From the Archives: Michael Douglas
To celebrate 15 years of great conversations, we're revisiting Alec's first episode from 2011. Michael Douglas has lived in the same apartme...
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Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin takes listeners into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by going inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and o...
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20 of 505 episodesFrom the Archives: Patricia Bosworth
Mark Twain once likened biographies to "the clothes and buttons of the man" saying "the biography of the man himself cannot be written." The...
From the Archives: Lang Lang
Dubbed "the hottest artist on the classical music planet" by The New York Times, pianist Lang Lang has reached a level of stardom rare for c...
Illeana Douglas’ Love of Movies Knows No Bounds
Illeana Douglas is an Emmy-nominated actress, writer, producer, director, and author whose career spans film, television, and classic-cinema...
From the Archives: Edie Falco
Edie Falco says she is nothing like Carmela Soprano. Nor does she have much in common with Nurse Jackie. But Falco made these characters two...
Daniel Immerwahr on American Empire - Past, Present, and Future
Daniel Immerwahr is a historian, scholar, professor, and author whose work explores U.S. and global history, with a particular focus on the...
From the Archives: Mick Fleetwood Skates Back into the Charts
Mick Fleetwood is the drummer and a founding member of Fleetwood Mac, one of the most successful rock bands of all time. Fleetwood talks to...
Oscar Nominee Josh Fox Invites you to "The Welcome Table"
Josh Fox is an independent filmmaker, playwright, and environmental activist best known for his Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning 2010 docume...
Justine Bateman - Summer Staff Picks
Our summer tradition at Here's the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer St...
Kurt Andersen Has a New Book Out (and it's amazing)
Kurt Andersen has spent four decades chronicling America's culture and politics in both fiction and nonfiction. In 1986, Andersen co-founded...
Jon Anderson - Summer Staff Picks
Our summer tradition at Here's the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer St...
Stephen Root is the Quintessential “Stephen Root Type”
You would recognize Emmy Award-nominated actor Stephen Root from over 300 film and television credits including iconic roles in "Office Spac...
Becca Heller - Summer Staff Picks
Our summer tradition at Here's the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer St...
Richard Kind - Summer Staff Picks
Our summer tradition at Here's the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer St...
Jon Tenney Creates His Next TV Hit
Jon Tenney is a Juilliard-trained actor and director whose work spans film, television, and theater. Best known for portraying FBI Agent Fri...
From the Archives: Peter Frampton
This week on Here's the Thing, Alec talks with Grammy-winning guitarist Peter Frampton. "Sound is very inspirational to me," explains Frampt...
Andres Veiel and Sandra Maischberger Document the Life of Leni Riefenstahl
Andres Veiel is an award-winning German filmmaker, writer, and director renowned for his incisive examinations of history, politics, memory,...
From the Archives: Jon Robin Baitz
Jon Robin Baitz is a playwright who admits that writing plays is tricky. He's a snob for Broadway, where the cachet and laughs are bigger. B...
Movie Exec Jason Fisher on the Next Phase of the Film & TV Industry
Jason Fisher is an award-winning producer, former studio executive, and founder of StageRunner. As former Head of Production at Disney+, Par...
From the Archives: Jacques Pépin
He's worked as the personal chef for French President Charles de Gaulle, co-hosted a television series with Julia Child and has authored ove...