Weekend Edition Saturday
Saturdays 5 - 10 a.m.
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.
Simon also contributes his own award-winning essays, which are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant.
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NPR's Scott Simon recounts the toll of five years of political violence in the U.S. -
The shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk unsettled the nation and is now leading to speculation about the suspect's potential motives.
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Conspirators, codenames and a coup attempt. Looking at the fallout in Brazil after its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was found guilty of plotting to overthrow the government.
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Should college campuses be open to the outside community? More and more schools are asking that question after campus shootings.
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Missouri passed a redistricting plan, the latest in a series of moves triggered by Trump's call on GOP-led states to redraw their congressional maps to help maintain the party's narrow House majority.
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Retired accountant Kent Broussard of Baton Rouge decided to go back to college so he could audition for a spot in the LSU Tigers Marching Band. He made the cut.
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President Trump's crime emergency in Washington, D.C., has ended. But both supporters and critics in D.C. say it will have lasting change.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with political commentator Charlie Sykes about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its effect on political discourse.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss sports.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Prof. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about the latest research on death cap mushrooms, revealing new information about the enigmatic fungus.
