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We meet the director of Volunteers in Medicine and chat about their mission to provide care to those ineligible for insurance, hang out at a practice for one of the few high school girls ice hockey teams in western Mass with the Longmeadow Lancers, and Mr. Universe gets into another theory about the origins of black holes.

We chat with Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theater and Larry Spotted-Crow Mann of Oketeau Cultural Center about Little Amal's visit to Ashfield, and celebrate 50 years of the Mattoon St. Arts Festival with organizers Jason Alves, Bob McCarroll, and Freya Bromwich.

We visit Maple Corner Farm for their pick-your-own blueberry season, chat with conductor Keith Lockhart as he celebrates 30 years with the Boston Pops and play pickleball to benefit the Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Padma Lakshmi reflects on the lessons her grandmother taught her through cooking.

A competitor in Rio grew up poor in the islands, leaving home to live on the streets when he was 8. There's not even a running track there. Now he's competing in the 400-meter hurdles.

"I'm showing that trans women can be whatever they want to be: a teacher, a mother, a doctor, a politician and even Miss Universe," Miss Spain, Angela Ponce, said recently.

President-elect Biden plans to end the Trump administration's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries on Day 1. But immigrant advocates say the lasting effects of the policy will be harder to undo.

Bowie was still an aspiring pop star, with but one successful single under his belt, at the time of Hunky Dory's release. It wouldn't last.

The nation's younger voters may decide whether the world's third-largest democracy maintains economic growth and political reform or slides backward to the authoritarian politics of a generation ago.