Person of The Week

By TIME

TIME Senior Correspondent Charlotte Alter hosts candid conversations with the people who shape the world, about the forces that shape them. Tune in each Thursday to meet TIME's Person of the Week.<

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How many episodes does Person of The Week have?

The podcast currently has 2,702 episodes available.

Person of The Week episodes:

May 15, 2022 Ten Dead in Buffalo Supermarket Attack... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Ten Dead in Buffalo Supermarket Attack
2. The West Will Work With the Philippines’ Next President, Even If He Is a Dictator’s Son
3. State Laws Are Treating Fentanyl Like the New Crack—And Making the Same Mistakes of the 80s and 90s
4. Review: Happening Is a Grim But Timely Warning from 1960s France .
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25min
May 14, 2022 Review: The New Top Gun Is So Much Better Than the First One... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Review: The New Top Gun Is So Much Better Than the First One
2. Biden’s Abortion Stance and Catholic Faith Have Never Been More at Odds
3. Why the Bipartisan Push to Prevent Another Jan. 6 Is Running Out of Time
4. Astronomers Capture First Image of Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy .
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31min
May 13, 2022 Why the Bipartisan Push to Prevent Another Jan. 6 Is Running Out of Time... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Why the Bipartisan Push to Prevent Another Jan. 6 Is Running Out of Time
2. Astronomers Capture First Image of Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
3. COVID-19’s Final Frontier: What to Know About North Korea’s ‘Explosive’ Outbreak
4. An Alabama Correctional Officer Helped a Murder Suspect Escape. The Jailbreak Highlights a Bigger Problem
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27min
May 12, 2022 Voting Won’t Save Abortion Rights... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Voting Won’t Save Abortion Rights
2. Why It’s So Hard to Find Baby Formula in the U.S. Right Now
3. Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Personal Info From Search
4. Wheat Crops Almost Everywhere Are Coming Under Threat From Extreme Weather .
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22min
May 11, 2022 How a Digital Abortion Footprint Could Lead to Criminal Charges—And What Congress Can Do About It... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. How a Digital Abortion Footprint Could Lead to Criminal Charges—And What Congress Can Do About It
2. Here’s Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Keep Crashing
3. Musk Says He Would Reverse Twitter’s Ban of Donald Trump
4. Review: Two Former Mr. Darcys Delight in Netflix Espionage Caper Operation Mincemeat .
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23min
May 10, 2022 Column: The Critical Role of Public Defenders in a Post-Roe v. Wade World... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Column: The Critical Role of Public Defenders in a Post-Roe v. Wade World
2. Column: Our Nation Is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War
3. High Gas Prices Are Pushing Electric Car Sales to a Tipping Point
4. Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ Becomes the Most Expensive Work By a U.S. Artist Sold at Auction .
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25min
May 09, 2022 Border Patrol Agents Will No Longer Be Able to Investigate Themselves... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Border Patrol Agents Will No Longer Be Able to Investigate Themselves
2. A Mysterious Hepatitis Outbreak Among Children Is Baffling Doctors
3. Column: Ukraine Shows the Strength of a Free People
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20min
May 08, 2022 After Supreme Court Leak, Republican-led States Ready Legislation to Ban or Criminalize Abortion... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. After Supreme Court Leak, Republican-led States Ready Legislation to Ban or Criminalize Abortion
2. India's Unbearably Hot Schools Show We Must Climate-Proof Education
3. Twitter Is Brilliant. The Damage It’s Done Is Undeniable
4. Why You’re Seeing So Many Johnny Depp Defenders on TikTok .
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33min
May 07, 2022 ‘I Can’t Say No to Mothers in Need.’ The Foreign Women Joining Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. ‘I Can’t Say No to Mothers in Need.’ The Foreign Women Joining Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia
2. In Wisconsin, an 1849 Abortion Ban Could Make for a Chaotic Post-Roe Landscape
3. Taiwan Is Abandoning Its Zero-COVID Strategy in Favor of a ‘New Model’ of Coronavirus Containment
4. $125,000 Hotel Rooms. $23,000 Tickets. Formula 1 Makes Its American Arrival
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33min
May 06, 2022 Routine Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell as Misinformation About the COVID-19 Shot Rose... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Routine Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell as Misinformation About the COVID-19 Shot Rose
2. ‘It’s an Apathy Remover.’ The End of Roe Could Galvanize Democrats’ Burned-Out Base
3. What to Know About BA.2.12.1, the New Variant Spreading in the U.S.
4. South Korea’s Intelligence Agency Has Joined NATO’s Cyber Defense Unit. China Isn’t Happy
5. Israel Says Putin Has Apologized for His Foreign Minister’s Holocaust Remarks .
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24min

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How many episodes does Person of The Week have?

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