Introducing Backstage Pass with Eric Vetro
There’s one special thing the most famous singers in the world have in common: his name is Eric Vetro.From Ariana Grande to Shawn Mendes to John Legend, vocal coach Eric…
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Polly Walks Out
Polly Nichols had a husband, a young family and lived in a brand new home built by a philanthropic millionaire. Then she walked out on it all. Why?Surviving without a…
Tennis Lessons
Still basking in the glow of the 2021 US Open, Ben and Khalil take a trip down memory lane to talk about what it was like growing up on South…
Psychedelics May Help Solve Addiction
Matthew Johnson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where research is underway to explore the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs to break through the…
Welcome to Whitechapel
London on August 6th, 1888 is one of the greatest cities on Earth, but the Whitechapel neighborhood is a byword for poverty, violence, and vice. Jack the Ripper will slaughter…
‘White Lotus’ Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Cristobal Tapia de Veer is the composer and musician behind Mike Whiteâs HBO show, White Lotus. The sounds in the score range from percussive African and Latin American instruments to…
The Ripper Myth
Jack the Ripper’s victims were prostitutes murdered while selling sex on the streets of Whitechapel – that’s what historian Hallie Rubenhold thought when she started researching the crimes. She was…
Critical Race Theory in the Classroom
Can you stop history from repeating itself? That’s a question Khalil and Ben ponder at the start of this school year amid conservative attacks and legislation across the country on…
Violence, Recovery and Modern Jewish Life with Mark Oppenheimer
Writer Mark Oppenheimer spent the last few years documenting the recovery of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a historic Jewish neighborhood and site of the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue mass…
Climate Change Despondency is Solvable
Malcolm Gladwell with a Waymo self-driving carHost Ronald Young Jr. sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about climate change: the power of individual choices, cultural shifts and what to…
Lindsey Buckingham: Going His Own Way
Lindsey Buckingham’s signature finger-style guitar is perhaps as recognizable as the countless classic songs he wrote while he was in Fleetwood Mac.Buckingham is a self-taught guitar virtuoso and songwriter who…
BONUS: The Science of Happiness and Change
New episodes of A Slight Change of Plans coming every Monday starting October 11th!Maya joins Dr. Laurie Santos (host of The Happiness Lab) to talk about how we can reframe…
