Host Named for New Weekday Afternoon Show

Women Aren't Supposed to Be Angry [View this email in your browser]( Listen to the new podcast The Realness about rap star Prodigy’s life behind the rhymes and his struggles with sickle cell anemia. Find out why Elizabeth Warren most likely will be running for president in 2020. Hear a Snap Judgment story 40 years in the making. And learn the messy truth behind recycling. Featured [Alison Stewart Named WNYC's New Weekday Afternoon Host]( Peabody Award-winning journalist and author Alison Stewart will host a new live, two-hour afternoon show on WNYC. The still-to-be-named show will replace Midday on WNYC starting this fall. ["Hey, We're Here. We're Watching You."]( Volunteer court-watchers are being trained to report on court proceedings in an effort to hold DA's accountable. [WNYC News]( [Elizabeth Warren: "Left, Female and Furious"]( Rebecca Traister of New York magazine profiles Elizabeth Warren as the senator runs for re-election and contemplates a presidential run in 2020. [The Brian Lehrer Show]( [Mandela: An Audio History]( The struggle against apartheid is chronicled through first-person interviews with Nelson Mandela, as well as those who fought with him and against him. [Radio Diaries]( [30 Years of Talking and Writing About Climate Change]( Journalist Andrew Revkin shares the lessons he's learned and what they mean for how humankind might be able to navigate a much warmer future. [On the Media]( Coming Up This Week THU • 9 pm • 93.9 FM A Story 40 Years in the Making In the 1970s, thousands of Vietnamese refugees were stranded on the remote Anambas Islands in Indonesia. Now, almost 40 years later, one woman wants to go back to those distant islands, one last time. [Snap Judgment]( TUE • 9 pm • 93.9 FM ICE Capades Dispatches from a government agency in its tumultuous teenage years. [This American Life]( WED – THU • 9 am • AM 820 • 3 pm • 93.9 FM Women Aren't Supposed to Be Angry This week, Tanzina Vega is talking to women about their RAGE! How they express it and how society reacts when they do. [The Takeaway]( WED • 10 am • AM 820 • 93.9 FM Speak to the Speaker Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council, takes your comments and questions. [The Brian Lehrer Show]( THU • noon • 93.9 FM • AM 820 More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Waste Pollution Find out what's behind the Keep America Beautiful campaign, which shifts environmental responsibility from plastic producers to you. [Midday on WNYC]( Events JULY 30 • 7 pm • The Greene Space [Arturo O'Farrill Live in Concert & Back From the Border]( The six-time Grammy winner brings his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble to The Greene Space for music and conversation, following his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. [Purchase Tickets]( AUG 1 • 6 pm • The Greene Space [Alan Braufman Performs Valley of Search]( Alan Braufman, Cooper-Moore and a full band perform selections from Braufman's jazz album Valley of Search, live for the first time in more than 40 years. Followed by a Q&A. [Reserve Free Tickets]( DEC 6 & 7 • 7:30 pm • Carnegie Hall [Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Live at Carnegie Hall]( Join host Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis, official judge and scorekeeper, for two tapings of the NPR news quiz. [Purchase Tickets]( Podcasts from WNYC Studios [The Life and Death of Rap Legend Prodigy]( The new podcast The Realness takes you behind Prodigy’s music to his life with sickle cell anemia, revealing how his condition touched almost every part of his life: from the sound of his rhymes to the circumstances of his death. [The Realness]( [Three Funny Women]( Michelle Buteau kicks back with Julie Goldman and Franchesca Ramsey. [Late Night Whenever with Michelle Buteau]( [Bo Burnham on the Couch]( Bo Burnham, writer and director of the hit film Eighth Grade, talks about his fascination with the internet. [Late Night Whenever with Michelle Buteau]( [Hot Dates: Open to Open Relationships]( All summer, Death, Sex & Money is following listeners as they date in real time. This week, one reveals a part of her dating life she didn't mention before and another is enjoying her summer break with three different partners. [Death, Sex & Money]( 5 Most Popular Articles This Week 1. [Leaving New York to Find the American Dream in Philadelphia]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 2. [Ocasio-Cortez to Campaign in Kansas]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 3. [Russian Meddling; NYC Acting Globally; After Helsinki; Blindspotting]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 4. This Week]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 5. [Getting Past White Defensiveness]( Staff Pick Jon Hanrahan Assistant Producer, [On the Media]( I'd love to recommend the Twitter account run by — and, folks, stay with me on this one — the [United States Consumer Product Safety Commission](. 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