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[REBROADCAST FROM January, 2023] For an installment of our Full Bio series, we speak with John A. Farrell, author of the biography, Ted Kennedy: A Life, about the former Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate. Mayor John F. Collins records, Collection #0244.001, City of Boston Archives, Boston via Wikimedia Commons Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For most people, planning for retirement centers around having enough money to spend. But how to spend your post-work decades is an equally important issue. New York Times personal finance writer Brian O'Connor discusses his recent article is "You’re About to Retire. What Are You Doing for the Next 20 or 30 Years?" Plus, listeners share updates from their retirement. Stock photo via DigitalVision/Getty Creative Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The new show "Youth" stars Sharon Horgan as a woman navigating her dating life in the wake of divorce, and as she cares for her ailing parents and her immature son. Horgan discusses the show, which she created, wrote, and stars in. "Youth" premieres on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, September 20. A new 118-track box set captures the recordings of blues legend Ma Rainey over a prolific five years. Historian David Sager, who provided the set’s liner notes, and musician Gaye Adegbalola, who wrote the forward, discuss Ma Rainey: Mother Of The Blues, The Complete Paramount Recordings 1923-1928. 'Youth' still photograph by Colin Hutton/HBO Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Director Sam Green spent a decade traveling to meet and interview the oldest person in the world at that time, and heading to the next person when the title inevitably shifts. Green discusses the resulting documentary, "The Oldest Person in the World," which opens September 11 at the Angelika Film Center. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

[REBROADCAST FROM June 8, 2026] This year is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. A new documentary, "IX XI," revisits the tragedy by hearing the stories and reflections of 12 people who experienced the attacks from different perspectives. Director Sean Wilsey discusses the film, alongside one of its subjects Stefan Springman, who was at ground zero as a cameraman. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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