The Brian Lehrer Show

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Episodes: 150

AO
 Aug 26, 2019
Brian is one of the best interviewers around.

JDS
 Mar 27, 2019
Top Notch Interviews, Really Well Done, It's One of My Favorite Podcasts Out there!

David
 Jul 11, 2018
Leonard is the king of WNYC and New York in general, providing glorious, locally focused news.

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Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.

Episode Date
Dan Doctoroff's New York
Apr 18, 2024
CM Abreu on Tipping and Rat Control
Apr 18, 2024
Who Are You Tracking?
Apr 18, 2024
Tri-Polar World
Apr 18, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: State Budget, Control Over NYC Schools and More
Apr 17, 2024
Gov. Hochul's Take on the Budget Deal
Apr 17, 2024
Supreme Court: Considering Obstruction for Jan. 6 Rioters and a Decision on Transgender Health Care for Kids
Apr 17, 2024
The History of Arab-American Immigration
Apr 17, 2024
Call Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand on Child Care for Police, Israel's Response to Iran and More
Apr 16, 2024
How Climate Change Drives Deer Populations
Apr 16, 2024
How the FAFSA Debacle is Affecting Students' College Plans
Apr 16, 2024
George Takei on 'My Lost Freedom'
Apr 16, 2024
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Personal Take on History
Apr 15, 2024
Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani on the State Budget
Apr 15, 2024
The Former President on Trial in Manhattan
Apr 15, 2024
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Listening on Israel & Gaza; MENA Added to Census; Gen Z Taking Up Trades
Apr 13, 2024
Jobs, Inflation & Politics
Apr 12, 2024
Black Country Music: Tracing Its Past to Beyoncé
Apr 12, 2024
Still No Budget in Albany
Apr 12, 2024
LGBTQ Catholics React to the Vatican's New Statement on Gender Theory
Apr 12, 2024
Ask Governor Murphy: April Recap
Apr 11, 2024
Gen Z Taking Up Trades
Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Morning Politics: Speaker Johnson's High-Wire Act
Apr 11, 2024
Do Teenagers Still Babysit?
Apr 11, 2024
Smoking in Secret
Apr 10, 2024
What’s in Biden’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan?
Apr 10, 2024
The Art of Listening on Israel and Gaza
Apr 10, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: Homelessness on the Subway, Mayoral Control of Schools and More
Apr 10, 2024
How Fracking Can Cause Earthquakes
Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Morning Politics: Abortion and the 2024 Election
Apr 09, 2024
Reactions to the Total Solar Eclipse
Apr 09, 2024
Covering Crime, Public Safety and the Cops
Apr 09, 2024
Prepping for the Eclipse
Apr 08, 2024
Jobs, Trade & Politics
Apr 08, 2024
NYPD's Chief of Patrol Talks Public Safety, Crime Stats and More
Apr 08, 2024
Changes to the Census Include People of Middle Eastern and North African Descent
Apr 08, 2024
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Judith Butler; Driverless Cars; English Words on Loan
Apr 06, 2024
An Earthquake and an Eclipse
Apr 05, 2024
Live Earthquake Coverage: MTA Chair Lieber, Calls from the Epicenter & More
Apr 05, 2024
Biden's Warning to Netanyahu Over Gaza
Apr 05, 2024
Transportation Roundup: Post-Earthquake Infrastructure Update and NJ's Case Against Congestion Pricing
Apr 05, 2024
Updates on Local Earthquake
Apr 05, 2024
Housing Roundup: State Budget, Property Taxes, 'Squatters'
Apr 04, 2024
English 'Loan Words' in Your Language
Apr 04, 2024
The Truth Social and Reddit IPOs
Apr 04, 2024
Judith Butler on Gender
Apr 04, 2024
A View from Israel
Apr 03, 2024
What's In a Middle Name?
Apr 03, 2024
Faith & Politics & Ex-Evangelicals
Apr 03, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: The Mayor Versus the Media, When NYPD Engage and More
Apr 03, 2024
Returning to Religion
Apr 02, 2024
Is Trump a Fascist?
Apr 02, 2024
Lawmakers Push to Include the NY HEAT Act in the State Budget
Apr 02, 2024
Guns Aren't Just a Big City Problem
Apr 02, 2024
What Austin Can Teach NYC About Housing
Apr 01, 2024
Monday Morning Politics: Campaign Donors
Apr 01, 2024
Robotaxis on New York City Streets?
Apr 01, 2024
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Congestion Pricing Details; Child Actors; A 'Funner' Guide to English Usage
Mar 30, 2024
New York State's Late Budget
Mar 29, 2024
Kara Swisher's 'Tech Love Story'
Mar 29, 2024
Congestion Pricing Moves Ahead
Mar 29, 2024
How the City Hopes to Solve the Housing Crisis
Mar 28, 2024
Our Maritime and Bridge Infrastructure
Mar 28, 2024
Congestion Pricing and You
Mar 28, 2024
The Dark Side of Children's Television
Mar 28, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: Two Deaths, Public Safety, and More
Mar 27, 2024
The Supreme Court and Abortion Access
Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Morning Politics: A New Poll; Support for Taxing the Rich
Mar 27, 2024
Josh Gosfield's 'The Atlas of Emotions'
Mar 27, 2024
Alleged Abuse at Rikers Comes to Light
Mar 26, 2024
Early Voting in NY's Primary Underway
Mar 26, 2024
Climate and the New York State Budget
Mar 26, 2024
A 'Funner' Guide to Language Usage
Mar 26, 2024
Is it Safe to Fly on a Boeing Plane?
Mar 26, 2024
What's Going on With Dating Apps?
Mar 25, 2024
Monday Morning Politics: US Ceasefire Resolution, Ukraine Aid, and more
Mar 25, 2024
'Standing Together' For Peace
Mar 25, 2024
Trump’s Continuing Legal Troubles
Mar 25, 2024
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Subway Safety; NYC's At-Risk Languages
Mar 23, 2024
Defining 'Blackness' Through Literature
Mar 22, 2024
Birth Control Misinformation Flourishes on Social Media
Mar 22, 2024
The Story of Rosalind Franklin and Other Women Pioneers of Science
Mar 22, 2024
New Jersey's Affordable Housing Fix
Mar 22, 2024
A Tour of New York City's Endangered Languages
Mar 21, 2024
The Crisis Unfolding in Haiti
Mar 21, 2024
Council Members on 'Community-Controlled' Affordable Housing
Mar 21, 2024
Mehdi Hasan on Gaza, US Politics & More
Mar 21, 2024
How Anti-Semitism on the Right and Left Threatens the Golden Era of the Jewish Diaspora
Mar 20, 2024
Caitlin Clark and This Moment in Women's Sports
Mar 20, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: Subway Safety, Dissatisfaction and A New Lawsuit
Mar 20, 2024
Are Student Athletes Employees?
Mar 20, 2024
The Feminist Reasoning Behind South Korea's Plummeting Birth Rate
Mar 19, 2024
Chef Andrés in the Kitchen and in Conflict Zones
Mar 19, 2024
Responding to Fear on the Subways
Mar 19, 2024
New York's (and America's) First Offshore Wind Farm
Mar 19, 2024
Monday Morning Politics: Schumer, Netanyahu and Biden
Mar 18, 2024
Women's Rights Around the World
Mar 18, 2024
NYC's Pledge to Extend Life Expectancy
Mar 18, 2024
Good Cause Eviction and New York's Housing Crisis
Mar 18, 2024
Speaker Adams on the State of the City
Mar 15, 2024
1000 Wordles Later
Mar 15, 2024
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Women Seeking Economic Equality; Systemic Racism Explained; 1000 Wordles Later
Mar 15, 2024
How a Cease-Fire Could Work
Mar 15, 2024
Jay Caspian Kang on 'The Ideology of the Internet'
Mar 15, 2024
Ramadan Begins
Mar 14, 2024
Jonathan Capehart on Biden's Campaign Strategy
Mar 14, 2024
Ask Governor Murphy: March Recap
Mar 14, 2024
Your Stories of Perfectionism
Mar 14, 2024
Pres. Biden's Budget Proposal and Comparing Tax Policies
Mar 13, 2024
TikTok's Fate in Congress
Mar 13, 2024
Your 'Malicious Compliance' Stories
Mar 13, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: From the National Guard to Pickpocket Crews
Mar 13, 2024
The Millennial 'Micro-Generation'
Mar 12, 2024
Women Seeking Economic Equality
Mar 12, 2024
What's Next for the Museum of Chinese in America?
Mar 12, 2024
Comparing Biden and Trump on Climate Change
Mar 12, 2024
Systemic Racism Explained
Mar 11, 2024
What Happened at the Oscars
Mar 11, 2024
The National Guard Comes to the Subways
Mar 11, 2024
Monday Morning Politics: Biden, Israel and Gaza
Mar 11, 2024
Brian Lehrer Weekend: How Memory Works; Assessing Israel-Gaza; Public Song Project
Mar 09, 2024
Assessing Where Israel Went Wrong in Gaza
Mar 08, 2024
NYC Public High School Admissions Offers
Mar 08, 2024
The State of the Union, According to President Biden
Mar 08, 2024
NYC Moves Toward Saying Goodbye to Mountains of Plastic Trash Bags
Mar 08, 2024
Finding Your Hobby: Mahjong
Mar 07, 2024
What We Learned From California's Competitive Senate Primary
Mar 07, 2024
Parents Brace for More Cuts to 3K and Pre-K
Mar 07, 2024
Ten Question Quiz: NYC Mayors
Mar 07, 2024
How Memory Works
Mar 07, 2024
Finding Your Hobby: Woodworking
Mar 06, 2024
Reporters Ask the Mayor: Subway Crime, FBI Investigation and More
Mar 06, 2024
Ten Question Quiz: This Year's Oscars
Mar 06, 2024
Introducing the 2024 Public Song Project
Mar 06, 2024
Super Tuesday Takeaways
Mar 06, 2024
Navigating the CDC's Updated COVID Isolation Guidelines
Mar 05, 2024
Finding Your Hobby: Stamp Collecting
Mar 05, 2024
Using Humor to Fight for Climate Mitigation
Mar 05, 2024
Ten Question Quiz: Commuter Rails
Mar 05, 2024
Explaining Trump's Major Indictments and More
Mar 05, 2024
How Many Steps a Day Do You Really Need?
Mar 04, 2024
Meet the New Council Members: Yusef Salaam
Mar 04, 2024
Ten Question Quiz: Subway Stops
Mar 04, 2024
Finding Your Hobby: Glass Arts
Mar 04, 2024
Monday Morning Politics: Super Tuesday Preview
Mar 04, 2024
Appliances That Lasted
Mar 01, 2024
Finding Your Hobby: Ceramics
Mar 01, 2024
Continued Challenges for African Asylum Seekers
Mar 01, 2024
Freakonomics on Feynman
Mar 01, 2024
Ten Question Quiz: Women’s History
Mar 01, 2024