NPR Topics: Pop Culture Podcast: Episodes
Stories: 1) Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies 2) In 'Iron Man 3,' A Metalhead Gets The Blues 3) A 'Decadent And Depraved' Derby With Hunter S. Thompson 4) Pat Sajak: 'I Didn't See Myself As A Game Show Host'
Stories: 1) In Gritty Sao Paulo, Artists Take To The Streets 2) So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee 3) Two Daytime Soaps Return, But Will Fans Follow Online? 4) Anti-Drug PSAs: Do They Work?
Stories: 1) Listening Back To An Interview With Phil Ramone 2) This Spring, Rejoice At Rebirth Of 'Mad Men' 3) NBC Has More Problems Than Just 'Tonight Show' Hosts 4) As Audiences Shift To Cable, TV Programming Changes, Too
Stories: 1) How Ellen DeGeneres Helped Change The Conversation About Gays 2) TV's Musical Dramas Aren't Always Worth Singing About
Stories: 1) Two New TV Dramas Look Below The Surface 2) A Measured Look At Roth As The Writer Turns 80 3) Timeline: Gay Marriage In Law, Pop Culture And The Courts 4) Imperfect Gentleman Says Being Persian Is Hip
Stories: 1) A New TV Type: The Spunky, Obsessive Female 'Hummingbird' 2) Angry Birds TV, Coming To A Mobile Screen Near You 3) From Tweeting To Meeting Lance Armstrong
Stories: 1) A Multimedia Journey Through 'The Persian Square' 2) Nicki Minaj Challenges 'Idol's' Inflexible Formula 3) Young Chinese Translate America, One Show At A Time 4) Thirty Years Later, 'Hazzard' Still 'A Good-Old-Boy Thing'
Stories: 1) Who Won Oscar Gold Last Night? 2) High Honors For Actress Deavere Smith 3) Historical Vocab: When We Get It Wrong, Does It Matter? 4) Remembering The Man Who Made The Daleks A Metallic Menace
Stories: 1) Home Video Review: 'On The Waterfront' 2) 'Reader's Digest' Fails To 'Adapt To Internet Speed' 3) Al Roker 'Jazzed' By The A-Team Theme Song 4) Celebrated British Writer Derides Kate Middleton As 'Shop-Window Mannequin'
Stories: 1) Video Game Violence: Why Do We Like It, And What's It Doing To Us? 2) Grammy Awards: Winners, Losers & Wardrobe Risks 3) Man Of Tomorrow: Superman, Orson Scott Card And Me
Stories: 1) Super Bowl Ads: Winners And Losers 2) The TV Bad Guys We Can't Help But Love 3) New York's Grimy Garment District Hatches Designers' Dreams 4) Literary Types Find Love In 'The New York Review Of Books'
Stories: 1) Watch This: Neil Gaiman's Imaginative Favorites 2) FX To Debut '80 Cold War Drama 'The Americans' 3) 'House Of Cards' Is Built To Last 4) In Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat
Stories: 1) 'Friends' Will Be There For You At Beijing's Central Perk 2) Alec Baldwin Bids Goodbye To Jack Donaghy 3) Is Honey Boo Boo Hazardous? 4) Lives Of Praise, Lives In Progress On 'The Sisterhood'
Stories: 1) 'Hillary Clinton's Husband' And The Golden Globes 2) Home Video Review: 'Slings And Arrows' 3) Whole Foods Founder John Mackey On Fascism And 'Conscious Capitalism' 4) In A Fragmented Cultureverse, Can Pop References Still Pop?
Stories: 1) Russell Peters, 'Notorious' And Unapologetic 2) Season Two Brings Changes For 'Girls' 3) 'Living' In Color, Long Before 'Girls' 4) Fifty Years Later, Bits Of Our Own Reality Reflected In 'Jetsons' Future
Stories: 1) Oprah's Network Sees 10 Straight Months Of Growth 2) 'Downton' Returns With Aristocratic Class And Clash 3) Pixar Artist Picks Up His 'Heroic' New Year's Resolution 4) 'The Americans': Looking Back On The Cold War 'Fondly'
Stories: 1) The Rebirth Of Rye Whiskey And Nostalgia For 'The Good Stuff' 2) Online Videos: Not Just Made By Amateurs Anymore 3) Aziz Ansari's Latest Is 'Dangerously Delicious' 4) Will Hollywood Catch Up To A Changing Audience?
Stories: 1) Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Of Lost Mail) 2) Danica McKellar: Billy Joel Helped Teen Stress 3) Hitler's Hot In India
Stories: 1) Arab-American Comedienne: No Apology For Jokes 2) Behind The Scenes Of The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' 3) TV Shows Shouldn't Rely On 'Cheap Tricks'
Stories: 1) Boxes Of TV Fun, Old And New, For The Holidays 2) PBS Remixes 'Reading Rainbow,' Delights Map And Book Nerds Everywhere 3) 40 Years On, 'Free To Be' Still Resonates