We asked listeners for their favorite podcast of the past year. We got this message from avid podcast-listener (and NPR host) Lulu Miller, who couldn't narrow her list of favorites to less than 20, and who sang them into our Pod Line.

Lulu Miller's Favorite 20 Podcasts of 2016 (In Song)

Tom Hanks guest-hosted NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me the weekend of January 14. He also made a little promo for The Big Listen. What a guy! http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/509378822  (Photo by Andrew Gill/NPR)

Tom Hanks Has Big Love For The Big Listen

Kojo Nnamdi & Derek Hyra Discuss Gentrification In D.C. Part of WAMU Books, a series of author conversations hosted by WAMU contributors.

Kojo Nnamdi & Derek Hyra Discuss Gentrification In D.C.

Best-selling author J. Courtney Sullivan is interviewed by WAMU's Tayla Burney, May 2017, at Politics and Prose. They discuss Sullivan's latest novel, "Saints for All Occasions" and its themes of family, faith and secrets.

J. Courtney Sullivan Talks "Saints for All Occasions" With Tayla Burney

A central character in J. Courtney Sullivan's novel "Saints for All Occasions" is a cloistered nun. She talked with WAMU's Tayla Burney at Politics and Prose about writing devout characters and whether nuns are having a 'moment' in pop culture.

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