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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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Rob McElhenney On 'Welcome To Wrexham'
'The Always Sunny in Philadelphia' co-creator and co-star bought a Welsh football club during the pandemic. McElhenney says he and actor Ryan Reynolds bought the team to "bring hope to a town that had fallen on hard times." The FX series 'Welcome to Wrexham,' now in its third season on Hulu, chronicles the team, its owners and fans.
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Questlove On Hip-Hop And History
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson still remembers the first time he heard The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit "Rapper's Delight." It felt like a paradigm shift: "Suddenly they start talking in rhythmic poetry and we didn't know what to make of it," The Roots bandleader says. Questlove's new book is Hip-Hop is History.
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Actor Griffin Dunne Revisits His Hollywood Childhood
Dunne grew up in Beverly Hills, in a family of storytellers — including his father, author Dominic. He talks about his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique. Dunne's new memoir is 'The Friday Afternoon Club.'
Maureen Corrigan reviews 'Consent,' by Jill Ciment.
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Architect Zaha Hadid Never Quite Broke Free From Prejudice (Fresh Air+)
Architect Zaha Hadid was an architect who wore the 'starchitect' moniker near the end of her career — a big name with big expectations and international critical attention. But in her 2004 conversation with Terry, conducted right after she won the prestigious Pritzker Prize, Hadid revealed how familiar patterns of institutional prejudice still followed her, even then at the height of international acclaim. Listen to Zaha Hadid's interview in full: https://n.pr/3KrRsyx. Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.
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Best Of: 'Merrily We Roll Along'; MSNBC Host Ali Velshi
Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along flopped when it debuted in 1981. But its Broadway revival has been a hit, garnering seven Tony nominations. We talk with director Maria Friedman, who was a friend of Sondheim's, and actor Jonathan Groff.
MSNBC host Ali Velshi traces his family's migration across three continents, from a village in India to South Africa — where his grandfather crossed paths with Mahatma Gandhi — to Kenya, Canada and the U.S. Velshi's new memoir is Small Acts of Courage.
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Julio Torres Spins Immigration Stress into Satire
Comic, actor and filmmaker Julio Torres came to the U.S. from El Salvador in his early 20s — and he says he is personally familiar with "all the Catch-22s of the immigration system." Torres addressed immigration in Problemista; his new HBO comedy series is Fantasmas. Plus, John Powers reviews Becoming Karl Lagerfeld.
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Customer Reviews
Love the show!
I love love love the show! A solid 5 star rating. However, there’s sometimes disturbing background noice. F.ex. the interview with Benjamin Wittes. The noice is clearly on the interviewee’s end, and it unfortunately takes the focus away from the topic. Soundcheck?
Indispensable
This show is not so much a breath of fresh air as an hour-long gateway into that other, more utopian world we all wished we lived in, one full of wit, intelligence, and interesting conversations – mostly inquisitive and good-natured, at times confrontational and pointed, always interesting and well-informed. The show is typically structured around two interviews conducted by Terry Gross, lasting roughly 30 and 15 minutes respectively, with clip shows often featuring 3-4 shorter extracts and the odd movie or music review; the interviewees range from actors and politicians to sportsmen and writers, some A-level and some unknown, who are either in the news or have otherwise managed to pique Terry Gross’s curiosity.
Highly recommended
No matter how well informed you think you are, this program will ad heaps to your knowledge base. Absolutely fantastic!