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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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St. Vincent
The songwriter, guitarist and singer known as St. Vincent took her stage name from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where the poet Dylan Thomas died. Her seventh album, All Born Screaming, is out April 26. She spoke with Terry Gross about visiting her dad in prison, touring with her aunt and uncle as a teen, and the inspiration for her hit song "New York."
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How Minority Rule Threatens Democracy
Journalist Ari Berman says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of an elite minority — and that their decisions continue to impact American democracy today. Berman's book is Minority Rule.
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Lauren Bacall's Sultry On-Screen Persona Was An Accident (Fresh Air+)
Lauren Bacall was an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, bringing a sensual glamor to the screen in every one of her many performances. That confident nonchalance began on the set of her first film, "To Have and Have Not" in 1944, and when she appeared here on Fresh Air fifty years later, she explained how it all started. Hear the entire Lauren Bacall interview here: https://n.pr/3Qaxbka. Listen to all 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: Salman Rushdie's Survival / A New Kind Of Whodunit
Writer Salman Rushdie talks about the knife attack that nearly killed him — and his life since then. In 2022, he was onstage at a literary event when the assailant ran up from the audience, and stabbed him 14 times. His new book is called Knife.
Also, Diarra Kilpatrick talks about writing and starring in the new series, Diarra From Detroit, a dark comedy about a public school teacher who is ghosted by a Tinder date and, in her quest to find out why, investigates a decades-old mystery that takes her into the underbelly of Detroit.
Ken Tucker reviews Tierra Whack's new album World Wide Whack.
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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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Customer Reviews
Keep it up
Terry Gross is 10 out of 10. The new host Mosley is 3 out of 10. Giving her a chance to grow.
Great show, but poorly edited as podcast
I was very excited to have access to Fresh Air as a podcast since I'm usually working when the show airs. The interviews are great, but the editing has been disappointing. Segment changes are choppy and episodes often end mid-sentence. The Ken Burns segment of March 15 was a particular disappointment, ending less than 10 minutes into the episode. I love the show! I just hope the editing improves.
Tonya is a star and these reviews are sad
Everyone is entitled to their opinions but I find it hard to believe that these reviews about Tonya come from real listeners. She is amazing! Smart, warm, captivating and curious. I also have the fortune of being familiar with her other work, and honestly there is no one comparable to her depth and expansiveness of talent. It’s unfair to compare her to Terry at this stage. Terry has a 50 year head start! Tonya just started hosting. If she is this good at this stage I can only imagine the heights she will take this show. I will say there is no one like Terry, and so perhaps for Tonya’s sake and talent, filling Terry’s shoes is not a fit. She should be standing in her own.