Fresh Air

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:29:11 +0000

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Christine Blasey Ford describes what it was like to come forward and testify that Brett Kavanaugh se...

Mon, 18 Mar

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NPR Politics correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in a white evangelical church that taught her to n...

Sat, 16 Mar

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Jenny Slate talks about childbirth and motherhood, the subjects of her new comedy special, Seasoned ...

Fri, 15 Mar

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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has worked in several high-end New York City restaurants — adrenaline-fuel...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:20:52 +0000

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We talk with Peter Pomerantsev, whose new book, How to Win an Information War, is about the man he d...

Wed, 13 Mar

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Schitt's Creek star Eugene Levy visits distant lands and tastes exotic foods as the host of the Appl...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:15:46 +0000

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The comic/actor returns. Now she has a 3-year-old daughter, who she sings to in the voice of her cha...

Mon, 11 Mar

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Comic, actor and filmmaker Julio Torres came to the U.S. from El Salvador in his 20s. His new film, ...

Sat, 09 Mar

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New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos recently interviewed Biden for his new profile about the presiden...

Fri, 08 Mar

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

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:53:26 +0000

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Writer, director and producer Ed Zwick has made dozens of films and TV shows including Legends of th...

Wed, 06 Mar

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In a wide-ranging conversation with The New Yorker, President Biden proclaimed that he is the best o...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:22:54 +0000

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As a war correspondent, Rod Nordland faced death many times over. But in 2019, Nordland confronted a...

Mon, 04 Mar

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The Emmy-winning host of RuPaul's Drag Race describes himself as "an introvert masquerading as an ex...

Sat, 02 Mar

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Denis Villeneuve remembers watching the 1984 movie version of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune...

Fri, 01 Mar

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Paul Giamatti stars in The Holdovers as a pompous and disliked teacher at a boys boarding school in ...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:04:20 +0000

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Why do many Christian nationalists think Trump is chosen by God to lead the country? We talk with Br...

Wed, 28 Feb

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Villeneuve remembers watching the 1984 movie version of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune and t...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:18:22 +0000

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Busy Philipps plays Mrs. George, a "cool mom" seeking the approval of her teen daughter in the new m...

Mon, 26 Feb

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Charan Ranganath recently wrote an op-ed about President Biden's memory gaffes. He says forgetting i...

Sat, 24 Feb

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Mark Ruffalo is nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Poor Things. He pla...

Fri, 23 Feb

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In his Oscar-nominated biopic Maestro, Bradley Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Le...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:37:45 +0000

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As Donald Trump seeks to gain the Republican presidential nomination, he faces 91 felony charges acr...

Wed, 21 Feb

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Lucy Sante has been writing books since the 1980s, exploring everything from photography to urban hi...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:13:03 +0000

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Wright is up for an Oscar for best actor this year for the film American Fiction, where he plays a n...

Mon, 19 Feb

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From relentless campaigning to snubs and speeches, the Academy Awards have often reflected a cultura...

Sat, 17 Feb

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Actress Molly Ringwald came to represent '80s teen angst after starring in Sixteen Candles, The Brea...

Fri, 16 Feb

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

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:30:40 +0000

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How is New York City coping with the 175,000 migrants from the Southern border? New York Times repor...

Wed, 14 Feb

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

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...

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...

Sat, 10 Feb

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

Fri, 09 Feb

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

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fri, 02 Feb

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

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...

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...

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...

Mon, 29 Jan

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

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...

Fri, 26 Jan

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

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: ...

Wed, 24 Jan

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wed, 17 Jan

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

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...

Mon, 15 Jan

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

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...

Fri, 12 Jan

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

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, ...

Wed, 10 Jan

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

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...

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...

Sat, 06 Jan

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

Fri, 29 Dec

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

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...

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...

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...

Mon, 25 Dec

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

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...

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...

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...

Wed, 20 Dec

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

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...

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...

Sun, 17 Dec

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