Terry Gross

Host, Fresh Air

Terry Gross appears in the following:

Journalist Explains John Bolton's Push For 'Aggressive Use' Of American Power

Thursday, May 02, 2019

New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins says President Trump's current national security adviser is a hawk who sees America as "a colossus operating anywhere it wants."

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How Drug Companies Helped Shape A Shifting, Biological View Of Mental Illness

Thursday, May 02, 2019

Mind Fixers, by historian Anne Harrington, takes a hard look at the ways the marketing of a new pill to treat a mental disorder can change the way the condition is defined and treated.

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'Moneyland' Reveals How Oligarchs, Kleptocrats And Crooks Stash Fortunes

Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Journalist Oliver Bullough runs kleptocracy tours in London, in which he points out mansions bought by corrupt foreign leaders and oligarchs. Moneyland describes their secretive transnational world.

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David Carr's Daughter On The 'Grand Caper' Of Life, And The Grief Of Loss

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Erin Lee Carr says her father's death "is the most profound loss I will ever experience." Carr's new memoir about family, addiction, mentorship and memory is called All That You Leave Behind.

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Patricia Arquette Explores The 'Toxic Codependency' Of Munchausen By Proxy

Monday, April 29, 2019

Arquette plays a Missouri woman who falsely convinced the world that her child was seriously ill, in the Hulu series The Act. She says it was "very weird" getting into the character's head.

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Mueller Report Shows How Witnesses, Messaging Apps Stymied Investigation

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Washington Post investigative reporter Rosalind Helderman broke some of the big stories on the Trump team's ties to Russia. She notes what's new in the report and the questions left unanswered.

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'Mind Fixers' Documents The 'Troubled Search' For Mental Illness Medication

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Anne Harrington chronicles the search for a biological understanding of mental illness. She believes the revolution in medication has left behind a legacy of over-diagnosis and over-medication.

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Glenda Jackson On Playing King Lear: Gender Barriers 'Crack' With Age

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

The 82-year-old British actor is currently playing Shakespeare's famed tragic figure on Broadway. "Doors have opened for women that were firmly locked many decades ago," she says.

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'Fresh Air' Celebrates Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin

Friday, April 19, 2019

The Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded Franklin, who died in 2018, with a special citation for her "indelible contribution" to American music and culture. Originally broadcast in 1999.

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Ray Romano On Fame, And Finding His Bearings After 'Raymond' Wrapped

Friday, April 12, 2019

Ray Romano's comedy special, Right Here, Around the Corner, is now streaming on Netflix. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2016 about the story behind the title of his hit sit-com Everybody Loves Raymond.

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Remembering Oscar-Nominated Character Actor Seymour Cassel

Friday, April 12, 2019

Cassel, who died April 7, performed as a child during matinees of his mom's burlesque shows and went on to appear in movies directed by John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson. Originally broadcast in 2006.

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'I Never Had A Plan B': Henry Winkler On His Career, From The Fonz To 'Barry'

Thursday, April 11, 2019

The actor talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about struggling with typecasting after Happy Days, his family's immigration story and about how he found out in his 30s that he had dyslexia.

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'Charged' Explains How Prosecutors And Plea Bargains Drive Mass Incarceration

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Close to 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. in 2016. Author Emily Bazelon says prosecutors, rather than judges, are responsible for many of the prison sentences defendants receive.

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Reporters Say Members Of Congress Are 'Obsessed' With Getting Re-Elected

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, who cover Congress for Politico, discuss the power dynamics of Capitol Hill during the Trump Presidency. Their new book is The Hill To Die On.

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'Losing Earth' Explores How Oil Industry Played Politics With The Planet's Fate

Monday, April 08, 2019

Journalist Nathaniel Rich says the oil industry helped create a partisan debate around climate change in the 1980s by paying scientists to write op-eds questioning climate science.

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From The 'Fresh Air' Archives: Dancer Gwen Verdon

Friday, April 05, 2019

Verdon, who died in 2000, spoke to Terry Gross in 1993 about her work with and marriage to choreographer Bob Fosse. The new FX series Fosse/Verdon revisits the complexities of their partnership.

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Remembering Choreographer And Dancer Merce Cunningham

Friday, April 05, 2019

Cunningham, who died in 2009, would have been 100 on April 16. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1985 about his unconventional approach to dance, in which music and dance are performed independently.

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For Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Making Music Is 'Like A Religious Call'

Thursday, April 04, 2019

Nézet-Séguin uses every part of his body when he conducts — including his eyes, eyebrows, shoulders and feet. He's the music director at New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Points To Reconstruction As The Genesis Of White Supremacy

Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Gates says white supremacy was born in the years after the Civil War, as white Southerners looked for ways to roll back the newly acquired rights of African-Americans. His new book is Stony the Road.

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Mexican-American Author Finds Inspiration In Family, Tragedy And Trump

Friday, March 29, 2019

Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels borrows from the story of his older brother, who died of cancer. He told Fresh Air in 2018 that the book went through a rewrite after the 2016 election.

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