Dave Grohl and Aimee Mann Give Thanks

An illustration of Dave Grohl and Aimee Mann.
Illustration by Golden Cosmos; Source photographs (left to right) by Nicolas Messyasz / Hans Lucas / Re​dux; Jack Vartoogian / Getty

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In this week’s episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour, we hear two conversations from the most recent New Yorker Festival. Dave Grohl, whose new memoir is “The Storyteller,” shares stories from his life before and after Nirvana, and explains how he formed his own band, the Foo Fighters. Then Aimee Mann talks with Atul Gawande about singing, songwriting, and human needs amid the pandemic. She also performs a song from her latest album, “Queens of the Summer Hotel.”

Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music

In conversation with the staff writer Kelefa Sanneh, the Foo Fighters front man, whose new memoir is “The Storyteller,” shares stories from his life before and after Nirvana.


Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande

The singer-songwriter discusses and performs songs from her new album, which was inspired in part by the best-selling memoir “Girl, Interrupted.”


The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.