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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Bend It Like Beckham, Review, and the Criterion Channel's "Starring Michelle Yeoh" playlist.
Michelle Yeoh, winner of the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em> at the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, Calif. Mallory Yu recommends The Criterion Channel's <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/starring-michelle-yeoh">"Starring Michelle Yeoh Collection."</a>

This week, we remembered Harry Belafonte, looked at Apple Music's new attempt to bring Bach the classics, and got a preview of the upcoming Zelda game.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Broker episode of Hell Gate podcast

As a New Yorker, I feel like there are a lot of things that I'm just uninformed about, and one of those things is brokers and broker fees. I recently listened to , and they basically interviewed a broker. You learn about the history of broker fees,

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