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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs.
Episodes
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Melinda French Gates on what billionaires with 'absurd' wealth owe back to society
In a new memoir, French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, directing funds and attention to women's health initiatives.
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Richard Kind plays to the largest audience of his life in 'Everybody's Live'
Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing. You must understand — it's anarchy," he says of the show.
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With 'Luther,' Kendrick Lamar stakes his claim as a great hip-hop ballad singer
Lamar's duet with SZA samples Luther Vandross' 1982 hit "If This World Were Mine." The song was written by Marvin Gaye, who himself recorded it in 1967 as a duet with Tammi Terrell.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Musician Jason Isbell; 'Doctor Who' actor David Tennant
Isbell confronts the pain of divorce, and the possibility of new love. David Bianculli reviews Dying for Sex. Tennant played Doctor Who, and has been the lead in many Shakespearean plays.
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'Warfare' embeds the audience in the chaos of modern combat
Inspired by the true story of a squad of Navy SEALs who came under fire in Iraq in 2006, Warfare offers a moment-by-moment view that manages to say something new about the combat experience.
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'Hacks' stars Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder and Paul W. Downs reflect on their Max hit
As Hacks returns for its fourth season, we listen back to archival interviews with stars Smart and Einbinder, and with series co-star and co-creator Downs. Originally broadcast in 2021 and 2024.
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Jon Hamm puts a twist on his Don Draper swagger in 'Your Friends & Neighbors'
Wealth comes lined with rage and melancholy in a new Apple TV+ series about a hedge-fund hotshot who loses his job and begins to steal from his suburban friends.
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'No More Tears' author discusses Johnson & Johnson's questionable business practices
J&J recently lost a bid to settle lawsuits that claimed its talc powder products, including baby powder, caused cancer. Author Gardiner Harris says the company's defense "is beginning to crumble."
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'The Economist' editor unpacks the 'biggest trade policy shock' of Trump's tariffs
President Trump's sweeping tariff policy has upended the global economy. Zanny Minton Beddoes, the editor-in-chief of The Economist, likens it to The Art of the Deal — on steroids.
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.
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Biden's closest advisers were in 'denial' about his decline, 'Uncharted' author says
Author Chris Whipple says Biden's family and closest advisers operated in a "fog of delusion" regarding his ability to serve another term: "There's no doubt that they were protecting the president."
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Michelle Williams is brilliantly comic -- and tragic -- in Hulu's 'Dying for Sex'
A long-married woman with terminal cancer leaves her husband and embarks on a quest for sexual satisfaction in a miniseries that's so real and so raw it's likely to make you both laugh and cry.