NPR Programs: Fresh Air Podcast
Summary: Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.
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Podcasts:
Stories: 1) Ravitch: Standardized Testing Undermines Teaching 2) Rotherham: Don't Discount Charter School Model 3) Bullwinkle DVD: Take A Trip In The Wayback Machine
Stories: 1) Obama's Foreign Policy: The First Two Years 2) Emmylou Harris: An Invigorating, Inviting 'Hard Bargain' 3) Foster Wallace: An Ordinary Guy Who Couldn't Be
Stories: 1) Examining Bernie Madoff, 'The Wizard Of Lies' 2) Bombino: High-Energy Sounds From 'Agadez,' Niger
Stories: 1) Where To Find The World's Most 'Wicked Bugs' 2) You Won't Feel A Thing: Your Brain On Anesthesia 3) Remembering Hazel Dickens: A Feminist Bluegrass Voice
Stories: 1) An Oncologist's Pulitzer-Winning Cancer Biography 2) A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Horror 3) This Weekend, HBO Has Something For Everyone
Story: Combat photographer Joao Silva is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he's recovering after losing his legs in an explosion in October. Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shot four times while covering conflicts. Silva and Marinovich talk about life as war photographers with Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
Stories: 1) Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams' 2) The Past, Always Present In The Atacama Dark 3) Tim Berne: Slow-Cooked Jazz
Stories: 1) Our 'Toxic' Love-Hate Relationship With Plastics 2) How The Bristol Sessions Changed Country Music 3) An Old Romance Blooms Anew In 'Love Of My Youth'
Stories: 1) Jon Sarkin: When Brain Injuries Transform Into Art 2) Ernie Kovacs: The King Of Early Television Comedy
Stories: 1) Sidney Lumet: A Director Who Gave Actors His All 2) Will Ferrell: The Comedian Reflects On 'Fiction' 3) 'The Conspirator': A Trying Trial For Lincoln's Foes
Story: Michelle Williams plays settler Emily Tetherow in Kelly Reichardt's frontier drama Meek's Cutoff. Both Williams and Reichardt join Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a discussion about the film, which was shot with exquisite landscapes and virtually no dialogue.
Story: Tina Fey's new memoir Bossypants contains her thoughts on juggling motherhood, acting, writing and executive producing 30 Rock. Fey joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a wide-ranging conversation about her years in comedy, her childhood and her 2008 portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.
Stories: 1) Looking At The Civil War 150 Years Later 2) Edwyn Collins: 'Losing Sleep' And Continuing Life
Stories: 1) The Worldwide 'Thirst' For Clean Drinking Water 2) The Smithereens' Sweet Nostalgia, With Fresh Variations
Stories: 1) 'Moby-Duck': When 28,800 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea 2) The Vagrants: A Hot '60s Band, For Exactly Four Years 3) The Joy Of The Mundane In 'Emily, Alone'
