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Monday-Thursday 6:00-7:00 PM
Terry Gross

Interviews with authors, entertainers, and news makers.

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  • Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:31pm
    Daft Punk: Accessing Electronic Music's Humanity
    Random Access Memories finds the French duo changing its music-making process in an effort to make its songs sound more human. To that end, Daft Punk enlists guest stars such as Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:30pm
    Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process
    After years trying to conceive, novelist Jennifer Gilmore and her husband decided to adopt. What they thought would be a relatively simple process was instead a long and painful one. In her latest novel, Gilmore channels these autobiographical experiences into fiction.
  • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:35pm
    Soderbergh's Liberace, 'Behind The Candelabra'
    In his new HBO film, the acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between the flamboyant entertainer and Scott Thorson, who was 40 years Liberace's junior and still a teenager when they met. Michael Douglas plays Liberace and Matt Damon plays Thorson.
  • Monday, May 20, 2013 8:33pm
    Sarah Vaughan: A New Box Set Revels In Glorious Imperfections
    Divine: The Jazz Albums, 1954-1958 packs four CDs with Vaughan's music, recorded live or in the studio with bands big and small. Two live albums from Chicago nightclubs are standouts, partly when a performance threatens to slide off the rails.
  • Monday, May 20, 2013 8:33pm
    Mel Brooks: 'I'm An EGOT; I Don't Need Any More'
    The screenwriter, producer, director and actor, whose name has become synonymous with American comedy, talks about his penchant for spoofs and his decades-long friendship with Carl Reiner. Brooks, who is among a handful of people who've won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards, is the subject of a new documentary on PBS.

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Fresh Air Weekend
8:49 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Andrew Rannells, Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan's Tempest features 10 new songs with many feisty, baffling, sometimes beautiful moments.
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

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11:15 am
Sat September 22, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend

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Fresh Air Weekend

History
11:57 am
Fri September 21, 2012

Civil War Historian Drew Gilpin Faust On PBS

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Historian Drew Gilpin Faust speaks onstage at the American Experience Death and the Civil War panel in July.
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Originally published on Thu November 8, 2012 10:57 am

This interview was originally broadcast on Jan. 9, 2008. Gilpin is featured in PBS's American Experience called Death and the Civil War. It premiered Sept.

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Movie Reviews
10:21 am
Fri September 21, 2012

The Art Of Preserving A High School 'Wallflower'

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Charlie (Logan Lerman), Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson) navigate the joys and pains of high school in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Charlie must wrestle with his feelings for Sam, an older girl who shows him kindness.
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Originally published on Fri September 21, 2012 11:57 am

The hero of both the novel and the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a high school freshman loner named Charlie whose best friend committed suicide the previous spring. He's on psychiatric meds, lots of them, and still has blackouts and mysterious visions of a doting aunt who died when he was 7.

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Music Reviews
8:48 am
Fri September 21, 2012

Vince Guaraldi Didn't Just Play For 'Peanuts'

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Vince Guaraldi had range, as well as an instrumental hit right when jazz was vanishing from AM radio.
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Originally published on Fri September 21, 2012 11:57 am

There must have been times in 1963, when Vince Guaraldi was riding high on his surprise hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind," when he thought, "This is what I'll be remembered for." Not that he minded. He said taking requests for the tune was like signing the back of a check. The song's got a great hook tied to a poppy, uplifting chord sequence.

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