Greta Johnsen

Host

Greta hosts and produces WBEZ’s Nerdette podcast and is a fill-in anchor on WBEZ. Prior to joining WBEZ in 2014. Greta hosted Morning Edition at WCQS in Asheville, North Carolina and at KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska. Greta has a BA in English from Saint Olaf College and a MS in Journalism from Northwestern University. She enjoys waking up early, reading, knitting, and walking her corgi.

Stories by Greta Johnsen

- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
Your Weekend Starts Here: Cache Your Cookies, Categorize Your Fun, Put Down Your Phone

Nerdette podcast gets you ready for the weekend with movies, books and everyone’s favorite thing: a new way to categorize life experiences.
Oct. 23 read more
- Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
- Culture & The Arts
Nerdette Recaps ‘The Matrix’ With Peter Sagal

The crew is back again! And this time we’re revisiting films from 1999, starting with the Wachowskis’ seminal film, ‘The Matrix.’
Oct. 21 read more
- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
‘Can’t Even’ Explores Why Burnout Is For Millennials (And Millennials At Heart)

Author Anne Helen Petersen explains why the experience of being a millennial is defined by precariousness.
Oct. 16 read more
Coming Soon: Nerdette To Recap Movies Like It’s 1999 … With Peter Sagal

Turns out 1999 was a landmark year for movies. (‘Office Space,’ ‘Election,’ ‘The Matrix’!) So we’re coming back to dissect the year in film.
Oct. 14
- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
Surprise! You’re A Genius

You didn’t know? Nerdette podcast talks with two new MacArthur “geniuses” about their important work and what it’s like to get that call.
Oct. 13 read more
- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
Your Weekend Starts Here: Movies, TikTok And Fat Bears! (Oh My!)

Nerdette assembled a bunch of fun people to take a look back at a wild week — but in a merry, pop culture way, not a CAPS LOCK newsy way.
Oct. 9 read more
- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
It’s Autumn, So We Asked For Cold-Weather Pandemic Advice From An Infectious Disease Expert

Outdoor hangs are getting frosty and the holidays are just around the corner. So we asked Dr. Emily Landon how we should navigate the fall.
Oct. 2 read more
- Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
- Culture & The Arts
Nerdette Recaps ‘Hook’ With Peter Sagal

Bonus recap! And Peter Sagal either really hates the 1991 film ‘Hook’ or he’s suffering from some serious Peter Pan envy … or maybe both!
Sept. 30 read more
- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
Comics, Conspiracies And Pandemics Star In Gillian Flynn’s ‘Utopia’

Flynn also wrote the 2012 mega-hit ‘Gone Girl.’ She admits her new TV series, out now on Amazon Prime, may hit too close to home for some.
Sept. 29 read more
- Nerdette
- Culture & The Arts
Listen: A Discussion On ‘The Shadow King,’ Recently Shortlisted For The 2020 Booker Prize

We break down the Booker shortlisted novel ‘The Shadow King’ with Lydia Levy, founder of the African literature review website Omusana.
Sept. 25 read more