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Fresh Air

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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Author Interviews
6:39 am
Mon January 16, 2012

Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America

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Michelle Alexander is an associate law professor at The Ohio State University. She clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and is a graduate of Stanford Law School.
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Under Jim Crow laws, black Americans were relegated to a subordinate status for decades. Things like literacy tests for voters and laws designed to prevent blacks from serving on juries were commonplace in nearly a dozen Southern states.

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Fresh Air Weekend
8:41 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Gary Oldman, Rin Tin Tin

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Oldman played Sirius Black to Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter in the blockbuster franchise.
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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:

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Television
9:56 am
Fri January 13, 2012

Walton Goggins: Playing Bad Boy Boyd On 'Justified'

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This interview was originally broadcast on May 26, 2010. Justified returns for a third season on Fx on January 17, 2012 at 10pm EST.

One of actor Walton Goggins' earliest moments on stage came at a Georgia hog-calling competition when he was just 10 years old.

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Television
9:56 am
Fri January 13, 2012

Timothy Olyphant: Laying Down 'Justified' Laws

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Timothy Olyphant plays Raylan Givens, a present-day U.S. marshal with Wild West inclinations on the FX series Justified.
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This interview was originally broadcast on March 28, 2011. Justified begins its third season next week.

Timothy Olyphant plays Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on the FX series Justified.

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Movie Reviews
2:02 pm
Thu January 12, 2012

An 'Iron Lady' Fully Inhabited By Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep (center) stars as Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's biopic about the former prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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Streep plays Margaret Thatcher — and Jim Broadbent her supportive husband, Denis — in The Iron Lady.
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I admit I was biased against the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady. Not, you understand, against Thatcher and her Tory politics. Against Meryl Streep and her accents. Which are great, no doubt. But I went in resolved not to fall for her pyrotechnics yet again. I wanted realism.

Well, it didn't take long to realize that I was watching not only one of the greatest impersonations I'd ever seen — but one that was also emotionally real.

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