Brian Lehrer's Podcast About "Parks and Recreation"
Join New York Public Radio's Brian Lehrer for the farewell season of NBC's Parks and Recreation. Each week Brian is joined by NPR's Linda Holmes and special guests who will lend insider context to the bits of governmental bureaucracy and political gamesmanship seen on the show.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2015
Parks & Recap: The Finale
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
This week's episode of NBC's Parks & Recreation was the season and series finale. The writers wrapped up the series with flash forwards that showed mostly happy endings for e…
Parks & Recap: Career Moves
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
In this week's episodes of NBC's Parks & Recreation, Andy says goodbye to his Johnny Karate children's show as he and April prepare to move to Washington, D.C. for April's ne…
Parks & Recap: The Candidate’s Wife
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
In this week's episodes of NBC's Parks & Recreation, Leslie and Ben upend expectations when she skips the traditional “pie-mary” pie-baking contest for candidates’ wives and …
Parks & Recap: Pawnee Palisades
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
In this week's episodes of NBC's Parks & Recreation, Donna gets married and we revisit the land use issues from the Gryzzl/Leslie dispute.
NPR's Linda Holmes joins us for th…
Parks & Recap: Super Rad Algorithm
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In this week's episode of NBC's Parks & Recreation, Leslie Knopes tackles data mining in the year 2017. A company that's relocating their headquarters to Pawnee, Gryzzl, is l…
Parks & Recap: William Henry Harrison!
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In this week's episode of NBC's Parks & Recreation, Leslie Knopes' hopes of preserving public land rests on US President William Henry Harrison, who has the distinction of dy…
Parks & Recap: Land Feuds & City Council Shenanigans
WARNING: SPOILERS! So save this and listen to it only after you’ve seen the first two episodes.
Linda Holmes, host of NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See, joins Brian for a weekly ch…