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A girl sits in front of a bakery in the crowd with Afghan women waiting to receive bread in Kabul on Jan. 31, 2022.

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  • Asia

Undercover journalist in Afghanistan finds Taliban are abducting, imprisoning women

Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover.

August 04, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Movie Interviews

Denzel Washington: The Fresh Air interview

Washington was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2008, about the film The Great Debaters, which he directed and starred in.

July 08, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson star in the film, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

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  • Movies

Emma Thompson on her new film — and the idea the female orgasm has to be performative

In her new film, Thompson portrays a widower who reckons with her own sexual discovery in an experience she calls "irresistibly delicious."

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
Jeremiah Zagar speaks onstage during Netflix's <em>Hustle</em> Philadelphia special screening on June 7 in Philadelphia.

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  • Movie Interviews

'Hustle' is Jeremiah Zagar's love letter to basketball fans in Philadelphia

Many of the actors who star alongside Adam Sandler in the new basketball movie Hustle are real NBA athletes. NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson talks with director Jeremiah Zagar about the film.

June 12, 2022
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  • Cheryl W. Thompson
Jeremiah Zagar speaks onstage during Netflix's <em>Hustle</em> Philadelphia special screening on June 7 in Philadelphia.

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  • Movie Interviews

'Hustle' is Jeremiah Zagar's love letter to basketball fans in Philadelphia

Many of the actors who star alongside Adam Sandler in the new basketball movie Hustle are real NBA athletes. NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson talks with director Jeremiah Zagar about the film.

June 12, 2022
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  • Cheryl W. Thompson
GPB News NPR

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  • Performing Arts

Julie Andrews says she's not the squeaky clean lady you might expect

The Sound of Music star will soon be honored with the AFI's Life Achievement Award. In 2008 and 2019, she spoke to Fresh Air about growing up during WWII and performing in her parents' vaudeville.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Movie Interviews

Remembering 'Goodfellas' actor Ray Liotta

Liotta, who died May 26, started out playing a nice guy on a soap opera. Then came his tough-guy roles in Something Wild and Goodfellas. He was also in Field of Dreams. Originally broadcast in 2016.

June 03, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Alexander Skarsgård is on a quest to avenge his father's murder in <em>The Northman.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Alexander Skarsgård lost his voice — and found catharsis — as a Viking berserker

The Swedish actor describes himself as "quite a mellow guy." Playing a Viking warrior in the film The Northman gave Skarsgård a chance to tap into his animalistic nature.

May 04, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Filmmaker and author John Waters at his home in Baltimore. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his landmark film, <em>Pink Flamingos, </em>and he's releasing his first novel, <em>Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance</em>.

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  • Books

A lot of material from this John Waters interview couldn't be published

It's been 50 years since the famed director released the movie Pink Flamingos. And as much as the world's changed since then, his first-ever novel shows that his propensity for bad taste ...hasn't.

April 30, 2022
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  • Andrew Limbong
Michelle Yeoh plays a Chinese American immigrant who explores the paths not taken in <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Actor Michelle Yeoh wants to change the way we think of superheroes

When Yeoh first read the script for Everything Everywhere All at Once, she gave a big sigh of relief: Finally, here was a film that put a middle-aged mother in the role of action hero.

April 25, 2022
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Rupert Murdoch speaks in San Francisco in 2011. Murdoch's media empire has included News Corp, Fox News, Fox Sports, 21st Century Fox, HarperCollins,<em> The New York Post</em> and <em>The</em> <em>Wall Street Journal.</em>

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  • Media

In the Murdoch family succession battle, Fox News and democracy hang in the balance

The new CNN+ docuseries The Murdochs looks inside the Fox media empire and the family's behind-the-scenes in-fighting. Journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama rivals HBO's Succession.

April 21, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Michelle Yeoh (center) plays Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant who owns a failing laundromat. She protects her daughter Joy (left), played by Stephanie Hsu, and her husband Waymond (right), played by Ke Huy Quan.

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  • Movie Interviews

Michelle Yeoh has a new leading role and a new motto: No more turning the other cheek

Michelle Yeoh has been a star for decades, but she finally gets her turn at a lead role in Hollywood, playing failing laundromat owner Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

April 10, 2022
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 1 more
Tony Hawk flies through the air in a new documentary, <em>Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off</em>.

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  • Movie Interviews

Tony Hawk plans to keep skateboarding 'Until the Wheels Fall Off'

Hawk elevated his sport. But in middle age, it's become hard on his body. NPR spoke with the skateboarding icon about his new documentary, Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Michael Radcliffe
A villager brings a yak into the classroom so the new teacher will understand how important the animals are to the village of nomadic yak herders. Yak dung is important too — used to warm homes.

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  • Movies

The inspirational story of Bhutan's first Oscar nod: 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom'

The movie is up for best international feature. It's about an urban teacher who's ticked off about being sent to work in a remote village with no electricity. Enlightenment ensues!

March 27, 2022
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Amin's character in the animated documentary <em>Flee</em>.

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  • Movie Interviews

'Flee' creators on being a refugee: It's not an identity, it's a circumstance of life

The film Flee opens with a question: "What does the word 'home' mean to you?" For Amin Nawabi, the answer is complicated.

March 21, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Ayen Bior,
  • and 2 more
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