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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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'Pluribus' star Rhea Seehorn says no thanks to a world dictated by group think
In the Apple TV series, Seehorn stars as a woman named Carol who suddenly finds herself surrounded by people who are inexplicably happy. The only problem: Carol's not interested in joining them.
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A roundup of holiday music includes offerings from Brad Paisley and others
Whether you're anxiously awaiting Christmas or already wishing the holidays would be over, here's a selection of music that lets you know you're not alone.
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'Placeless' author traces the roots and realities of mass homelessness in America
Patrick Markee spent two decades walking through New York City's tunnels, armories and intake centers. His book asks: what if homelessness isn't a personal failing, but the result of policy choices?
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Maureen Corrigan's 10 favorite books of 2025 — with plenty for nonfiction lovers
Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote was her favorite.
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Fresh Air Weekend: George Clooney; 'Wicked' costume design Paul Tazewell
In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays a movie star struggling with work and family life. Ken Tucker recommends new holiday music. Tazewell created more than 1,000 looks for Wicked: For Good.
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Let 'The Secret Agent' fill you in on what it's like to live under a dictatorship
A research scientist is on the run from hitmen in this thrilling film. Set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent captures the daily realities and surreal absurdities of life in an authoritarian state.
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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.
