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Fresh Air

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Language: en Society & Culture TV & Film Arts
Last Checked: 2025-10-10 03:25:26
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Remembering Longtime NPR Host Bob Edwards

Wed, 14 Feb

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We remember Peabody award-winning broadcast journalist Bob Edwards, who died on Saturday at the age ...

Mark Ruffalo

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:55:17 +0000

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Ruffalo plays a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. The role was a bi...

Molly Ringwald

Mon, 12 Feb

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Molly Ringwald became a film icon in the '80s after starring in a trio of films: Sixteen Candles, Th...

Best Of: The Race Card Project / The Early AIDS Crisis

Sat, 10 Feb

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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she describes as "an archive o...

Remembering MC5 Guitarist Wayne Kramer / Carl Weathers

Fri, 09 Feb

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We remember Wayne Kramer, the guitarist of the late '60s proto-punk band MC5. The revolutionary band...

The Surprisingly Lax Regulation Of Our Railroads

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:02:28 +0000

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Award-winning ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders has spent the last two years investigating America'...

The Life and Legacy Of Medgar & Myrlie Evers

Wed, 07 Feb

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The civil rights leader Medgar Evers is maybe more known for his assassination in 1963 than the work...

A Foster Parent On Loving & Letting Go

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:08:05 +0000

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When Mark Daley and his husband, Jason, became foster parents to two brothers, they fell in love wit...

What Americans Really Think About Race

Mon, 05 Feb

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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she calls "an archive of the h...

Best Of: Emma Stone / The Birth Of Psychedelic Science

Sat, 03 Feb

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Emma Stone is nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in Poor Things. She spoke with Terry Gros...

'Oppenheimer' Dir. Christopher Nolan / Mark Ronson On The 'Barbie' Soundtrack

Fri, 02 Feb

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Oppenheimer and Barbie have been nominated for 13 and 8 Oscars, respectively. We feature our intervi...

The Forgotten Heroes Of The AIDS Crisis

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:15:49 +0000

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Kai Wright's WNYC podcast, Blindspot, revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in...

Emma Stone

Wed, 31 Jan

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Stone has two Oscar nominations for Poor Things: One for best actress and one for best picture, as a...

Unpacking The Immigration Crisis

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:42:10 +0000

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Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly from Central America, arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border every...

Inside A Jim Crow-Era Asylum

Mon, 29 Jan

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NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's fi...

Best Of: Tracee Ellis Ross / Racism In Medicine

Sat, 27 Jan

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Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the new movie American Fiction, which is nominated for five Oscars, in...

Remembering Composer Peter Shickeley / Shangri-Las Lead Mary Weiss

Fri, 26 Jan

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We remember composer and classical music satirist Peter Schickele, whose alter ego was "P.D.Q. Bach....

How The War Between Israel And Hamas Is Widening

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:34:17 +0000

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New York Times correspondent David Sanger says that Iran and its proxies are posing new challenges: ...

Tracee Ellis Ross

Wed, 24 Jan

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Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the Oscar-nominated movie American Fiction. For eight seasons, she sta...

How War Changed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:51:30 +0000

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Time correspondent Simon Shuster has been interviewing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since...

Reckoning With Racism In Medicine

Mon, 22 Jan

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Dr. Uché Blackstock was one of the first doctors to raise the alarm that COVID-19 was disproportion...

Best Of: 'Origin' Dir. Ava DuVernay / How Algorithms 'Flatten' Culture

Sat, 20 Jan

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Ava DuVernay's new film Origin explores a new way to consider the historical subjugation of Black pe...

A 'Succession' Appreciation

Fri, 19 Jan

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HBO's Succession swept at the Emmys, winning six awards for its fourth and final season. We compiled...

The Home Schooling Surge

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:40:52 +0000

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Home schooling is now America's fastest growing form of education, but Washington Post reporter Pete...

How Algorithms 'Flatten' Culture

Wed, 17 Jan

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Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the algorithms that dictate what we watch, read and listen t...

The Birth Of Psychedelic Science

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:16:47 +0000

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You may have heard about the pioneering research of anthropologist Margaret Mead, but do you know ab...

