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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network.

Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.

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Spacey And Fincher Make A 'House Of Cards'

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Kevin Spacey is the star and a producer of the new Netflix series House of Cards, on which David Fincher is a co-producer.

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Originally published on Thu January 31, 2013 11:18 am

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Ten months on the road playing Richard III in theaters around the world is a good way to prep for playing a ruthlessly ambitious politician and Washington insider — according to Kevin Spacey, at least.

Just before he took the role of Francis "Frank" Underwood, the fictional majority whip of the House of Representatives who hatches a plan to take down the president in the new Netflix original series House of Cards, Spacey spent nearly a year playing Shakespeare's murderously ambitious king.

11:51 am

Wed January 30, 2013

Paloma Faith's 'Fall To Grace' Is A Keeper

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Singer-songwriter and actress Paloma Faith's new album is titled Fall to Grace.

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By Ken Tucker

Originally published on Wed January 30, 2013 3:22 pm

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In culling through albums released late last year that I still play with pleasure, Paloma Faith's Fall to Grace was a real keeper. In contrast to my joy, Faith was singing about her agony: her broken heart, her wracked sobs about ruined affairs, her choked goodbyes to lovers who'd left her. She made all this sound tremendously intense and exciting. Not for nothing did she title her previous album Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?

11:38 am

Wed January 30, 2013

'House Of Cards' Is Built To Last

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Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright star in the new Netflix original series House of Cards, which premieres Feb. 1.

By David Bianculli

Originally published on Thu January 31, 2013 8:06 am

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This week brings two new high-profile drama series. One is The Americans, premiering Jan. 30 on the FX network; it's about sleeper KGB agents living in the U.S. during the Reagan era. The other is House of Cards, a new series premiering Feb. 1.

11:18 am

Wed January 30, 2013

William H. Macy Is 'Shameless' On Showtime

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In Shameless, William H. Macy is the dysfunctional father of six.

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Originally published on Wed January 30, 2013 1:05 pm

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William H. Macy is the first to admit that he has played his fair share of losers. His latest role, as the alcoholic, narcissist Frank Gallagher — the single dad of a dysfunctional six-kid family — on the Showtime series Shameless, adds to the list of hapless characters Macy has portrayed on screen and stage.

2:05 pm

Tue January 29, 2013

'The Insurgents': Petraeus And A New Kind Of War

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Gen. David Petraeus is the subject of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, a new book by Fred Kaplan.

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Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate. A former reporter for the Boston Globe, he was a co-recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1983.

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In a new book, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, journalist and author Fred Kaplan tackles the career of David H. Petraeus and follows the four-star general from Bosnia to his commands in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Central to the story are ideas of counterinsurgency. Kaplan says that while counterinsurgency is not a new kind of warfare, it's a kind of war that Americans do not like to fight.

12:54 pm

Mon January 28, 2013

'Anything That Moves': Civilians And The Vietnam War

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Visitors take in a re-created scene at the massacre museum at Vietnam's My Lai village. Researcher Nick Turse says atrocities of all kinds were more common in the Vietnam War than most Americans believe.

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Nick Turse is the author of Kill Anything That Moves, about the Vietnam War.

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Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 3:06 pm

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On March 16, 1968, between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were gunned down by members of the U.S. Army in what became known as the My Lai Massacre.

The U.S. government has maintained that atrocities like this were isolated incidents in the conflict. Nick Turse says otherwise. In his new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Turse argues that the intentional killing of civilians was quite common in a war that claimed 2 million civilian lives, with 5.3 million civilians wounded and 11 million refugees.

12:54 pm

Mon January 28, 2013

Jane Austen's 'Pride And Prejudice' At 200

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English novelist Jane Austen, shown here in an original family portrait, was born in December 1775.

By Maureen Corrigan

Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 5:38 pm

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My favorite item from the growing mountain of Pride and Prejudice bicentennial trivia comes courtesy of an article in something called Regency World Magazine, which is going gaga over the anniversary. The article, "Albert Goes Ape for Austen," describes how a 200-pound orangutan named Albert, living in the Gdansk Zoo in Poland, insists on having 50 pages a night of Pride and Prejudice read to him at bedtime by his keeper or else he refuses to go to sleep.

10:37 am

Mon January 28, 2013

Remembering Journalist Stanley Karnow

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Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 2:22 pm

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DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and historian Stanley Karnow, whose best-selling book "Vietnam: A History," was the basis of an acclaimed public television documentary series, died Sunday at the age of 87. His work as a foreign correspondent was centered in southeast Asia, where he spent more than three decades, starting in 1959 when he began his reporting from Vietnam.

8:03 am

Sat January 26, 2013

Fresh Air Weekend: Scientology And Jimmy Kimmel

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Comedian Jimmy Kimmel interviews Mel Brooks on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 10:41 am

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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

'Going Clear': A New Book Delves Into Scientology: Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief looks at the world of the controversial church and the life of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986.

11:14 am

Fri January 25, 2013

Tracy Morgan: '30 Rock' Let Him Be Himself

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On on 30 Rock episode, Jon Hamm and Tracy Morgan appeared together in a sketch about racial stereotyping.

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This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 22, 2009.

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