Moms In Translation

As we head toward a new year, former Rough Translation host Gregory Warner reflects on "goal disengagement" — letting go of past goals, rather than coming up with New Year resolutions. He recommends three of his favorite episodes aligned with this theme for Rough Translation fans ... Show More

In this bonus episode of Love Commandos, Gregory Warner interviews musician John Ellis, who composed Rough Translation's original theme music in 2017, and songwriters Amira Gill and VASU, who jointly created the new theme song for Love Commandos. They discuss their musical proces ... Show More

In Episode 5 of Love Commandos, couples seeking to shut down the Love Commandos' shelter band together for a risky plan. Want to hear bonus episodes of Love Commandos? Sign up for Embedded+ at plus.npr.org/embedded. Subscribe to host Gregory Warner's Rough Transition substack new ... Show More

Sandi Toksvig reads from and talks about her latest book, A Slice of the Moon, an action-packed story of one family's journey across the world as they leave behind their home in Ireland during the potato famine and travel to America 

A German woman discovered that her childhood home was stolen from a Jewish family who fled Nazi Germany. Last year, she tracked down the address of one of the children, and wrote him a letter. 

That was it. He was going to kill her. Sato, a bachelor, a young man who still lived with his mother terrorized her within the walls of her own home.Sure, she could still go out, enjoy her life, but Sato had control over the household in a way that made her feel suffocated. Trapp ... Show More

Today on the show, we're bringing you the stories of two families grappling with how best to communicate across linguistic differences. In the first story, a young man sorts through how to talk to his parents about gender in Chinese, where the words for "he" and "she" sound exact ... Show More

In April of 2017, a 43-year-old woman in Pennsylvania was getting ready to take a trip to her native Poland to visit her father for his birthday. Then, just before she was set to leave on the trip, she canceled via text, simply stating that she wouldn’t be able to come. But her p ... Show More

Original Airdate: March 3, 2009Oprah explores the stories of four young children who were abused. At age 6, Danielle could not speak a word. After years of abuse Danielle was eventually rescued. She was adopted by Bernie and Diane Lierow. In March 2008, a Honduran boy, Jason, was ... Show More

En septiembre de 2018 la policía de Reino Unido hizo uno de los hallazgos más insólitos de los tiempos modernos: el cadáver de una mujer a la que su familia seguía tratando como si estuviera viva.En este episodio hablaremos acerca la historia de la Familia Yasutake, que sorprendi ... Show More

He was the boy who never came home – the teenager whose innocent face has haunted generations of Irish parents. Now, the disappearance of schoolboy Philip Cairns 35 years ago is the subject of a new book which firmly turns the attention on a paedophile DJ and his peculiar undergr ... Show More