Ava DuVernay Illuminates America's Caste System with 'Origin'

Mon, 15 Jan

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Award-winning director Ava DuVernay's new film Origin explores a new way to consider the historical ...

Best Of: Sterling K. Brown / Paul Giamatti

Sat, 13 Jan

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Actor Sterling K. Brown co-stars in the new film American Fiction. We'll talk about his role in that...

Josh Groban's Sweeney Todd

Fri, 12 Jan

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The Grammy-Award winning baritone first auditioned to play the Demon Barber of Fleet Street back in ...

The Movement To Dismantle Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:15:41 +0000

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Washington Post reporter Julian Mark talks about the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, ...

Paul Giamatti On 'The Holdovers'

Wed, 10 Jan

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Giamatti says his latest movie, filmed at various prep schools in Massachusetts and directed by Alex...

The Long Recovery Back From Traumatic Brain Injury

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:03:59 +0000

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Annie Liontas experienced three brain injuries in the span of one year, which led to dizziness, memo...

Sterling K. Brown

Mon, 08 Jan

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Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...

Best Of: Making 'Maestro' / A Restaurateur's Journey

Sat, 06 Jan

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Bradley Cooper talks about writing, directing, and starring in the new film Maestro, in which he por...

Remembering The Smothers Brothers, Who Changed TV

Fri, 05 Jan

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We remember Tom Smothers, of the comic folk duo the Smothers Brothers, who died last week at the age...

The Ozempic Revolution

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:23:48 +0000

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Bloomberg News reporter Emma Court explains how these so-called "miracle" weight loss drugs work, an...

Restaurateur Rose Previte's Lessons Learned From Around The World

Wed, 03 Jan

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In her new cookbook, Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond, Rose Previte writes about what it's l...

Bradley Cooper & Yannick Nézet-Séguin On 'Maestro'

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:52:47 +0000

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In his new biopic Maestro, Bradley Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Leonard Bernst...

Barbra Streisand

Mon, 01 Jan

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We start the new year with Barbra Streisand, and listen back to the interview we recorded in Novembe...

Taraji P. Henson / Pianist Brad Mehldau

Sat, 30 Dec

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Taraji P. Henson stars as jazz singer Shug Avery in the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple. ...

Jazz With The EarRegulars

Fri, 29 Dec

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Our dark week continues with a performance by and conversation with two of the best traditional jazz...

Roots Co-Founder, Black Thought (Tariq Trotter)

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:14:07 +0000

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We continue our series of some of our favorite interviews of the year with co-founder and lead MC of...

Brooke Shields

Wed, 27 Dec

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When Shields was 11 months old, she was in soap commercials and print ads. At the age of 12, she sta...

Allison Russell's Road To Self-Love

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:13:19 +0000

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Canadian musician Allison Russell talks and sings about the abuse she endured from her racist adopti...

Merry Questlove Christmas

Mon, 25 Dec

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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has put together a playlist of some of his favorite Christmas recordings...

Best Of: David Byrne's Xmas Playlist / Nicolas Cage

Sat, 23 Dec

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It's a David Byrne Christmas. The cofounder and frontman of Talking Heads has put together a playlis...

Timothy Olyphant On 'Justified'

Fri, 22 Dec

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From now until the end of 2023, we're listening back to some stand-out interviews from this year. Ti...

Nicolas Cage

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:34:17 +0000

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Cage has been acting for almost 45 years, and has appeared in more than 100 films. Dream Scenario is...

A David Byrne Christmas Special

Wed, 20 Dec

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The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — inc...

Remembering Actor Andre Braugher

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:43:52 +0000

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Braugher died of lung cancer last week at age 61. He's best known for his portrayals of police in tw...

Taraji P. Henson On 'The Color Purple'

Mon, 18 Dec

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This Christmas, the film adaptation of the musical The Color Purple hits the big screen. For award-w...

David Sedaris Can't Wait To Watch You Panic Shop This Week

Sun, 17 Dec

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Humorist and author David Sedaris is a public radio regular – his 'Santaland Diaries' first aired ...

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