BARBER and DORIAN WARREN , the co-president of Community change and co-chair of the Economic Security Project walks ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/poor-peoples-march/

Masha Gessen is reporting for The New Yorker on the war in Ukraine, which is now in its fourth month. They checked in with David Remnick from Kyiv, which seems almost normal, with “hipsters in ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/masha-gessen-quiet-kyiv/

Masha Gessen is reporting for The New Yorker on the war in Ukraine, which is now in its fourth month. They checked in with David Remnick from Kyiv, which seems almost normal, with “hipsters in ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/masha-gessen-quiet-kyiv-seg/