"Anna Sale's ability to get everyone from a stranger to a celebrity to open up about life's most deeply personal and controversial questions is astounding. She's shaped how I conduct my interviews and along with her excellent production team, keeps my failth alive in the power of the longform interview format."

- John Asante, JKB Wash & Dry Productions

Death, Sex & Money is the rare interview show that strips away performance and digs into the tender, complicated parts of being alive. Hosted by Anna Sale with a voice like a hand extended in confidence, the podcast invites guests—famous, obscure, and everywhere in between—to speak not about their achievements, but about their mess. Divorce, debt, addiction, grief, jealousy, parenting, lust—nothing is off limits, and nothing is tidied up. Sale isn’t interested in the neat arc of redemption; she’s after the raw material of life as it’s actually lived.

What makes the show work is Sale’s disarming empathy and her skill at asking the questions that hover in silence on other shows. Conversations unfold with grace but land hard, revealing how much we all carry, and how rarely we speak it aloud. The pacing is unhurried, the tone intimate, the stories unforgettable.

Death, Sex & Money isn’t therapy and isn’t confession—it’s something better: a clear-eyed portrait of human need and resilience, told without pretense. It’s public radio’s most emotionally honest offering, a show that finds truth not in triumph, but in the ache of ordinary lives. The result is radio that’s deeply humane—and quietly radical.