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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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'South Park' creators renovate a beloved restaurant, and find nostalgia is pricey
A new film follows Trey Parker and Matt Stone as they renovate a dilapidated, inauthentic, 1970s Mexican restaurant. The labor of love becomes a money-pit as they chase the landmark's former glory.
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Demi Moore reflects on aging, acceptance and finding happiness within
In The Substance, Moore plays an aging actress who uses a black-market drug to create a younger version of herself. She says the film examines the pressures middle-aged women face to remain youthful.
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'Lucky Loser' dispels the myth of Trump as a self-made billionaire
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner spent years examining Trump's finances and businesses. They trace how he squandered his father's fortune in a new book.
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Connie Chung says booze and bawdy jokes helped her break into journalism's boys club
In a new memoir, Chung reflects on the decades she spent covering the news, her marriage to Maury Povich and the prominent figures who acted inappropriately with her — including President Carter.
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Fresh Air for Sept. 18, 2024: Connie Chung
Hear the Fresh Air program for Sep 18, 2024
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'Entitlement' disappoints — 'Leave the World Behind' was a tough act to follow
Rumaan Alam’s previous novel was an inspired swirl of suspense, social commentary and apocalyptic disaster. His latest is about a young Black woman working for a uber-rich white socialite.
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'Times' reporter Haberman weighs in on Trump, the media and the turbulent election
Maggie Haberman, who's spent years covering Trump, discusses his behavior on the campaign trail, including his insistence on responding to every slight — even when it undermines his appeal to voters.
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'The Penguin' is a darkly engrossing entry into the Batman cannon
With no costumes, no superpowers and no Batman, HBO's The Penguin is less like a comic book series than a crime drama — closer to The Sopranos than to the Batman movie from which it came.
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'Bad Monkey' novelist Carl Hiaasen says Key West has 'laws all its own'
Hiaasen has spent his life skewering and defending his native Florida. His novel, Bad Monkey, has been adapted into an Apple TV+ mystery series starring Vince Vaughn. Originally broadcast in 2013.
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Remembering Dan Morgenstern, a revered jazz historian, archivist and critic
Morgenstern, who died Sept. 7, directed the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies for 35 years, building a one-of-a-kind collection of recordings, memorabilia and writings. Originally broadcast in 2004.
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A light-hearted murder mystery weekend turns deadly in Kate Atkinson's cozy thriller
Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a fully satisfying, all-the-pieces-click-together ending.
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'I didn't want it to end.' Why director Todd Phillips came back with another 'Joker'
After the 2019 Joker wrapped, Phillips knew he wanted to do more with Batman's archnemesis. Joker: Folie à Deux is a musical sequel, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
