The First Person Podcast

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If you were asked to explain your life, what would you say? That's the start of the provocative idea behind this cast. What is it that has taken you to a certain point in your life where you kind of understand the world in a certain way? And i always found in my interviews the most interesting part was when i would say, why do you think that? Unless you've written a book or an essay, you might really not know the answer to that question.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is a former war correspondent and host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. Her new podcast, for the New York Times, is First Person.

“I would always say that if you go cover a story and you already know what people are going to say, and you already have it in your head what the outcome is, and there's no surprise there, then that's a story that you shouldn't be working on. You have to allow the opportunity for there to be a journey. And for there to be something at the end of it, that is gonna be like, Wow. I really never thought that. I didn't think that I was coming here to report on that, but I guess that's what I'm here to report on.”

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