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Best Of: 'Succession' Creator Jesse Armstrong / Actor Elliot Page

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From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today we talk about HBO's succession and its finale with a series creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong who wrote the finale. In the past he's been reluctant to reveal much about creating the characters and plotlines, but not that the series is over,...

Remembering '60s Pop Songwriter Cynthia Weil

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. Cynthia Wile, part of the songwriting team with her husband, Barry Mann, died last week at the age of 82. Wile and Mann's songs were recorded by the drifters and the righteous brothers and many others. Here's a sampling. They say the neon lights are bright all the way. All the way....

Parkland Survivor & March For Our Lives Co-Founder David Hogg

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Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley and my guest today is gun control activist David Hogg. The spring hog graduated from Harvard University fiv...

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tonya Mosley. Writing a book never felt quite right for Academy Award-nominated actor and producer Elliott Page, although he'd been asked to write one on more than one occasion. The problem was, he says, is that he could never sit still long enough to complete the task. His brain consumed by his...

The SCOTUS Conservative 'Supermajority'

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies. Political power in the United States is in some respects widely diffused. Among the two houses of Congress, the President and countless federal agencies, and hundreds of state and local governments across the country. But my guest, Michael Waldman, says the actions of a tiny handful...

'Succession' Creator Jesse Armstrong & Exec. Producer Frank Rich

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This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross. The fabulous HBO series' succession is over, but we're just about to begin our conversation with its creator, Jesse Armstrong, who wrote a majority of the episodes including the series finale. Also with us is Frank Rich, an executive producer of the series who was instrumental in ge...

Best Of: Clarence Thomas' Rise To Power / The Rise In Allergies

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From WHY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Dave Davies. Today the inside story of Clarence Thomas' path to power. As controversy swirls around revelations of gifts to Thomas, we'll speak with award-winning filmmaker Michael Kirk, director and producer of the frontline documentary Clarence and Jenny Thoma...

MMA Fighting, Memory Loss and Identity

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies. Imagine opening your car door one day and being greeted by the stench of rotting groceries, including raw chicken and vegetables that were left in the backseat overnight in sweltering weather. That happens in the opening pages of the novel by our guest, John Virtua. The main charact...

Best Of: Joel Edgerton / Samantha Irby

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From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, actor Joel Edgerton, he stars in Paul Schrader's new movie, Master Gardener, as a horticulturalist with a secret past as a white nationalist. He played Anakin Skywalker's half-brother Owen Lars in Star Wars prequels and the Disney Plus series Ob...

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This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. and Cooley in For Terry Gross. Even many people who prided themselves on hating disco loved one of its biggest hitmakers, Donna Summer. I sit in here eating my horn, I'm waiting, waking up some love of two cows. Starved by the thousand numbers, ladies, almost drank a phone of the wine....

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