Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.
Drawing on his experience in covering 10 wars and stories in all 50 states and seven continents, Simon brings a humorous, sophisticated and often moving perspective to each show. He is as comfortable having a conversation with a major world leader as he is talking with a Hollywood celebrity or the guy next door.
Weekend Edition Saturday has a unique and entertaining roster of other regular contributors. Marin Alsop, conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, talks about music. Daniel Pinkwater, one of the biggest names in children's literature, talks about and reads stories with Simon. Financial journalist Joe Nocera follows the economy. Howard Bryant of EPSN.com and NPR's Tom Goldman chime in on sports. Keith Devlin, of Stanford University, unravels the mystery of math, and Will Grozier, a London cabbie, talks about good books that have just been released, and what well-read people leave in the back of his taxi. Simon contributes his own award-winning essays, which are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant.
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NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.
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Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are digesting that one of their own is now the head of the Catholic Church.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Elizabeth Threlkeld, a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, about rising tensions between India and Pakistan.
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The Rubber Duck Museum in Pt. Roberts, Wash., is moving because Canadians are no longer coming to the border town. Neil and Krystal King tell NPR's Scott Simon why.
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John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.
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Dave Barry says he's always been the "class clown." His new book looks back at his "first 77 years," examining the funny but also the tragic. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the Pulitzer Prize winner.
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After targeting each other's airbases, Pakistan and India say they are open to de-escalation.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva, Switzerland, for trade talks as the Trump administration pushes for progress in its trade wars.
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The Trump administration is not eager to involve itself in international conflicts like the one between India and Pakistan.
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Russia's celebration this weekend of the Soviet victory over the Nazis 80 years ago comes under the shadow of its invasion of Ukraine.