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Weekend Edition Sunday for May 18, 2008
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
[Program Website]
News coverage from around the world with analysis, interviews and cultural features, hosted by NPR’s Liane Hansen.
Weekend Edition Sunday premiered on January 18, 1987, and was the last of NPR’s major newsmagazines to hit air. Since then, Weekend Edition Sunday has covered newsmakers and artists, scientists and politicans, music makers of all kinds, writers, thinkers, theologians and all manner of news events. Hosted originally by Susan Stamberg, the show has been anchored by Liane Hansen since 1989.
On Sundays, Weekend Edition combines the news with colorful arts and human-interest features, appealing to the curious and eclectic. With a nod to traditional Sunday habits, the program offers a fix for diehard crossword addicts—word games and brainteasers with The Puzzlemaster, a.k.a. Will Shortz, puzzle editor of The New York Times.
Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz have been with the program from the beginning, and a wide variety of commentators and essayists help round out the weekly offerings. Humorist Andy Borowitz slings satirical arrows at big-shots, celebrities, and politicans of all stripes. Diane Roberts takes a sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant view of life in the South, and transplanted Brit Tim Brookes offers his impressions of life on these shores.
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