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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Stevie Wonder comes prepared for an interview. STEVIE WONDER: (Laughter). (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) WONDER: (Vocalizing, singing) Wheel of '84. SHAPIRO: That's from the newest episode of What's Good With Stretch And Bobbito

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Indie rock band Big Thief is ready to take off. With two albums already under its belt, the group from Brooklyn has won over fans with deeply personal songs written by lead singer Adrianne Lenker. That's why Big Thief is part

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美国国家公共电台 NPR USPS Honors Beloved Children's Book With New 'Snowy Day' Stamps

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you went to the post office this past week, you might have noticed something new - a forever stamp collection featuring illustrations from the children's book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'He Was My Everything': A Farmer's Wife Reflects On Her Husband's Suicide

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It is Friday, which is when we hear StoryCorps. It's also springtime, which is planting season for farmers. And the stress can take its toll. Farmers have one of the highest suicide rates of any job in the Un

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Snow Child' Conveys Alaska's Wild Magic In Musical Form

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A well-known Russian folktale tells the story of an elderly couple who yearned to have a child. They create a little girl out of snow, and she comes to life. Writer Eowyn Ivey reimagined that story in her novel The Snow Child and

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'On Fire For God's Work': How Scott Pruitt's Faith Drives His Politics

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to hear now about the background of a controversial member of the Trump administration, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He's facing at least 10 federal investigations into alleged ethics

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: David Yazbek's mother is Jewish, his father Lebanese. In his newest Broadway musical, The Band Visit, (ph) Mr. Yazbek wanted to write about the meeting of those two cultures. And as Jeff Lunden reports, his show focuses on the comm

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet The Woman Who's Been Pearl Jam's Sound Engineer For 24 Years

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Taking A Crack At A New 'Nutcracker': This One's Set At The World's Fair

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Ballet companies all over the country are putting on The Nutcracker. For most of these companies, this holiday classic helps them to stay in business. In Chicago, a new $4 million production for the Joffrey Ballet premieres tonight

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Among the guests Donald Trump's inauguration tomorrow will be one of his kindred spirits, a fellow populist who railed against immigration and who helped drive an electoral upset that stunned the world. I'm talking about the Brit

美国国家公共电台 NPR Forget 2016 — Here's Some Of 2017's Best Music

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, let's start the new year off with some music. Last week we brought you the hits from 2016, so this week we're going to look ahead at 2017 and check out some fresh new music. (SOUNDBITE OF SINKANE SONG, U'HUH) MARTI

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Compelling — And Chilling

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Handmaid's Tale debuts today on Hulu. It's an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. I saw her once with fans. People love this story even though it is so troubling, a story of authoritarian rule and female oppressi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Thom Yorke On Scoring The New 'Suspiria'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The new film Suspiria is a remake of a cult 1977 Italian horror film. An elite dance company in Berlin might just be a front for a coven of witches. For the film's score, the director, Luca Guadagnino, reached out to one of the hig

美国国家公共电台 NPR Can't Get Comfortable In Your Chair? Here's What You Can Do

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We're going to spend the next several minutes talking about an object that you spend a lot of time with - your chair. Why are so many chairs so bad for people's backs? NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff investigated, and she's written us

'The King's Speech' Wins Coveted Best Picture Oscar

The British drama The King's Speech took top honors at the Academy Awards in Hollywood Sunday evening, earning the Oscar(奥斯卡金像奖) for best picture, and awards for lead actor Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper. The film was also honored fo

Fatal accidents sound alarm for China's road killers

Fatal accidents sound alarm for China's road killers BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Dangerous roads claimed the lives of nearly 800 people in China during the eight-day holiday, leaving heart-broken memories to their families who had been planning reuni