32 Episodes

  1. Joan Osborne got famous for 'One of Us' — but finding her own voice took decades

    Published: 6/24/2025
  2. Death, Sex, Money – and music: The mixtape to podcaster Anna Sale’s life

    Published: 6/10/2025
  3. W. Kamau Bell on fighting white supremacy — but keeping it funny

    Published: 5/27/2025
  4. The White Lotus’ Natasha Rothwell on the 'angsty' music that shaped her

    Published: 5/13/2025
  5. How Damian Woetzel jeté-ed his way from ballet phenom to head of The Juilliard School

    Published: 4/29/2025
  6. Embracing ‘amor prohibido’ with singer David Archuleta

    Published: 4/15/2025
  7. John, Yoko, and a 'beautiful boy': How author David Sheff's life was shaped by three relationships

    Published: 4/1/2025
  8. America, the broken? Richard Misrach photographs the country's splendor and scars

    Published: 3/18/2025
  9. Held captive in Iran, Sarah Shourd found solace in a Seal song

    Published: 3/4/2025
  10. Rufus Wainwright’s rough road to becoming ‘the greatest songwriter on the planet’

    Published: 2/18/2025
  11. Inside actor Rita Wilson's other life as a singer

    Published: 2/4/2025
  12. Director Cord Jefferson on winning an Oscar and writing for love

    Published: 1/21/2025
  13. Introducing Professional Book Nerds: An Interview with Daniel Handler

    Published: 1/14/2025
  14. Failing publicly and feeling at home with Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia

    Published: 1/7/2025
  15. Rock photographer Jay Blakesberg on capturing the souls of legends

    Published: 12/17/2024
  16. Sandra Bernhard’s ‘risky, beautiful, and heartbreaking’ life

    Published: 12/3/2024
  17. Chesa Boudin, raised by radicals, on the songs that shaped him

    Published: 11/19/2024
  18. Rahsaan “New York” Thomas on breaking barriers behind bars

    Published: 11/5/2024
  19. Why Kara Swisher loves country music and the military

    Published: 10/22/2024
  20. Turns out, Mark Cuban is an emotional guy

    Published: 10/8/2024

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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 other Tuesday.