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Nature: Penguins in Patagonia

We leave you this Sunday morning in Chile, with penguins in Patagonia. Videographer: Michael Clark.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 03:34

Charles M. Blow on the crisis facing local newspapers

By some estimates, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished since 2005, with an estimated two newspapers closing each week. As funding for public broadcasting also shrinks, political analyst Charles M. Blow talks about the importance of local media as the connective tissue of communities – an essential public good jeopardized by industry consolidation and funding cuts.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 02:42

A cross-border landmark faces a restrictive new future

For more than a century, a unique cross-border institution has straddled the line between Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont: The Haskell Free Library & Opera House, where visitors from both countries can freely mix, sharing literacy, culture and friendship. But now, the Trump administration has instituted new rules, restricting access to visitors from Canada. Lee Cowan reports on how a symbol of unity and friendship has now become marked by division.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 06:37

The power of reunions

This past week witnessed a whiplash of emotions likely never to be forgotten, as Israeli and Palestinian families were reunited with loved ones who had been held hostage or prisoner. Steve Hartman talks with Lorrie Stirm Kitching about the experience of being reunited with her father, Air Force Major Robert Stirm, after he was released from a North Vietnamese prison in 1973.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 02:23

Extended interview: Ben Stiller

In this web exclusive actor-director Ben Stiller talks with Jim Axelrod about his Apple TV documentary about his parents, "Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost," and about how making the film became a reflection not just on their lives but on his own.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 33:06

Ben Stiller on his film tribute to parents Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were a beloved comedy team – and the parents of actor-director Ben Stiller. After the deaths of his mother and father, Stiller sought to pay tribute as few sons could: a documentary about their lives on-stage and off. But even he didn't anticipate to what depths his film, "Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost," would go. Stiller talks with Jim Axelrod about how examining the lives of two comedy greats led to re-examining his own.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 08:52

Ms. Rachel on raising her voice for kids everywhere

To millions of toddlers (and their parents), YouTube star Rachel Griffin Accurso's voice is unmistakable. Her music-filled "Ms. Rachel" videos are cleverly-designed language development lessons, with billions of views, while her global brand now extends to books, toys, and a Netflix deal. She talks with Jo Ling Kent about how she came to music education, and about collaborating with her husband, composer Aron Accurso. She also defends her advocacy for children around the world, including in war-torn Gaza.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 07:42

Josh Seftel's mom on baseball

Just in time for the World Series, filmmaker Josh Seftel talked with his mom, Pat, about the national pastime and her recent visit to the ballpark. "In this world, nowadays," she says, "you need more baseball."

• Oct 19, 2025
• 02:54

Extended interview: Tim Curry

In 2012 actor Tim Curry suffered a stroke, after which he had to relearn how to speak. In this web exclusive, the steadfastly private Curry talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his memoir "Vagabond," and his life, career, and medical story.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 27:13

The enigma of Tim Curry

In 50 years on screen, Tim Curry, star of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Clue" and "It," has played roles campy, comical, and menacingly sinister, yet his most inscrutable role is still Tim Curry. The actor talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his memoir "Vagabond" (which is decidedly not a Hollywood tell-all); the stroke he suffered in 2012, and learning how to speak again; and why he never sought to curry stardom.

• Oct 19, 2025
• 08:05