Terry Gross

Host, Fresh Air

Terry Gross appears in the following:

'Miseducation Of Cameron Post' Creators Take Aim At Gay Conversion Therapy

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Desiree Akhavan's new film, based on Emily Danforth's 2012 young adult novel, centers on a high school girl who's sent to a Christian conversion center after she's caught kissing her girlfriend.

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Food Writer Becomes A Butcher To Better Understand The Value Of Meat

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Camas Davis wanted to learn about conscientious farming, slaughtering and eating, so she moved to France and became an apprentice at a small, family-run slaughterhouse. Her memoir is Killing it.

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Remembering Adrian Cronauer, The DJ Who Inspired 'Good Morning Vietnam'

Monday, July 23, 2018

Cronauer, who died last week, hosted an armed forces radio show in Saigon during the Vietnam War and later was the subject of a film starring comic Robin Williams. Originally broadcast in 1988.

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Growing Up Black, Gay And Catholic In Texas, Memoirist Put His Faith In Beyoncé

Monday, July 23, 2018

Michael Arceneaux's new book, I Can't Date Jesus, is a collection of essays about his early years. Beyoncé, he says, taught him a valuable lesson: "Just be yourself and be very good at what you do."

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Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State'

Friday, July 20, 2018

"Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," says sleep scientist Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep. Originally broadcast Oct. 17, 2017.

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Reporter Shows The Links Between The Men Behind Brexit And The Trump Campaign

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Carole Cadwalladr's investigation into Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit led her to Russian connections and the Trump campaign. She says British investigators are working "closely with the FBI."

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Director Bo Burnham On Growing Up With Anxiety — And An Audience

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The former YouTube star explores adolescence in the age of social media in his film Eighth Grade. "This awful D-list celebrity pressure I had experienced onstage has now been democratized," he says.

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Punk Legend And Memoirist Viv Albertine On A Lifetime Of Fighting The Patriarchy

Monday, July 16, 2018

"What we conjured up ... was that we weren't going to try and be this constructed ideal of femininity," Albertine says of her band's approach. She recently released a memoir, To Throw Away Unopened.

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'Fresh Air' Conversations With The Late Cartoonist John Callahan

Friday, July 13, 2018

Callahan was a paraplegic, recovered alcoholic who poked fun at people like himself. He died in 2010; the film Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is based his life. First broadcast in '89 and '91.

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Remembering 1950s Hollywood Heartthrob Tab Hunter

Friday, July 13, 2018

Hunter, who died Sunday, made more than 50 films, including Damn Yankees, Battle Cry and That Kind of Woman, before coming out as gay later in life. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2005.

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Journalist Sees 'Almost No Daylight' Between Fox News And White House Agendas

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman says the president and Fox News host Sean Hannity "speak almost daily, after Hannity's show, sometimes before, and sometimes for up to an hour a day."

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Once Militantly Anti-Abortion, Evangelical Minister Now Lives 'With Regret'

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

After decades working to block access to clinics, the Rev. Rob Schenck says he had a change of heart and sees abortion as an issue that should be resolved by "an individual and his or her conscience."

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The Science — And Environmental Hazards — Behind Fish Oil Supplements

Monday, July 09, 2018

Author Paul Greenberg says the harvesting of tiny fish for omega-3 supplements is having a ripple effect, leading to less healthy and bountiful oceans. His new book is The Omega Principle.

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Fresh Air Weekend: Rapper-Turned-Director Boots Riley; The Flint, Mich., Water Crisis

Saturday, July 07, 2018

Riley mines his experiences as a telemarketer in Sorry To Bother You. David Bianculli review's HBO's Sharper Things. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha raised the alarm about lead in the water in Flint, Mich.

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How The 'Battling' Kellogg Brothers Revolutionized American Breakfast

Friday, July 06, 2018

Medical historian Howard Markel chronicles the contentious relationship between the brothers who created of Corn Flakes and other mass-produced boxed cereals. Originally broadcast Aug. 10, 2017.

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Supreme Court Reporter: 'The Politics Of The First Amendment Have Completely Flipped'

Thursday, July 05, 2018

New York Times journalist Adam Liptak says the court's conservative justices have increasingly based their decisions on the foundation of free speech — including a case that dealt a blow to unions.

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'Fresh Air' Celebrates July 4 With The Late Flat-Picking Guitar Player Doc Watson

Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Watson, who died in 2012, was a pioneering bluegrass, country and folk guitarist and singer who changed the way people thought about mountain music. Originally broadcast in 1988 and 1989.

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Former Ambassador To Russia Looks Ahead To Trump's Summit With Putin

Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Michael McFaul, who sat in on meetings between Putin and Obama, warns that the Russian president "doesn't meet just for the sake of a meeting; he seeks to advance Russian interests."

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Boots Riley Mines His Experiences As A Telemarketer In 'Sorry To Bother You'

Monday, July 02, 2018

The social satire takes aim at corporations that underpay and exploit workers. This is Riley's first film — he has a long career as a rapper — and his band, The Coup, plays on the film's soundtrack.

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Remembering Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall

Friday, June 29, 2018

Hall, who died on Saturday, wrote about farm work and his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, in the 1993 memoir Life Work. He and Kenyon spoke to Fresh Air in 1996, and Hall was interviewed again in '02 and '12.

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