Remembering Grateful Dead Founding Member Bob Weir
We remember Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, who died last week at 78. The guitarist spoke with Fresh Air Executive Producer Sam Briger in 2016 about working on a ranch, learning to rid...
16 Jan 46min
Novelist Julian Barnes Faces Mortality Without Fear
The Man Booker Prize-winning writer says his new book, ‘Departure(s),’ will be his last. He spoke with Terry Gross about blending genres, moving through grief after his wife died, and the fallibility ...
15 Jan 43min
Marco Rubio’s Shift From Trump Critic To Champion
Marco Rubio once called Trump a "con artist." He’s now among his most loyal defenders. New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins describes Secretary of State Rubio's character, political transformation a...
14 Jan 44min
Jodie Foster
Foster was just 12 years old when she starred in Scorsese’s 1976 film ‘Taxi Driver.’ "What luck to have been part of that, our golden age of cinema in the '70s," she says. She talks with Terry Gross a...
13 Jan 44min
‘The God of the Woods’ Author Liz Moore
Moore says writing is mostly labor, but "2% of the time, usually at the very beginning of a book and the very end of a book, it feels like flying." She's also the author of ‘Long Bright River,’ which ...
12 Jan 45min
Best Of: Will Arnett / ‘Song Sung Blue’ Director Craig Brewer
Will Arnett stars in the new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ about a man going through a divorce, who finds himself onstage doing stand-up. He spoke with Terry Gross about trying out stand-up under a fake na...
10 Jan 49min
Neil Diamond / Noah Wyle On ‘The Pitt’
The new film ‘Song Sung Blue’ is about a Neil Diamond tribute band and stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. Before Diamond began recording his own hits like “Solitary Man,” “Cherry, Cherry,” “America,”...
9 Jan 46min
Tessa Thompson
Thompson is nominated for a Golden Globe for her starring role in ‘Hedda.’ She spoke with co-host Tonya Mosley about her collaboration with director Nia DaCosta, navigating her biracial identity, and ...
8 Jan 44min
