Fresh Air
Weekdays 3 PM, 9 PM
Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.
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The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell’s early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach and follows his trajectory to a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer and producer. -
Many music lovers consider Ives, who died in 1954, to be the first truly great American composer. A new recording by pianist Donald Berman is a major addition to the Ives discography.
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Will Ferrell and his longtime friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele traveled from New York to California, talking along the way about Steele coming out as a trans woman. -
Pitt and Clooney play competing Hollywood "fixers" in this Apple TV+ film. The movie feels lazy and low-key, but these charismatic actors deftly deliver mocking silences and barbed asides. -
Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. "Me and Bobby McGee" is perhaps his most famous song. Originally broadcast in 1999.
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Smith, who died Sept. 27, was best known to American audiences for her roles in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey. She won two Academy Awards in a career that spanned nearly seven decades.
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Netflix's 10-part series features Adam Brody and Kristen Bell as 30-something singles who meet and are attracted to one another, despite the fact that he's a rabbi and she's not Jewish.
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The economy is always a top issue for voters. David Wessel, director of the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center, compares the presidential candidates' plans on taxes, tariffs, housing and more.
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"America does not function without Latino immigrants," Leguizamo says. His new three-part PBS docuseries, VOCES American Historia, highlights Latino contributions to American history and culture. -
It’ll be tricky for the writers to hit the right comic and satirical tones for the remainder of this election, but SNL has a good cast this year, with some promising new additions.
