Life in Seven Songs
By The San Francisco Standard
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What songs tell your life story? Host Sophie Bearman asks this question of some of the world’s most fascinating people. Through seven songs, guests reveal the milestones—and the music—that have shaped their lives. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Al Roker shares his life story through seven joyful songs
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Seven songs that shaped Kris Bowers, the composer behind ‘Bridgerton’
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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How music shaped Maria Konnikova, from PhD psychologist to poker champion
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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BD Wong on music, identity, and fighting for Asian American visibility
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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How Hinge founder Justin McLeod’s love story shaped a dating empire
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Go-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle says her life got interesting when she got sober
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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ENCORE: Why Kara Swisher loves country music and the military
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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How actress Mayim Bialik is rethinking her worth after a lifetime in the spotlight
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Inside musician John Grant’s pain: Seven songs that saved his life
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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31 and done: Why F1 champ Nico Rosberg walked away at the top
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Baking star Christina Tosi on the soundtrack behind her cookie empire
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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How Taylor Swift got TV writer Michael Schur out of a rut
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Introducing 'Pacific Standard Time'
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Why Andrew Ahn remade the first gay film he ever saw
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Trump fired him, but Preet Bharara is still defending the country he loves
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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How actress Pepi Sonuga keeps the faith, even when Hollywood says 'We don't need you'
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Drag queen and activist Peppermint finds joy even when there’s ‘no tears left to cry’
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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How music taught culture critic Sam Sanders to be grateful for his grief
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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From the South Bronx to Sesame Street: How Sonia Manzano made Maria a Latina icon
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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From Mozart to Drake: The music that moves Misty Copeland
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Riding waves and weathering life’s storms with surfer-turned-writer Jamie Brisick
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Special Episode: The songs that shaped our listeners’ lives (and Sophie’s, too)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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How I Met Your Mother gave Josh Radnor 'identity vertigo.' Ayahuasca set him straight.
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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How TV’s favorite couples therapist, Dr. Orna Guralnik, found her interior life through music
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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'Everyone’s seen my tits': Keeley Hazell on reclaiming the narrative in her new memoir
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Amanda Knox survived a living nightmare. Flight of the Conchords helped.
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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ENCORE: How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Mary Louise Kelly: NPR host, war reporter, mother … spy novelist?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Biographer of geniuses Walter Isaacson on the songs and city that made him
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Best-selling author Jason Reynolds writes the YA books he never had
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The music, movie stars and murder trial that shaped actor Griffin Dunne
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Joan Osborne got famous for 'One of Us' — but finding her own voice took decades
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Death, Sex, Money – and music: The mixtape to podcaster Anna Sale’s life
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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W. Kamau Bell on fighting white supremacy — but keeping it funny
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May 27, 2025 |
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The White Lotus’ Natasha Rothwell on the 'angsty' music that shaped her
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May 13, 2025 |
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How Damian Woetzel jeté-ed his way from ballet phenom to head of The Juilliard School
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Embracing ‘amor prohibido’ with singer David Archuleta
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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John, Yoko, and a 'beautiful boy': How author David Sheff's life was shaped by three relationships
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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America, the broken? Richard Misrach photographs the country's splendor and scars
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Held captive in Iran, Sarah Shourd found solace in a Seal song
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Rufus Wainwright’s rough road to becoming ‘the greatest songwriter on the planet’
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Inside actor Rita Wilson's other life as a singer
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Director Cord Jefferson on winning an Oscar and writing for love
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Introducing Professional Book Nerds: An Interview with Daniel Handler
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Failing publicly and feeling at home with Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Rock photographer Jay Blakesberg on capturing the souls of legends
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Sandra Bernhard’s ‘risky, beautiful, and heartbreaking’ life
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Chesa Boudin, raised by radicals, on the songs that shaped him
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Rahsaan “New York” Thomas on breaking barriers behind bars
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Why Kara Swisher loves country music and the military
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Turns out, Mark Cuban is an emotional guy
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Introducing American Masters: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Can Do That Genre Too!
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman: the human behind the machine
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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How Rhodessa Jones went from nude dancer to theater icon
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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What Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, says about terror
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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What inspired the original starchitect, Lord Norman Foster
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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How comedy saved Margaret Cho’s life
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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‘Life in Seven Songs’ full theme song
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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He shaped the iPhone—so what shaped Jony Ive?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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D’Wayne Wiggins on Tony! Toni! Toné!, Beyoncé and beyond
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The truth hurts with SF Mayor London Breed
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Introducing ‘Life in Seven Songs’
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May 29, 2024 |