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How Charlie Kirk Became A Voice Of Conservative Youth
Episode Date: September 17, 2025In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, NYT reporter Robert Draper talks with Terry Gross about the conservative activist's rise and...
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Mary Roach On Our Remarkable, Replaceable Bodies
Episode Date: September 16, 2025Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a da...
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The Cost Of Gun Violence On Black Life
Episode Date: September 15, 2025Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee's new memoir, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America, is part histo...
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Terry Gross On 50 Years Of Fresh Air (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso)
Episode Date: September 14, 2025This month marks 50 years of Terry Gross as the host of Fresh Air. What began in 1975 as a local experiment at WHYY in Philadelphia has since grown in...
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Best Of: Rob Reiner On 'Spinal Tap II' / Billy Strings
Episode Date: September 14, 2025Rob Reiner talks with Terry Gross about directing the new sequel to Spinal Tap, the mockumentary about a heavy metal band. He’ll also talk about his...
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Inside Netflix's 'Adolescence'
Episode Date: September 12, 2025The Netflix miniseries follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator and star Stephen Graham says he read about simila...
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NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner
Episode Date: September 11, 2025Veteran Air Force linguist Reality Winner was working at the NSA in 2017 when she leaked a classified document to the press about Russian election int...
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The Future Of Free And Fair Elections
Episode Date: September 10, 2025Before 2026's midterms, President Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, and change voting rules. Legal expert Richard Has...
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Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11
Episode Date: September 9, 2025Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap sparked a new genre of satire. Now, more than 40 years later, the band is back in a new sequel, Spinal T...
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Bluegrass Star Billy Strings
Episode Date: September 8, 2025The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist has one foot in traditional bluegrass and another in improvisational jam music. He has a new album...
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Best Of : Jane Fonda / Spike Lee
Episode Date: September 6, 2025At 87, Oscar-winning actor Jane Fonda is pouring her energy into activism. She’ll reflect on her decades-long career, and how she first began her fitn...
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Noah Wyle, Star Of 'The Pitt'
Episode Date: September 5, 2025After 11 seasons on ER, Noah Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years avoiding — actively avoiding — walking down what I th...
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How Does Pain Work? Dr. Sanjay Gupta Explains
Episode Date: September 4, 2025CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's new book examines the world of pain — why we feel it, and how we can treat it. He says distraction...
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RFK Jr.'s Impact On Americans' Health
Episode Date: September 3, 2025We look at the stormy tenure of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg discusses how RF...
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Jane Fonda Is Not Backing Down
Episode Date: September 2, 2025Earlier this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration during a SAG-AFTRA award acceptance speech. "This...
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Roots of Rock and R&B: Dion and Allen Toussaint
Episode Date: September 1, 2025All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. We listen back to a 2000 interview with for...
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Roots of R&B: Charles Brown & Ray Charles
Episode Date: August 30, 2025All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. We listen back to a 1989 interview with sin...
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Roots of R&B: 'Stand By Me'
Episode Date: August 29, 2025All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Soul singer Ben E. King began his career in...
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Roots of R&B: Johnny Otis & Etta James
Episode Date: August 27, 2025All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Singer, songwriter, producer and talent sco...