Saturday and Sunday mornings are made for Weekend Edition, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.
Drawing on his experience in covering 10 wars and stories in all 50 states and seven continents, Simon brings a humorous, sophisticated and often moving perspective to each show. He is as comfortable having a conversation with a major world leader as he is talking with a Hollywood celebrity or the guy next door.
Weekend Edition has a unique and entertaining roster of other regular contributors. Marin Alsop, conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, talks about music. Daniel Pinkwater, one of the biggest names in children's literature, talks about and reads stories with Simon. Financial journalist Joe Nocera follows the economy. Howard Bryant of EPSN.com and NPR's Tom Goldman chime in on sports. Keith Devlin, of Stanford University, unravels the mystery of math, and Will Grozier, a London cabbie, talks about good books that have just been released, and what well-read people leave in the back of his taxi. Simon contributes his own award-winning essays, which are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant.
Weekend Edition is heard on NPR Member stations across the United States, and around the globe on NPR Worldwide. The conversation between the audience and the program staff continues throughout the social media world.
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With her 1974 book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard became the youngest woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. We take a moment to remember her and her work. -
The Trump administration was frustrated both home and abroad this week.
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The leaders of France, Poland, and other leading European nations are alarmed over what they describe as Russian "hybrid" attacks.
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Carnegie Deli, famous for its sandwiches piled high with meat, has reopened as a sit-down restaurant in New York City after a 10-year hiatus.
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The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss Major League Baseball's pennant race and start of football season.
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Analysts are warning about an impending jump in gas prices. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Bob McNally, of Rapidan Energy about how and even if the economic effects can be mitigated.
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When someone dies in ICE detention, who actually tells their family- and what does that process look like? Also, pediatricians say immigration sweeps are keeping migrant kids away from the doctor.
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Weekend Edition's Scott Simon talks with author Nathan Hale about his kids' graphic history book, "One Dead Spy." It's the story of Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, no relation to the author.
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Five years after the return of Taliban rule, NPR visited Kabul to see how Afghans are dealing with their new government's strict social restrictions.
