- Jim Axelrod on important people who wait in the wings; singer Barry Manilow; efforts to free the hostages in the Israel-Hamas war; the story of activist Bayard Rustin; the deaths of actors Matthew Perry (1969-2023), Richard Moll (1943-2023), and Richard Roundtree (1942-2023); Mexico's Day of the Dead; the life of bats; the lives of people born inter-sex;—anonymous
- Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, Jim Axelrod talks with a sideman musician, backup ballplayer and Broadway understudy about their roles performing just outside of stardom. Plus: Martha Teichner interviews former President Barack Obama about a new film that spotlights Bayard Rustin, a marginalized figure in the 1960s civil rights movement; David Pogue profiles singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, who has composed a Broadway musical, "Harmony"; Erin Moriarty talks with an intersex activist; Seth Doane meets volunteers supporting the families of those taken hostage by Hamas; Lee Cowan looks at how Americans are reacting to yet another mass shooting, this time in Lewiston, Maine; and Conor Knighton finds out how a Texas millionaire, concerned about threats to the natural habitat of bats, constructed a manmade bat cave on his ranch.
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