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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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Episodes
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Remembering 'The Twilight Zone' creator Rod Serling
It's been 50 years since the Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer died. But watching reruns of The Twilight Zone confirms that the themes Serling tackled remain relevant.
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'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home
Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.
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'What we need right now is tenderness,' former poet laureate Ada Limón says
Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Scarlett Johansson and June Squibb; Music producer Mark Ronson
Squibb explains how she lobbied Johansson to direct Eleanor The Great. Ronson's memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City.
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'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' is a terrific, tangled love story
This is an epic novel to be savored. At nearly 700 pages, this multi-character, multi-stranded story explores exile and displacement — not only from one's home, but also from one's own sense of self.
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Marking 50 years of 'Dog Day Afternoon' with director Sidney Lumet and star Al Pacino
The 1975 film was based on a real-life Brooklyn bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation and a media circus. Lumet's interview originally aired in 1998; Pacino's was broadcast in 2024.
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'The Rock' returns as 'The Smashing Machine' (and says his mom will love this interview)
The former WWE wrestler considered pursuing a career in mixed martial arts before realizing, "I don't like getting punched in the face." Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in a new film.
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What happens when the firewall between the White House and the DOJ comes down?
President Trump is pressuring the Department of Justice to pursue his political enemies, like former FBI director James Comey. Legal scholar Barbara McQuade explains how this damages the rule of law.
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'I can't stop DJing,' Mark Ronson says — never mind the back pain
Ronson's memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City. Ronson would go on to produce music for Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and other pop superstars.
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Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has 'brought it all back'
For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Cookbook author Samin Nosrat; Memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert
Salt Fat Acid Heat author Nosrat shares recipes in Good Things. Justin Chang reviews A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Gilbert opens up about sex, drugs and codependency in All the Way to the River.
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Cheers to 'House of Guinness,' which feels like an 1860s, Irish 'Succession'
A new Netflix show by the creator of Peaky Blinders fictionalizes the battle for control of the venerable Irish brewing company. Family drama comes to a foamy head in this eight-part series.
