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Have you ever wondered exactly how your favorite movie or book –– or podcast, TV series, documentary film, or magazine article –– got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hearts (and to ours). Nothing is off the table: not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes. Intimate and incisive, instructive and eye-opening, Origin Stories is the ultimate podcast for anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind. New episodes every Wednesday!
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Caleb Gayle on Black Moses
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni on Search Engine
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Mo Amer on Mo
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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David Greene on David Greene is Obsessed
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Lizzy Goodman on Meet Me In the Bathroom
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Brad Lichtenstein on American Reckoning
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Alexis Coe on You Never Forget Your First
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Tommy Andres on The Eye of the Fighter
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Selwyn Seyfu Hinds on Washington Black
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Mandy Matney on the Murdaugh Murders Podcast
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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David Digilio on The Terminal List
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Dana Fox on Wicked
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Janet Reitman on A Disaster of the U.S. Military’s Own Making
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Introducing So Your Parents Are Old
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Lorelei Lee on Cash/Consent
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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James Vanderbilt on Nuremberg
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Clint Smith on How the Word Is Passed
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Gilbert King on Bone Valley
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Evan Ratliff on Shell Game
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Bonnie Tsui on Why We Swim
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Roy Wood Jr. on The Man of Many Fathers
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Introducing Zero to Well-Read
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Introducing Bad Elizabeth
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Mitch Albom on Twice
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Steve Burns on Alive with Steve Burns
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Debora Cahn on The Diplomat
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Max Minghella on Shell
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Brian Goldstone on There Is No Place for Us
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Stephanie Foo on What My Bones Know
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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John Robert Hoffman on Only Murders in the Building
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Yousef Srouji on Three Promises
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Mimi Leder on The Morning Show
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Patrick Radden Keefe on Say Nothing
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Connie Walker on Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Dan Taberski on Hysterical
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Noah Hawley on Alien: Earth
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Introducing, Origin Stories
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Aug 14, 2025 |