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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.
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Celebrating 100 years (give or take) of jazz organist Jimmy Smith
Some books give Smith's birthdate as Dec. 8, 1925, but more recent sources cite 1928 as his birth year. Regardless, the late musician always delivered the goods, even as the beats behind him changed.
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Remembering soul guitarist and music producer Steve Cropper
As a member of Stax Records' Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Cropper helped create some of the most important Southern soul music of the '60s. He died Dec. 3. Originally broadcast in 1990.
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Remembering playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard
Stoppard, who died Nov. 29, wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Thing, and the screenplays for Empire of the Sun and Shakespeare in Love. Originally broadcast in 1991.
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George Clooney's kids don't care about his success (and that's a good thing)
In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays an emotionally stunted movie star struggling with work and family life. He can relate: "We're all balancing it. We're never getting it perfect."
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Did the Trump administration commit a war crime in its attack on a Venezuelan boat?
Washington Post reporter Alex Horton talks about the Sept. 2 U.S. military strike on a boat with alleged "narco terrorists," in which a second strike was ordered to kill two survivors in the water.
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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting.
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A dying woman chooses friends over her husband in 'Some Bright Nowhere'
A woman with a terminal diagnosis asks her husband to leave the house in Ann Packer's new novel. Some Bright Nowhere is an absorbing book about end-of-life care and what the living owe the dying.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Nutritionist Marion Nestle; Science writer Mary Roach
Marion Nestle says we should eat "real food, processed as little as possible." Justin Chang reviews Hamnet. Mary Roach reports on the latest in transplant science in her new book, Replaceable You.
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Marking 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry with Earl Scruggs and Loretta Lynn
We listen back to archival interviews with two Opry members: bluegrass musician Scruggs, who perfected three-finger banjo picking, and country star Lynn. Originally broadcast in 2012 and 2010.
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This new movie about Russia's independent journalists is harrowing, but not hopeless
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow follows Russian journalists who report on the country's abuses. Reviewer Justin Chang calls it one of the most engrossing films he's seen all year.
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In 1981, Stephen Sondheim's 'Merrily' was a flop -- now it's a hit
A filmed version of the live production of Merrily We Roll Along will open in theaters on Dec. 5. We listen back to a 2024 interview with revival director Maria Friedman and actor Jonathan Groff.
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'Death by Lightning' star Michael Shannon sees parallels between the 1880s and today
Shannon brings James Garfield's brief presidency to the screen in a new Netflix series. And in the film Nuremberg, Shannon plays a prosecutor trying Nazi leaders for war crimes.
