Dec 1st, 2008 · HBO's new mini-series, House of Saddam, chronicles the life of the former Iraqi dictator. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays Hussein's wife and writer-director Alex Holmes discuss the challenges they faced in portraying the leader's complex family.
Oct 2nd, 2008 · Delilah is the big thing on the radio at night with an audience of 25 million people. The smooth nighttime radio DJ takes requests and plays dedications. She's become the Oprah Winfrey of radio and has a mini-empire.
Aug 13th, 2008 · Steve Inskeep has today's Last Word in business.
Jul 12th, 2008 · The new HBO mini-series Generation Kill focuses its lens on March 2003, when the U.S. first went to war in Iraq. Susanna White, one of the directors of the miniseries, talks with Linda Wertheimer about creating a realistic depiction of the start of war.
Jun 25th, 2008 · Not enough people have heard the music of Sam Phillips and we want to change that. Sam Phillips writes perfect under 3 minute mini drama's and shapes them into singable stories. We asked her to sing some of her songs and invited her to play an intimate concert at my desk. After hearing our Tiny Desk Concert with Laura Gibson she was eager to do it. Little did we know that our air conditioning would die on a record breaking heat wave of a day. Sam Phillips performs 4 songs with help from Erik Gorfain on electric guitar and his tiny cigarette boxed size amps. He also plays a Stroh violin. You have to see this contraption to believe it.
Jun 14th, 2008 · A mini-drama unfolded millions of miles away this week near the North Pole of Mars when NASA's robotic lander Phoenix had trouble with a shovel-full of dirt. NPR's science correspondent David Kestenbaum wonders if there is life among the dirt on Mars.
Apr 24th, 2008 · The three Seattle sisters — ages 11, 14 and 16 — have opened for Pearl Jam, Death Cab for Cutie, and Sleater-Kinney. This week, they played two new, unrecorded songs in an actual BPP cubicle. Watch video of the Smoosh mini-concert.
Apr 22nd, 2008 · Portland, Ore. folksinger Laura Gibson was a good sport when we invited her to play a mini-concert for us at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. She drew a small crowd of curious office workers while playing a handful of delicately crafted songs from her latest CD, If You Come to Greet Me.