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Fuqua discusses his remake of The Magnificent Seven. Critic John Powers reviews the ABC series, Designated Survivor. Opera singer Green recounts his journey to becoming an opera singer.

Rae talks about her HBO series Insecure.Critic John Powers praises the "quiet restraint and unhurried rhythm" of Certain Women.Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy discuss their futuristic series Westworld.

Young people have always used language in new ways, and it has always driven older people crazy. But the linguist John McWhorter says all the LOLs are part of an inevitable evolution of language.

Talks between U.S. and Afghan officials have yielded a partial security agreement between the two countries. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai held discussions Friday and Saturday on a deal to keep the U.S. military in the country beyond the 2014 pullout date for most U.S. and NATO troops.

A huge, expensive new development may temporarily displace the subterranean tavern, which has remained the same since 1964. John Belushi immortalized the place in a Saturday Night Live skit.

Secretary of State John Kerry said there is no question Russia is behind an effort to destabilize eastern Ukraine.

Newcomers John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver will join old favorites Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. The movie is due to be released Dec. 18, 2015.

Mark Kessler, who served as police chief in Gilberton, Pa., posted profanity-laced videos in July that denounced liberals, the United Nations and Secretary of State John Kerry.

Pro-democracy street art inspired by sources ranging from Les Miserables to John Lennon fill an open-air museum of sorts that has cropped up in Hong Kong.

For this week's Throw Back Thursday we remember a heartbreakingly beautiful Tiny Desk performance by the now defunct folk duo The Civil Wars, from 2011.

He says barriers are working, as scientists begin to experiment with genetic engineering and the creation of Asian carp-specific toxins, which would target the species' digestive system and reproductive system.

ANNE and her son PATRICK MAGUIRE were part of the Maguire Seven, the family who was wrongfully arrested in 1974 on suspicion of manufacturing bombs for the Irish Republican Army. The family was tortured, tried, convicted, and jailed, and was not reunited for eleven years. ANNE spent eight years in prison, in what Sir John May called the "worst miscarriage of justice I have ever seen." PATRICK spent four years in prison after being convicted at the age of 13. ANNE MAGUIRE has written a book about their experience, "Miscarriage of Justice: An Irish Family's Story of Wrongful Conviction as IRA Terrorists" (Roberts Rinehart Publishers).

NPR's Melissa Block talks with zydeco musician and singer Geno Delafose about learning how to play zydeco -- a rollicking Louisiana musical tradition -- from his legendary father. Hear cuts from Delafose's latest CD and a live track heard only on npr.org.

John Sebastian is probably best known for founding The Lovin' Spoonful. And who better to talk about summertime music than the voice behind "Summer In The City"? He dishes on his favorite tune for the season: The Beach Boys' "I Get Around."

The study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, focuses on harassment cases in the early months of the pandemic.

John Carney's unpretentious musical romance is completely winning — with appealing characters, an unforced sense of intimacy and a light-fingered way of mixing music and story.

Simon & Garfunkel, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Elton John, KISS, Aerosmith, Cher -- some of the biggest names in music are raking in the money on tour. Music critic Christian Bordal reports on why musicians are earning more money, even though fewer people are coming to see them.

Journalist Kai Strittmatter discusses China's use of cyber surveillance. Justin Chang reviews The Little Things. John Colapinto reflects on the physicality, frailty and feats of the human voice.

A Patent Lie, the new novel by Paul Goldstein, trumps John Grisham's work in every way — character, setting, plot and prose — and gives readers interested in the drama of a high-value legal case a great reward for their attention.

Actress MIA FARROW. She has a new memoir, "What Falls Away," (Doubleday). FARROW is the daughter of actress Maureen O'Sullivan and writer John Farrow. As a young actress she starred in "Peyton Place" and "Rosemary's Baby." She was married to Frank Sinatra and then Andre Previn, and has 14 children, many of them adopted. Her 12-year relationship with Woody Allen ended with his affair with FARROW's adopted daughter Soon-Yi. FARROW and Allen had two children, and made twelve films together before their highly dramatic and public breakup. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00 Actress MIA FARROW continued.