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Considered the father of Afrobeat, Nigerian musician Fela Kuti used his music in the 1970s to combat colonial values and brutal dictatorship. Former Radiolab host Jad Abumrad tells his story…
This week: Mike and Ian talk with an Olympic Ice Master, help a listener who keeps meeting people with their same name, and get to the bottom of a mysterious survey glitch.
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Model railroaders convene each year to celebrate their hobby. But this year they're wondering about the impact of tariffs on the foreign companies that make a lot of the products they collec…
This week, we're joined by Mychal Threets, the world's most popular librarian, who talks about Library Joy and rebooting Reading Rainbow. Plus, panelists Tom Bodett, Josh Gondelman, and Tig …
Julia Loktev's acclaimed documentary, 'My Undesirable Friends,' follows young Russian journalists in the months before and after Putin's invasion of Ukraine " and the impossible choices they…
The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new " instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia.
Mike and Ian are back, just in time for the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan/Cortina. Olympians and Starfleet Captains share how to carry the torch, fly through the air,…
After President Trump announced plans for a "Complete Rebuilding" of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., what exactly did he mean, and what does it mean for the arts?
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in 'Blue Moon.' He's nominated for an Oscar for his p…
For decades, students at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier have been paying to bomb onstage. The goal isn't laughs " it's learning how to take the humiliation and keep going.
"Wicked" director Jon M. Chu talks Elphaba-branded Swiffers and panelists Negin Farsad, Peter Grosz, and Annie Rauwerda preview "Melania: A Documentary"Learn more about sponsor message choic…
Liz Moore's bestselling book, 'Long Bright River,' was set in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where she'd worked on a photo essay. "My own family has a long history of addiction. I was …
When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic grandmother even had him exorcised because of…
The departures include Kevin Couch, who was announced as the Kennedy Center's senior vice president of artistic planning less than two weeks ago.
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When writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths married Salman Rushdie in 2021, she expected her wedding day to be joyful. But the joy was invaded by tragedy, when she got the news her best friend ha…
He's the subject of a new two-part HBO documentary by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio called 'Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!' It looks at his origins in Brooklyn, his service in WWII,…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright has written a debut novel that asks a provocative question: What if a woman claimed the right to a spiritual quest like men have done for centuries in l…
The Martha Graham Dance Company is just the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year.
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Jodie Foster has been acting since she was 3. At 12 she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver.' This year marks the 50th anniversary of that film. Foster spoke w…
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, learn…
Georgetown is moving Let Freedom Ring, its annual event celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the historic Howard Theatre in order to save money, the university said.
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 Ter…
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 Rive…
