Terry Gross appears in the following:
'Fresh Air' remembers Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier
Friday, August 12, 2022
Dozier and his songwriting partners Brian and Eddie Holland wrote the Motown hits "Stop in the Name of Love," "Baby Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love." He died Aug. 8. Originally broadcast in 2003.
How the Trump White House misled the world about its family separation policy
Thursday, August 11, 2022
The Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson spent 18 months filing lawsuits for documents to put together the story of the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the border.
How the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialism
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank examines how the GOP got to where it is today, with some elected leaders and candidates still endorsing the lie that Trump won. His book is The Destructionists.
Remembering NBA legend Bill Russell
Friday, August 05, 2022
Russell, who died July 31, led the Boston Celtics to 11 NBA titles. He was also the first Black head coach in the NBA and a civil rights activist. Originally broadcast in 2001.
Remembering Irish musician and folklorist Mick Moloney
Friday, August 05, 2022
Moloney recorded or produced more than 70 albums of Irish music and is credited with bringing traditional Irish music to a wider audience. He died July 27. Originally broadcast in 2006 and 2009.
Undercover journalist in Afghanistan finds Taliban are abducting, imprisoning women
Thursday, August 04, 2022
Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover.
College is increasingly out of reach for many students. What went wrong?
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
Journalist Will Bunch says instead of opening the door to a better life, college leaves many students deep in debt and unable to find well-paying jobs. His new book is After the Ivory Tower Falls.
Remembering alternative radio pioneer Larry Josephson
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
Josephson, who died July 27, started out in 1966 as the host of a free-form morning show on WBAI in New York He later hosted shows and told jokes on many public radio stations.
New book chronicles how America's opioid industry operated like a drug cartel
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Two Washington Post journalists say pharmaceutical companies collaborated with each other — and with lawyers and lobbyists — to create laws to protect the industry. Their new book is American Cartel.
For Oscar Isaac, life — and acting — is all about impermanence
Friday, July 29, 2022
Isaac says the bonds he makes on set are both meaningful and transient. The actor is nominated for an Emmy for his role in Scenes from a Marriage. Originally broadcast Oct. 21, 2021.
'Stop the Steal' has moved beyond Trump. Now it's threatening future elections
Thursday, July 28, 2022
New York Times journalist Charles Homans says scores of groups at the state and local levels, with the help of right wing media figures and activists, are taking aim at the electoral system.
A brain injury cut short Briana Scurry's soccer career. It didn't end her story
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
After a traumatic brain injury left her in terrible pain and unable to work, the legendary goalkeeper had to pawn her Olympic medals. Scurry charts her road to recovery in My Greatest Save.
As 'Better Call Saul' wraps, Bob Odenkirk reflects on his life-changing heart attack
Monday, July 25, 2022
Odenkirk's near-fatal heart attack halted the production of the series' final season. Showrunner Peter Gould says Odenkirk's return to set was was "one of the most hopeful things imaginable."
Actor Henry Winkler reflects on his career, from the Fonz to 'Barry'
Friday, July 22, 2022
The Emmy-winning actor talks about struggling with typecasting after Happy Days, his family's immigration story and finding out in his 30s that he had dyslexia. Originally broadcast April 11, 2019.
On HBO's 'Barry,' Bill Hader asks, 'Can you change your nature?'
Friday, July 22, 2022
Hader plays a hitman who enrolls in acting classes in the dark comedy, which he co-created. He's been nominated for Emmy Awards for both acting and directing Barry. Originally broadcast June 2019.
How the CPI became the most powerful messaging force in the MAGA universe
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Journalist Maggie Severns explains how the Conservative Partnership Institute helped push the Republican party further to the right and became what she calls a "clubhouse" for insurrectionists.
Remembering sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who made monumental everyday objects
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Works by the Swedish-born artist include an oversized rubber stamp in Cleveland, a clothespin in Philadelphia and a flashlight in Las Vegas. Oldenburg died July 18. Originally broadcast in 1992.
'A Strange Loop' writer and composer started out on Broadway as an usher
Monday, July 18, 2022
Michael R. Jackson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is about a young Black gay musical theater writer named Usher, who works as an usher at a Broadway show — just like Jackson once did.
Singer-songwriter Geoff Muldaur performs jazz and blues from the '20s and '30s
Friday, July 15, 2022
Muldaur's new double CD, His Last Letter, traces the musical influences of his life, and is arranged for, and performed with, Dutch chamber musicians. Originally broadcast December 2009.
This author's 'Normal Family' includes a sperm donor dad and 35 siblings
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Chrysta Bilton's mother was a lesbian who asked a man she'd just met to be her sperm donor. It was only much later that Bilton learned the same man had donated sperm to countless other women.