Episode summary: In “Bread and Friends,” the final episode in her five-part series for Gravy, producer Irina Zhorov meets Camille Cogswell and Drew DiTomo in the final stages of preparation to open their new bakery. They hope that Walnut Family Bakery will be a…

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Episode summary: The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.

Episode summary: When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job would be “human misery.” She says she remembers thinking, “If there’s one person in the justice system who could do something about human misery, surely, it’s the powerful prosecutor.” Af...

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Episode summary: In “Making That Dough,” the fourth episode in her five-part series for Gravy, producer Irina Zhorov explores the business of cottage bakeries—and how small-scale bakers make amazing loaves out of home kitchens and converted garages….

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Episode summary: Ne Me Quitte Pas is a song about begging someone not to go; of promising the world to them, if they’ll only stay. From Haiti to New York, Provence to Glasgow… in versions by Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield and Scott Walker… we hear stories of what Jacques Brel’s song has meant to peo...

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Episode summary: Today, we’re giving you a sneak peek of an episode from Freakonomics, M.D., a show from the Freakonomics Radio Network. On Freakonomics, M.D., Harvard physician and economist Dr. Bapu Jena digs into fascinating topics and ideas at the intersection of economics and healthcare. In thi...

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Episode summary: Many people take the myth of Demeter — Ceres in Latin — and her daughter Persephone to be just a metaphor for the annual cycle of planting and harvesting. It is, but there may be more to it than that. Why else would it be worth scaring participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries into s...

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Episode summary: The recent mass shootings and a New York gun carrying permit case calls for an examination of the current interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Episode summary: The oligarchs who made their way to London in the early 2000s and changed it presented themselves as embodiments of the new Russia; members of the global elite, and arms-length beneficiaries of Vladimir Putin’s new order, not slaves to it. Those were the terms on which Britain let t...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on neighbouring lands. The youngest son of Malcolm III, he was raised in exile in the Anglo-Norman court and became Earl of Huntingdon and Prince of Cumbria before claiming the throne i...

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