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David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway
The stand-up comedian and star of In Living Color was recently nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Sporting Life in the opera Porgy and Bess. "I think the character of Sporting Life is a salesman so he has to be flamboyant, the life of the party," he says.mp3 file | windows media
'Right-Hand': A Lush Prequel To 'Mason's Retreat'
In The Right-Hand Shore, Christopher Tilghman returns to the racially charged landscape and the crumbling plantations of his book Mason's Retreat. Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan calls the prequel "the real deal."mp3 file | windows media
Sacha Baron Cohen: The Fresh Air Interview
Actor and writer Sacha Baron Cohen is famous for taking his characters — Ali G., Borat, Bruno — into the real world, interacting with people who have no idea that they're dealing with a fictional character. But his new movie, The Dictator, is a scripted comedy about a tyrant on the loose in New York.mp3 file | windows media
John Fullbright: How To Connect 'From The Ground Up'
It's a good sign when you get 11 songs into an album and the quality remains high.mp3 file | windows media
Fresh Air Weekend: Audra McDonald, 'Weight Of The Nation'
Actress Audra McDonald talks about her Tony-nominated role in the Broadway musical Porgy and Bess. And obesity expert Kelly Brownell weighs in on a new HBO documentary series, The Weight of the Nation. mp3 file | windows media
Fresh Air Remembers Donna Summer, Queen Of Disco
In 2003, Donna Summer appeared on Fresh Air to talk about her memoir, Ordinary Girl, her hit Love to Love You Baby and her collaborator, record producer Giorgio Moroder. We remember Summer — who died Thursday at the age of 63 — with excerpts from that interview.mp3 file | windows media
Remembering Vidal Sassoon, An Iconic Hairdresser
The British hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, who created some of the most iconic hairstyles of the 20th century, died on May 9 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84. Fresh Air remembers the trendsetter with excerpts from a 2011 interview.mp3 file | windows media
'The Dictator' Rules With A Satirist's Fist
There was Ali G, Borat and Bruno — and now, in The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen has a new character to add to his repertoire: the capricious ruler of an oil-rich country who travels to the U.N. to assert his right to have nuclear warheads.mp3 file | windows media