Fresh Air

Weekday at 6:00 p.m on News and Talk and News and Classical, Weekdays at 11:00 pm on News and Talk

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. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network.

Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.

Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR.

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Tom Cruise's Latest Headed For 'Oblivion'

By David Edelstein

Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 8:05 am

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TERRY GROSS, HOST:

In December, Tom Cruise starred as the title character in the film "Jack Reacher." In "Oblivion," which opened on Friday, he plays another Jack, one of few humans left on an Earth devastated by an alien invasion. "Oblivion" is based on a graphic novel co-written by Joseph Kosinski, who went on to direct the film, and it costars Morgan Freeman and Melissa Leo. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.

8:41 am

Sat April 20, 2013

Fresh Air Weekend: Junger, Paisley And A Serial-Killing Nurse

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Photographer Tim Hetherington during an assignment for Vanity Fair Magazine at the Restrepo outpost.

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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

1:41 pm

Fri April 19, 2013

David Bianculli On Media Coverage Of The Marathon Explosions

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Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 7:41 pm

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Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli talks with Terry Gross about the media coverage surrounding the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

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1:41 pm

Fri April 19, 2013

For Boston: A Dave McKenna Concert

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Originally published on Sat April 20, 2013 6:58 am

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Fresh Air pays tribute to Boston with a 1988 performance by the late jazz pianist Dave McKenna. From 1981 to 1991, McKenna had a standing gig at Boston's Grand Dame Copley Plaza Hotel. He was also a loyal Red Sox fan. He died in 2008.

Explosions At Boston Marathon

9:27 am

Fri April 19, 2013

'Messing With The Wrong City' And Boston Media Coverage

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Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 7:41 pm

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Author Dennis Lehane talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his New York Times op-ed, "Messing with the Wrong City," which expressed his love for his hometown.

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8:53 am

Thu April 18, 2013

Sebastian Junger: 'Which Way' To Turn After Hetherington's Death

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Photographer Tim Hetherington during an assignment for Vanity Fair Magazine at the Restrepo outpost.

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War photographer Tim Hetherington said he thought war was wired into young men. And he risked, and ultimately gave, his life to capture these young men in photographs and video — in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and other war zones. Hetherington was killed by shrapnel from a mortar round while taking pictures in Libya in 2011, during the uprising against President Moammar Gadhafi.

11:15 am

Wed April 17, 2013

'The Hell Of American Day Care': Expensive And 'Mediocre'

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Journalist Jonathan Cohn's article in the April 29 issue of The New Republic is called "The Hell of American Day Care."

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Originally published on Wed April 17, 2013 11:49 am

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In his cover story for the April 29 issue of The New Republic, "The Hell of American Day Care," Jonathan Cohn writes that "trusting your child with someone else is one of the hardest things a parent has to do — and in the U.S., it's harder still, because American day care is a mess. And about 40 percent of children under 5 spend at least part of their week in the care of somebody other than a parent."

8:52 am

Wed April 17, 2013

Brad Paisley's 'Wheelhouse' Of Good Songs — And Intentions

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Brad Paisley's new album is titled Wheelhouse.

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Country-music superstar Brad Paisley has had 32 singles hit the Billboard country charts.

By Ken Tucker

Originally published on Wed April 17, 2013 11:15 am

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Brad Paisley's Wheelhouse is yet another very good album from a singer, songwriter and guitarist who's made a bunch of them in a row. It features a slew of shrewd songs about finding pleasure and comfort in a frequently unpleasant, uncomfortable world. The music includes a bone-cracking song about domestic violence written from a woman's point of view, one that praises Christian values from the perspective of a jealous skeptic, and one that samples the great Roger Miller as deftly as any hip-hop production.

8:07 am

Wed April 17, 2013

Marathoner Amby Burfoot: 'Every Mile Out There Is A Gift'

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Originally published on Wed April 17, 2013 11:15 am

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TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. When the bombs went off Monday, my guest Amby Burfoot was seven-tenths of a mile from the finish line. Burfoot has a special place in the history of the Boston Marathon - he was the winner 45 years ago in 1968. To celebrate the anniversary of his win every five years he runs the Boston Marathon again. Many runners have turned to Burfoot for advice over the years.

12:16 pm

Tue April 16, 2013

How Evangelical Christians Are Preaching The New Gospel Of Adoption

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Kathryn Joyce is a journalist based in New York City. She is the author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement and as associate editor at Religion Dispatches.

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We're used to thinking of adoption as a way for infertile couples or single people to start a family or take in a child in need of a home.

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9:03 am

Mon April 22, 2013