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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 25, 2013 8:33pm
    Fresh Air Weekend: Soderbergh, Sarah Vaughan, Julianne Moore
    The acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between Liberace and his young lover. A new box set of Vaughan's music shows her range. In What Maisie Knew, Moore plays a troubled rock star who might initially seem like a rotten person, but Moore's performance humanizes the character.
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 10:44pm
    Two New Stories With A New-Wave Vibe
    The Truffaut borrowings are explicit in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, while Richard Linklater's Before Midnight takes its cues from Eric Rohmer's gentle but expansive talkfests. In both films, conversation is a centerpiece as characters navigate relationships.
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 10:43pm
    Marcus Samuelsson: On Becoming A Top Chef
    The James Beard award-winning chef was the youngest ever to receive a three-star review from The New York Times. His memoir, Yes, Chef, explains what it takes to be a master chef — and describes his journey from Ethiopia to Sweden to some of America's finest restaurants.
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 10:43pm
    Remembering Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist For The Doors
    The mythology surrounding The Doors generally centers on its lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison is still considered one of rock's tortured poets, but The Doors' sound was based largely on Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing. His are the riffs immortalized in songs like "Riders on the Storm."
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 8:35pm
    Two New Stories With A New-Wave Vibe
    The Truffaut borrowings are explicit in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, while Richard Linklater's Before Midnight takes its cues from Eric Rohmer's gentle but expansive talkfests. In both films, conversation is a centerpiece as characters navigate relationships.

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Remembrances
12:51 pm
Tue August 7, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Military Historian John Keegan

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British military historian John Keegan chronicled the history of warfare from Alexander the Great to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He died Thursday at age 78.
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Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 2:03 pm

British military historian John Keegan spent his life studying war, but he never fought in one and described himself as more or less a pacifist. Keegan, who died Thursday at age 78, chronicled the history of warfare from Alexander the Great to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and was considered one of the foremost military historians of his generation. His books included A History of Warfare and The Face of Battle.

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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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