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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.
Episodes
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Fresh Air Weekend: Seth Rogen; The battle for young male voters
Seth Rogen lands the "tragic job" of movie exec in The Studio. Ken Tucker recommends three new songs. New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz explains how Democrats can win back young male voters.
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'The Alto Knights' is a mob drama with a double dose of De Niro and ... not much else
Robert De Niro plays rival mob bosses in a new biographical crime drama. But while it's fun to watch De Niro argue with himself, The Alto Knights ultimately feels dubious and derivative.
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Tim Curry remembers his first film role in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'
The 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror turns 50 this year. To mark the occasion, we listen back to a 2005 interview with Curry, who played the cross-dressing scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
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Remembering award-winning sports journalist John Feinstein
Feinstein, who died March 13, was known for his insights, and inside portraits, of some of the most talented and temperamental characters in sports. Originally broadcast in 2011.
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As young male voters shift Right, can the Left compete in the 'battle for the bros'?
Popular podcasts in the "manosphere" helped sway young men to go MAGA in the 2024 election. New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz explains how Democrats can win them back.
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New songs by Teddy Swims, Benjamin Booker and Neil Young let loose with big emotions
Rock critic Ken Tucker recommends three songs that are recent additions to his playlist: "Are You Even Real," by Swims; "Same Kind of Lonely," by Booker; and "big change," by Young.
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'AI Valley' author worries there's 'so much power in the hands of few people'
Author Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: "AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education ... as long as we're deliberate about it."
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Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait
Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska.
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A police officer investigates her own sister's disappearance in 'Long Bright River'
Set in a Philadelphia neighborhood that's been ravaged by opioids, Amanda Seyfried stars in this heartfelt Peacock series that centers wounded communities and families.
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Seth Rogen lands the 'tragic job' of studio executive in his new comedy series
Rogen plays a flustered Hollywood studio head in a new Apple TV+ show. These executives "really could get fired at any moment for anything," Rogen says — and their feedback is often based in fear.
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'Red Scare' revisits the fear of Communism that gripped post-WWII America
Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.
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'The Pitt' and 'Adolescence' offer a radical, real-time approach to TV storytelling
Each episode HBO's The Pitt presents an hour of a shift in a Pittsburgh ER, while each episode of Netflix's brilliant Adolescence considers the murder of a teenage girl from a different point of view.
