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Monday through Friday, 11am - 12noon; Monday through Thursday, 7pm - 8pm
Terry Gross

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics.  Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program.  The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions.  Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.

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Music Reviews
11:56 am
Fri July 13, 2012

Tanglewood Celebrates 75th With Free Web Stream

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The scene at Tanglewood.
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Originally published on Sun July 15, 2012 9:53 am

On July 20, 1958, at Tanglewood — the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra — pianist Leon Fleisher played an electrifying Brahms First Piano Concerto with the orchestra under its former music director, Pierre Monteux. This remarkable teaming has not been heard since then.

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Television
10:19 am
Fri July 13, 2012

Aaron Paul: Playing A Meth Dealer On 'Breaking Bad'

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Aaron Paul plays a meth-making drug dealer on the AMC drama Breaking Bad. He also played a recurring character on the HBO series Big Love.
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Originally published on Fri July 13, 2012 11:56 am

This interview was originally broadcast on September 19, 2011. Breaking Bad begins its fifth season on Sunday, July 15th at 10 PM EST.

Vince Gilligan's AMC drama Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston as a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White who turns to dealing drugs after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. White's partner-in-crime throughout the series is his former student Jesse Pinkman, played by actor Aaron Paul.

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Movie Reviews
4:03 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

'Margaret': The Tortured Journey Of A Girl, On Screen

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Sarah Steele, Anna Paquin and Matthew Broderick in Margaret. The DVD release of Kenneth Lonergan's long-delayed second film includes the theatrical version and an extended 186-minute cut.
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Mark Ruffalo, who along with Broderick acted in Lonergan's breakout first film, You Can Count on Me, is part of an ensemble cast that also includes Matt Damon and Rosemarie DeWitt.
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Originally published on Fri July 13, 2012 11:56 am

"A fiasco with a great first half" is what I called Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret when it was dumped in one New York theater last fall, five years after it was shot, amid a legal battle between Lonergan and a producer.

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Music Interviews
11:03 am
Thu July 12, 2012

Fresh Air Celebrates Woody Guthrie At 100

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Woody Guthrie
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Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection is available from Smithsonian Folkways.
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Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 11:52 am

Lots of people know Woody Guthrie's classic 1940 ballad "This Land Is Your Land," but the story behind the tune may not be as familiar.

Guthrie, who would have turned 100 this week, wrote "This Land" as a response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," a song he felt was overly patriotic and not directed at ordinary Americans like himself.

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Television
9:03 am
Thu July 12, 2012

The 'Political Animals' Running Washington, D.C.

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In Political Animals, Sigourney Weaver plays Elaine Barrish, the current secretary of state and a former first lady.
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Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 2:36 pm

If you only knew about America from watching TV, the last few months might lead you to think that women here wield enormous political power. First you had Game Change, the story of Sarah Palin's attempt to become vice president. Then you had Veep, in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character has accomplished just that. Now comes Political Animals, a new USA network series about a strong female secretary of state who I suspect even a Martian would realize is based on Hillary Clinton.

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