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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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Leslie Uggams looks back on decades in show business
Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films. She was the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. At 82, she's appearing in The Gilded Age.
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The sound of summer is women who've had it with problematic men
The three-sister band HAIM and pop singer and TikTok star Addison Rae are practicing "emotional passive resistance" this summer — and it sounds great.
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'Fresh Air' goes out to the ballgame
After a memorable All-Star game, today we listen back to some favorite baseball interviews from the Fresh Air archives: conversations with Jamie Moyer, Mike Piazza, Tony La Russa and Brad Ausmus.
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You'll find a gripping new internet thriller in the 'Cloud'
The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.
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How did Condé Nast go from dominance to decline? A new book explains
For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. Writer Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday of these magazines and how they lost their footing.
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'Sorry, Baby' is a story about pain and healing you haven't heard before
Eva Victor wrote, directed and stars in this tender film about a woman trying to make sense of life after sexual assault. Although very much a drama, Sorry, Baby showcases Victor's comic smarts.
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'ProPublica' climate reporter calls Texas floods an 'early warning' of future chaos
Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.
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'Outrageous' period drama showcases a political division that hits close to home
Set in the 1930s, a new six-part BritBox series tells of the infamously non-conformist Mitford sisters, whose involvement in various political causes roiled their aristocratic parents.
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By land and by sea, these new nonfiction books will carry you away
Helen Whybrow's memoir, The Salt Stones, is a closely-observed account of her life as a shepherd. In A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst tells the true story of a couple adrift on a rubber raft.
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Fresh Air Weekend: 'Failed Child Star' Tamara Yajia; Novelist/doula Leila Mottley
Yajia looks back on life in Argentina and Hollywood in Cry for Me, Argentina. David Bianculli reviews an HBO documentary about Ms. magazine. Mottley discusses her new novel, The Girls Who Grew Big.
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This new 'Superman' takes the Man of Steel seriously — but not self-seriously
Director James Gunn brings an irreverent, borderline-slapstick vibe to the latest Superman film, in which our hero grapples with villains, strange creatures and public opinion.
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'I want to write myself into existence,' says 'Colored Television' author
Danzy Senna was born a few years after Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. "Existing as a family was a radical statement at that time," she says. Originally broadcast Sept. 3, 2024.
