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

Interviews with authors, entertainers, and news makers.

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  • Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:33pm
    Fresh Air Weekend: Gerwig, Baumbach, Dawes And Polley
    In Frances Ha, a 27-year-old (Greta Gerwig) navigates New York City — and the transition from prolonged adolescence to proper adulthood. Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach co-wrote the script. Dawes has a new album, Stories Don't End. In a documentary, Sarah Polley turns the camera on her own family.
  • Friday, May 17, 2013 8:33pm
    Jerry Lee Lewis: Live, Singing As If Life Depended On It
    In 1958, Lewis suffered a precipitous decline in popularity when people learned that his new wife was not only 13, but also his cousin. Nobody would touch his records. Then, in 1963, he signed a deal with Smash and it looked like things were getting better.
  • Friday, May 17, 2013 8:33pm
    Bill Hader On Sketch Comedy, Classic Hollywood
    This weekend will be Hader's final romp on Saturday Night Live. He joined the cast in 2005 and has been nominated for an Emmy for his character Stefon, an obsessive clubgoer. Hader talks about not understanding how people do standup and about watching old films, which sparked his interest in Hollywood.
  • Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:33pm
    'Into Darkness,' Boldly And With A Few Twists
    The 12th film based on Gene Roddenberry's '60s sci-fi TV show is the second to star a new group of actors as Kirk, Spock and their crew. J.J. Abrams returns as director, and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch plays the memorable villain.
  • Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:33pm
    100 Years Of Woody Herman: The Early Bloomer Who Kept Blooming
    In a career that ran from the 1930s into the 1980s, and included work in big bands and rock 'n' roll, the clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader changed to reflect the times. Herman would have turned 100 on May 16.

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Author Interviews
12:35 pm
Tue August 7, 2012

'Antietam' Dissects Strategies Of North And South

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Richard Slotkin is a professor of English and American studies at Wesleyan University. His other books include Lost Battalions, The Crater and Gunfighter Nation.
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Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 1:23 pm

In the earliest days of the Civil War, the Union Army focused on cutting off key supply lines on the periphery of the South. The approach was designed to hurt the South's economy and convince its citizens to return to the Union.

Even though President Lincoln said slavery was unjust, in the earliest days of the war he told the Southern states that he wouldn't interfere with slavery as an institution.

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Television
12:23 pm
Mon August 6, 2012

Dean Norris On Playing Good In 'Breaking Bad'

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Dean Norris plays DEA agent Hank Schrader in AMC's Breaking Bad. "He's a good cop, he just hasn't put the pieces together yet," Norris says.
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Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 12:54 pm

With each season of AMC's Breaking Bad, Dean Norris' character, DEA agent Hank Schrader, has evolved from a knuckleheaded jock into a complex, sympathetic and even heroic counterpoint to the show's anti-hero, high-school chemistry teacher turned meth cook Walter White. And to further complicate matters, Schrader and White (played by Bryan Cranston) are brothers-in-law.

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Music Reviews
10:58 am
Mon August 6, 2012

Dan Auerbach Likes It Fast, Simple And Loud

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Producer Dan Auerbach achieves an ideal version of JEFF The Brotherhood and Hacienda on their respective new albums.
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Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 12:23 pm

Dan Auerbach, one of two founders of The Black Keys, also maintains an active side business as a producer for other bands that share his love for blues- and country-influenced rock. Auerbach's production work can be heard on two new records: Hacienda's third album, Shakedown, and the major-label debut of JEFF The Brotherhood, titled Hypnotic Nights.

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Fresh Air Weekend
8:03 am
Sat August 4, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Feminists, Models, Roma Music

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In About Face, former supermodels (including Carmen Dell'Orefice shown above) talk about what it's like to grow old in an industry that is obsessed with youth.
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Originally published on Sat August 4, 2012 11:36 am

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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Remembrances
12:09 pm
Fri August 3, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal authored the historical novels Burr and Lincoln, wrote plays and provocative essays, ran for office twice — and lost — and frequently appeared on TV talk shows. His play The Best Man currently has a revival on Broadway.
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Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 2:03 pm

In Gore Vidal's New York Times obituary, Charles McGrath described the writer as "the elegant, acerbic all around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization." Vidal died Tuesday at the age of 86.

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