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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.
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Roots of Rock: Rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins
Perkins, who died in 1998, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1996.
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Roots of Rock: Guitarist Scotty Moore recounts playing with Elvis
Moore, who died in 2016, booked gigs for Presley during the early part of the musician's career and later penned the memoir, That's Alright, Elvis. He spoke in 1997 about recording "Blue Suede Shoes."
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Fresh Air Weekend: Daniel Dae Kim; 'Somebody Somewhere' actor Jeff Hiller
Lost actor Kim plays a spy who faked his own death in Butterfy. Justin Chang reviews the Spike Lee film Highest 2 Lowest. Somebody Somewhere actor Hiller got his big break after he was 40.
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'Weapons' exposes the dark underbelly of American suburbia
Small-town life is upended when 17 schoolchildren suddenly vanish without explanation in the middle of the night. Weapons is a spooky thriller that invites deeper interpretation.
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Remembering British actor Terence Stamp
Stamp, who died Aug. 17, was part of a wave of working-class British actors who came up in the 1960s. His films include Billy Budd, The Limey and two Superman films. Originally broadcast in 2002.
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'I regret that I didn't fight harder,' former labor secretary Robert Reich says
Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens his new memoir, Coming Up Short, with an apology on behalf of the Baby Boom generation for failing to build a more just society.
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Two genre novels offer entertainment -- and plenty of wry social commentary
Dan Fesperman's spy caper Pariah follows a disgraced comic-politician who's recruited by the CIA. The Dancing Face, by Mike Phillips, is a crime caper that confronts the spoils of colonialism.
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How Attorney General Pam Bondi has reshaped the Justice Department to suit Trump
The New Yorker's Ruth Marcus says Bondi has presided over the DOJ's most convulsive transition of power since Watergate, aggressively reversing policies, investigating Trump's foes and firing staff.
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With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee puts a hip-hop spin on Kurosawa's 1963 classic
Lee's new film centers on a music mogul who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend's son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn't his?
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'SNL' castmember Bowen Yang shares a piece of 'cultural contraband' from his youth
Growing up with immigrant parents, first in Canada and then in the U.S., Yang was "obsessed" with pop culture and Saturday Night Live. Now he's up for an Emmy for his performances on the venerated sketch series.
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Fresh Air Weekend: An author asks ChatGPT for advice; Inside Condé Nast's decline
Vauhini Vara examines how tech is helping and exploiting us in Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age. Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday, and decline, of magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair.
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Novelist Thomas Mallon looks back on the early years of the AIDS epidemic
In 2023, Mallon spoke about his novel, Up With the Sun, which is based on the life of a little-known actor who was gay and closeted. His new book is The Very Heart of it: New York Diaries, 1983-1994.
