Fresh Air on WPRL
Weekdays at 11:00am
Opening the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics.
-
Somebody Somewhere actor Hill charts his own course in Showbiz! Maureen Corrigan reviews The Two Saddest Kitchen. Douglas reflects on his early life and Hollywood career in One Helluva Ride.
-
Cristian Mungiu's latest film takes place in a small Norwegian town, where a recently arrived couple stands accused of abusing their children — but in Fjord, the truth is never quite clear.
-
Prine died in 2020 from complications of COVID-19. To mark what would have been his 80th birthday, we listen to an interview from 2018 in which he talked about the surgeries that altered his voice.
-
Ryan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Trump's crosshairs. Her new book is Notes on a Blacklash.
-
CBS' new drama series centers on a small legal firm in Silicon Valley that was created to do battle with the billionaire tech-company behemoths. Cupertino is funny, clever and amazingly current.
-
The New York Times reporter Greg Jaffe says Hegseth has disproportionately blocked promotions of Black and women senior officers, and he's also been purging the military of transgender people.
-
Hill co-starred in HBO's Somebody Somewhere and has hosted drag king shows and queer cabarets. "This is my mantra … if you don't see yourself represented, go out and represent yourself," he says.
-
John Steinbeck's 1952 epic was first adapted to film in 1955 by director Elia Kazan. Now, Kazan's granddaughter Zoe has directed a new Netflix miniseries, starring Florence Pugh.
-
Douglas grew up in the shadow of his famous father, Kirk, before establishing himself as an Oscar-winning actor and producer. In One Helluva Ride, he reflects on his early life and Hollywood career.
-
MacLachlan says he was David Lynch's "submersible" into dark places. Maureen Corrigan reviews American Hagwon, by Min Jin Lee. Wired's Andy Greenberg explains a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia.