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FA | Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air Weekend: Novelist Rumaan Alam; 'My Octopus Teacher' Filmmaker

October 24, 2020

Alam discusses his new novel, Leave the World Behind. John Powers reviews a reissue of Prince's Sign O' the Times. Craig Foster's new documentary chronicles his unlikely friendship with an octopus.

FA | TV Reviews

Secrets And Betrayals Upend A Seemingly Perfect Life In 'The Undoing'

October 23, 2020

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant star as a married couple on the brink of unraveling in David E. Kelley's new HBO miniseries, based on Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel, You Should Have Known.

FA | Author Interviews

'Fresh Air' Reflects On The Psychedelic Movement

October 23, 2020

We listen to a 1983 interview with psychologist Timothy Leary, a 1990 interview with spiritual leader Ram Dass and a 2018 interview with How to Change Your Mind author Michael Pollan.

FA | Law

Nina Totenberg On Amy Coney Barrett, Anita Hill And Saying Goodbye To RBG

October 22, 2020

NPR's legal correspondent has spent decades covering major shifts in the Supreme Court. "Often, in the beginning, I was the only woman in the newsroom," Totenberg says.

FA | Author Interviews

Novelist Sigrid Nunez On Climate Change, Mortality And Life In A Pandemic

October 21, 2020

Nunez's latest novel, What Are You Going Through, is about facing the possible death of our planet from climate change — while also dealing with our mortality as individuals.

FA | Music Reviews

CD Set Of Leontyne Price's Live Performances At The Met Opera Is A Treasure

October 21, 2020

Price, now 93, was the first African American soprano to have a major career at the Metropolitan Opera. Critics and fans agreed that she had one of the most beautiful singing voices they'd ever heard.

FA | Television

'The Queen's Gambit' Centers On The Kind Of Chess Prodigy We Seldom See

October 21, 2020

A brilliant young woman crashes the traditionally male world of chess in Netflix's seven-part miniseries based on Walter Tevis' addictive novel.

FA | Music Reviews

Latin Jazz Album 'El Duelo' Features Lively Solos And Moments Of Surprising Beauty

October 20, 2020

For 30 years, trumpet and flugelhorn player Diego Urcola has toured and recorded with Cuba-born saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera. For his own new album, Urcola hired his boss as featured sideman.

FA | Politics

Unfettered Free Speech Is A Threat To Democracy, Journalist Says

October 20, 2020

New York Times Magazine writer Emily Bazelon says false content moves through the Internet unchecked — undermining the political process along the way: "Lies often go viral faster than truth."

FA | History

John Brown And Abraham Lincoln: Divergent Paths In The Fight To End Slavery

October 19, 2020

In The Zealot and the Emancipator, historian H.W. Brands reflects on two 19th century leaders who fought the institution of slavery in different ways: one radical and the other reformist.

Fresh Air

Schedule

Fresh Air Weekend: Novelist Rumaan Alam; 'My Octopus Teacher' Filmmaker

Secrets And Betrayals Upend A Seemingly Perfect Life In 'The Undoing'

'Fresh Air' Reflects On The Psychedelic Movement

Nina Totenberg On Amy Coney Barrett, Anita Hill And Saying Goodbye To RBG

Novelist Sigrid Nunez On Climate Change, Mortality And Life In A Pandemic

CD Set Of Leontyne Price's Live Performances At The Met Opera Is A Treasure

'The Queen's Gambit' Centers On The Kind Of Chess Prodigy We Seldom See

Latin Jazz Album 'El Duelo' Features Lively Solos And Moments Of Surprising Beauty

Unfettered Free Speech Is A Threat To Democracy, Journalist Says

John Brown And Abraham Lincoln: Divergent Paths In The Fight To End Slavery

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