Barrie Hardymon
Barrie Hardymon is the Senior Editor at NPR's Weekend Edition, and the lead editor for books. You can hear her on the radio talking everything from Middlemarch to middle grade novels, and she's also a frequent panelist on NPR's podcasts It's Been A Minute and Pop Culture Happy Hour. She went to Juilliard to study viola, ended up a cashier at the Strand, and finally got a degree from Johns Hopkins' Writing Seminars which qualified her solely for work in public radio. She lives and reads in Washington, DC.
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Nearly a week into a new and widening war in the Middle East, some of the U.S.'s closest allies in the region and beyond are trying to contain it.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, international spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces, about the ongoing war with Iran.
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Five years ago, a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol with the goal of stopping the certification of the presidential election. NPR's Tom Dreisbach wanted to preserve a record of the moments before, during, and after the attacks for future generations.
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Since the first sound film came out, Hollywood musicals have provided some of the most iconic movie moments. Three NPR movie fans discuss the merits and drawbacks of the genre.
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NPR's Jan. 6 coverage includes a database of all the charges filed against more than 1500 defendants. It's now one of the only places that information is publicly accessible.
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Elena Burnett and Barrie Hardymon on why Ebenezer Scrooge keeps returning to the screen, and what makes a great Christmas Carol adaptation endure.
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NPR's Linda Holmes and Barrie Hardymon talk about why whodunits feel so cozy, what makes a great mystery work, and why the genre is having a moment again on screen.
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NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Marc Rivers discuss why some movie lines become iconic and whether today's films are still creating quotes that last.
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NPR editor Barrie Hardymon and producer Marc Rivers talk about the joy of loving movies everyone else loves to hate.
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A lively review of cases when people both in front of and behind the camera took on a project that deviated from their past work, and whether it paid off or not.