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What songs tell your life story?
We ask this question of some of the world’s most fascinating people. Through seven songs, guests reveal the milestones—and the music—that have shaped their lives.
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Sept. 2, 2025
How TV’s favorite couples therapist, Dr. Orna Guralnik, found her interior life through music
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Aug. 26, 2025
'Everyone’s seen my tits': Keeley Hazell on reclaiming the narrative in her new memoir
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Amanda Knox survived a living nightmare. 2000s power ballads helped.
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Aug. 12, 2025
ENCORE: How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies
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Mary Louise Kelly: NPR host, war reporter, mother … spy novelist?
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Biographer of geniuses Walter Isaacson on the songs and city that made him
In our first ever live episode, recorded at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival, Sophie sits down with Walter Isaacson, the acclaimed journalist behind the definitive biographies of visionaries like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Leona...