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

Interviews with authors, entertainers, and news makers.

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  • 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.
  • 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.

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Music Reviews
10:22 am
Tue September 11, 2012

Bob Dylan's Baffling And Sometimes Beautiful 'Tempest'

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Bob Dylan's Tempest features 10 new songs with many feisty, baffling, sometimes beautiful moments.
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The Tempest album cover.
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Originally published on Tue September 11, 2012 1:48 pm

Bob Dylan made the rare mistake of talking about his creative process shortly before the release of Tempest. He told Rolling Stone that he'd originally wanted to write a collection of what he called "religious songs," saying, "That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off — 10 times with the same thread than it does with a record like I ended up with." Which means that either his powers of concentration failed him, or he became distracted by other themes, topics and moods.

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Television
12:41 pm
Mon September 10, 2012

Andrew Rannells: Gay And Serious In 'New Normal'

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Andrew Rannells plays Bryan Buckley, a successful TV show producer and writer, in the new comedy The New Normal.
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Originally published on Tue September 11, 2012 10:23 am

After Andrew Rannells pitched himself for a starring role in NBC's The New Normal, the show's creator didn't call for a month.

"I was like, 'Oh my God, I've completely overstepped — I've over-Oprah-ed this,' " Rannells tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I've ruined my chances of working with this man because I was too bold."

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Music Reviews
11:42 am
Mon September 10, 2012

The Forgotten Story Of Memphis' American Studios

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"Son of a Preacher Man" was Dusty Springfield's debut on Atlantic. The entire album that spawned it, Dusty in Memphis, was recorded at American Studios.
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Originally published on Mon September 10, 2012 12:41 pm

Memphis has been a music town since anyone can remember, and it's had places to record that music since there have been records. Some of its studios — Sun, Stax and Hi — are well-known, but American Studios produced its share of hits, and yet it remains obscure. But that's all likely to change with Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios, both a book and a CD out now.

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Fresh Air Weekend
11:03 am
Sat September 8, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Feathers, Cellphones As Trackers

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Thor Hanson's own cast of Archaeopteryx lithographica presents what he calls the "ancient wing written in stone."
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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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Music Interviews
12:55 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Grammy Winner Hal David

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Burt Bacharach with Hal David (right).
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 4:23 pm

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