'My Name is Pauli Murray,' Paula Poundstone, Trisha Yearwood on her New Cookbook, Esperanza Spalding's New Album

A new documentary, “My Name is Pauli Murray,” chronicles the life of Pauli Murray, a civil rights lawyer, poet, and priest who challenged racial and gender lines and influenced legal icons like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Thurgood Marshall. But Murray has remained largely unknown. Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West join to discuss Murray’s impact on the American legal system. WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us for our ongoing series, "Kate Has a Plan," to discuss the stories the newsroom is following this week. Public radio listeners know Paula Poundstone as a regular panelist on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. After more than a year of focusing her joke-making energy on her podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and on a weekly Zoom game show, she is back performing in front of live, in-person audiences. Poundstone joins us to talk about her career and preview her Town Hall show on October 7. Grammy-winning country artist and bestselling cookbook author Trisha Yearwood joins us to discuss her latest cookbook, Trisha’s Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends & Family. Esperanza Spalding’s new album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab, is named after the roaming creative workshop into which she invited musicians, neuroscientists, ethnomusicologists, and other specialists. Six of the twelve songs on the resulting LP were recorded during a session of live sets in New York this summer. Spalding joins us for a Listening Party.