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HAIM: One family's musical collaboration

Singer Alana Haim's first performance as an actress, playing a young woman who is a teenager's object of affection in "Licorice Pizza," has been acclaimed as one of the most exciting screen debuts in recent memory. Correspondent Anthony Mason talks with Alana Haim, and with her sisters, Danielle and Este (who together form the Grammy-nominated band HAIM), about playing together as family, and how their history with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (director of several Haim music videos) led to this critically-acclaimed role.

Molly Lewis, the whistler

The name Molly Lewis is now on a lot of people's lips, thanks to her unusual musical gift: whistling. She talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about her new record, "The Forgotten Edge."

A town in Tuscany without cell phones

The village of Galliano di Mugello, in Tuscany, is a little more tranquil than many Italian towns, because it has no mobile service. But it's not alone, as Italy ranks near the bottom of the European Commission's index of digital competitiveness. Correspondent Seth Doane pays a call to a medieval town whose residents face challenges fostered by the "digital divide."

Seneca Village: The historic settlement that disappeared

In the early 19th century Seneca Village, in the middle of Manhattan, was home to the largest number of free Black property owners in New York City before the Civil War. Irish and German immigrants moved in, too. But in 1853, when Central Park was in the planning stages, the city used eminent domain to take control of the land, displacing the settlement's residents. Correspondent Faith Salie looks at efforts to unearth the unique history of Seneca Village, and to find descendants of those evicted.

It's time for work – go to bed!

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, correspondent Luke Burbank has become part of a silent but cozy majority: those who prefer working horizontally.

Almanac: The day Elizabeth became queen

On February 6, 1952, 70 years ago today, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, ascended to the British throne by the death of her father, King George VI. Jane Pauley reports.

Honoring America's WWII "Ghost Army"

This week President Joe Biden signed a bill awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to some unsung heroes of World War II: the so-called "Ghost Army" – top-secret military units that deployed inflatable tanks and artillery, decoy soldiers, and fake communications to fool enemy forces. Jane Pauley reports.

Passage: In memoriam

"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including actor Howard Hesseman, star of the sitcoms "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "Head of the Class."

Extended Nature Video: Iguanas

We leave you this Sunday at Curacao's Christoffel National Park, where it's the day of the iguanas. Videographer: Mauricio Handler

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Hosted by Jane Pauley.

The Book Report: Recommendations from Washington Post critic Ron Charles (February 6)

Looking for something special to read this winter? Our book reviewer offers a few new titles you should check out, from fiction to a memoir by an Emmy-winning actor with nothing to hide.

Book excerpt: "Olga Dies Dreaming" by Xochitl Gonzalez

In this New York Times bestselling novel from the Atlantic writer and native Brooklynite, a wildly successful wedding planner can't seem to find love herself.

Book excerpt: "Putting the Rabbit In the Hat" by Brian Cox

In his memoir the Emmy Award-winning "Succession" star writes of notable collaborations from his nearly-six-decade stage, film and television career, including with a certain action movie star.

Book excerpt: "I Will Die In a Foreign Land" by Kalani Pickhart

This debut novel is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Ukraine in 2014 at a time of revolution, and of lives intersecting as the country's political situation deteriorates.

Book excerpt: "To Paradise" by Hanya Yanagihara

The author of 2015's "A Little Life" returns with a New York Times bestseller – a trilogy of novellas, set in one New York City townhouse across three different centuries, in which characters search for an idea of utopia.