Dinner Party Download

This week: Filmmaker Michael Apted (7 Up) talks about renewing his landmark documentary series ... Writer Manuel Gonzales tells us how NOT to bury a body ... Etiquette all-stars Lizzie and Dan Post on the protocol of the communal newspaper bin ... Sundance Fest director John Cooper shares some behind-the-screens stories ... Britain's latest food fad is (wait for it) American food?! ... Josh Bearman, whose article inspired the film Argo, tells three other film-worthy tales ... Plus, Drew's brews, Cold War Kids, and the birth of the roller coaster.

This week: Director David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter) steals the show ... The Velvet Underground's John Cale experiments with a list ... Writer George Saunders weighs man purses and messenger bags ... Comedian Nick Kroll (Kroll Show) tries to mix Oktoberfest and Yom Kippur -- then has to flee Germany ... A new French dessert to swoon over ... Plus, brilliant hatchet jobs, a viola-nt joke, and a trippy track from Foxygen.

This week, a look back at our best moments of 2012: Jon Hamm dives into dark matter ... Ed Asner answers your etiquette questions (and his cellphone) ... We toast a historic Niagara fall ... Folk rock icon Rodriguez rises from the dead ... Alison Pill (The Newsroom) lists her favorite behind-the-scenes stories ... Ramblin' man Todd Snider recalls his brush with Nascar celebrity ... And country singer Iris DeMent takes us home with a dinner party soundtrack ... Plus pretzel dumplings, lucky underwear, and an OCD joke from James Franco.

This week: An encore rebroadcast of one of our listeners' favorite episodes of the year. Punk icon Patti Smith dreams of little black dresses ... Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston builds green houses, not meth labs ... Zosia Mamet (Girls, Mad Men) picks other against-type actors ... We inhale the tale of the original smoke-filled room ... and novelist Nathaniel Rich finds a rhino with all the answers. Plus: drinkable shrubs, a new track from Odd Future's Frank Ocean, and the fastest road in the USA.

This Week: Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx riffs on playing Django -- and ping pong ... JEOPARDY! champion Ken Jennings answers our etiquette questions (minus the buzzer) ... Thrift Shop rap stars Macklemore and Ryan Lewis spin a soundtrack that'll get your party hopping ... Lynne Rossetto Kasper of The Splendid Table revisits a cringe-worthy Christmas past ... The Hobbit's effects mastermind shares a few digital characters who broke ground for Gollum ... And Rico samples the next foreign food craze: Brazilian ... Plus, how to think like Sherlock Holmes, monkeys with no rhythm, and zen dogs.