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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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'Coming to New York' stories are alive and well in these two new books
Kay Sohini's graphic memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, tells a story of migration and redefinition. Gay Talese gathers many of his great pieces about the city in A Town Without Time.
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A pro dominatrix and novelist says empathy, curiosity and bravery are key to both jobs
After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. The job gave her time to write — and plenty of material to draw from. Her new novel is Soft Core.
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Remembering British singer Marianne Faithfull
Faithfull, who died Jan. 30, was discovered at a Rolling Stones party in 1964 and later became Mick Jagger's girlfriend. She went on to become an acclaimed singer. Originally broadcast in '94 and '05.
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A family endures a dictatorship in the Oscar-nominated 'I'm Still Here'
A Brazilian family is rocked when the father disappears following a military coup. I'm Still Here tells the heroic true story of a wife and mother who steers her family through the rapids of tyranny.
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Fresh Air Weekend: 'Wicked' star Ariana Grande; Dominatrix and novelist Brittany Newell
Ariana Grande says being cast in Wicked was a gift. Maureen Corrigan reviews two books that center New York City. Soft Core novelist Brittany Newell found inspiration while working as a dominatrix.
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Questlove confronts the 'burden of Black genius' in a new Sly Stone documentary
In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage."
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'The truth hurts': Sebastian Stan reflects on playing Trump in 'The Apprentice'
Stan's up for an Oscar for his portrayal of the president early in his career, when Roy Cohn was his lawyer and mentor. Stan says Cohn schooled Trump in "denying reality and reshaping the truth."
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How did Elon Musk become so powerful in the Trump administration?
New York Times journalist Eric Lipton outlines how Musk's companies are benefiting as he cuts federal jobs and agencies, and reporter Teddy Schleifer explains how Musk's political views turned right.
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'Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross says the South 'makes you question what time is'
Ross' Oscar-nominated film centers on two young Black men attempting to survive a brutal Florida reformatory school in the 1960s. He says he's sees the rural South as a "meaning-making space."
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'Fresh Air' celebrates 50 years of 'SNL' with interviews from the archives
Dan Aykroyd shares the inspiration for the Blues Brothers. Writer Alan Zweibel remembers working with Gilda Radner. Al Franken recalls a sketch that got pulled. Jon Lovitz talks about master thespian.
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This long-buried 1999 film offers a new chance to see James Earl Jones
There are many reasons to seek out Charles Burnett's long-buried 1999 film, but perhaps primary among them: The rare chance to see Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder and James Earl Jones share the screen.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Questlove on 'SLY LIVES!'; 'The Apprentice' star Sebastian Stan
In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. Stan's up for an Oscar for his portrayal of President Trump early in his career.
