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Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! You'll enjoy bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening - all while you support NPR's mission. Learn more at plus.npr.org/freshair
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Remembering PBS Anchor Robert MacNeil
Longtime PBS news anchor Robert MacNeil died last week at 93. He spoke with Terry Gross a few times over the course of his journalism career. We revisit those conversations.
Also, we listen back to Eleanor Coppola's 1992 interview about her documentary, Hearts of Darkness. It chronicles the chaotic filming of Francis Ford Coppola's movie Apocalypse Now. She also died last week, at age 87.
David Bianculli reviews HBO's The Jinx — Part Two, which picks up where The Jinx left off: With Robert Durst admitting to murder.
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Our Fragile Food System
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser says mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated and sometimes dangerous. His new documentary with Michael Pollan is Food, Inc. 2.
Also, Justin Chang reviews the film The Beast.
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A Death Doula Says 'Get Real' About The End
Alua Arthur works with families, caretakers, and people close to death who want to be intentional about the end of life. She's learned through her work and her own experiences with loss that facing the inevitable can help lessen the anxiety and fear so many of us have around death. Her new book is called, Briefly Perfectly Human.
Also, we remember painter Faith Ringgold, who died Saturday at the age of 93.
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Salman Rushdie On Surviving Attempted Murder
Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying in the company of strangers — that was what was going through my mind." His new book is Knife.
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A First Date Turns Into A Whodunit In 'Diarra From Detroit'
Growing up, when Diarra Kilpatrick watched murder mystery shows with her grandmother, she never saw Black women driving the narrative. Her new BET+ series seeks to change that. It's called Diarra From Detroit.
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Julia Child Masters The Art Of The Fresh Air Interview (Fresh Air+)
The pioneering public television chef and cookbook author, Julia Child, only appeared on Fresh Air a single time, in 1989 — but her appearance was, like much of her career, warm and quirky and utterly charming. Hear the full Julia Child interview: https://n.pr/49iKu9f. Listen to all 40+ years of Fresh Air: https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.
Customer Reviews
Still waiting for Sarah Silverman to apologize for her ch**k slur
Still waiting for Sarah Silverman to apologize for her ch**k slur she and Bill Maher threw off for laughs. Haven’t been able to stand either of them since
Less tony
Little less Tonya
Is it ok to review the low star reviews?
Longtime fan of Terry Gross and her decades long career of long-form interviews. Her work speaks for itself. For 30+ years the interview form had been twisted by tabloid tv, press junkets and pop culture trends. With the hateful contemporary comment section culture the internet brought us it’s so comforting to hear a singular engaged intellect who has decades long relationships with some of her guests, an obvious research discipline, and an uncanny ability to hold her own with seasoned experts in so many areas of culture, science and always with a deep personal ability for discovery and insight. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard guests truly compelled and wondrous by the insightful questions and observations Terry presents.
The dismissive nature from some of the low star reviews here is childish and unbelievably narcissistic. I’m not sure why Apple seems to stick some of the worst permanently in the main page (I've seen the same ones there for months, not sure why since it’s not helpful or interesting to have these personal gripes define what this 40 year catalog of deep and detailed conversations is really about).
Ignore the foolish haters and listen for yourselves.