The Big Picture

The story of the government cracking down on smokestack emissions at a city factory...even though the residents LIKE the emissions.

Host Ira Glass tells the story of writer turned activist Bill McKibben.

Producer Ben Calhoun tells the story of a former Congressional Representative from South Carolina, Bob Inglis.

Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years.

Ira Glass talks to journalist Jochen Bittner about a political lie from 1920s Germany and the lessons it holds for 2020s America.

Ira talks with Connie Rex about the deer she and her sisters kidnapped and ended up putting into their school’s Christmas pageant in Woodruff, Utah, in a starring role.