Local News Update - 6:04pm
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.
Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR.
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By age 5, Keaton was a star in his family's vaudeville act; he went on to star in and direct silent films, performing jaw-dropping stunts. Slate film critic Dana Stevens profiles Keaton in a new book.
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!["[The West is] about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine," Cumberbatch says. He plays a cattle rancher in Jane Campion's film, <em>The Power of the Dog. </em>](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/00d528f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4716x2627+0+455/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2022%2F01%2F21%2Ftpotd_ks_0001-ea777bfc602a0737d76773f29307046a37dd0c34.jpg)
Cumberbatch digs into toxic masculinity in The Power of the Dog. Maureen Corrigan reviews To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara. Cox says he can't defend his Succession character, but he can relate to him. -
Set in New York City the early 1880s, this ten-part costume drama is basically an American Downtown Abbey, complete with rich and poor, power brokers and household workers.
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Spector, who died Jan. 12, was part of the 1960s girl group that gave us "Be My Baby." She left the music business for some years but returned to recording in the 1970s. Originally broadcast in 1988.
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The former creative director at Vogue magazine and larger-than-life fashion influencer died Jan. 18. Talley spoke to Fresh Air in 2018 about growing up in Durham, N.C., and discovering fashion.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff served two tours in Afghanistan, and is now a New York Times reporter. He recently interviewed a high-level Taliban commander about a battle they had both been engaged in.
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!["[The West is] about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine," Cumberbatch says. He plays a cattle rancher in Jane Campion's film, <em>The Power of the Dog. </em>](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f302bd6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5968x3325+0+16/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2022%2F01%2F19%2Ftpotd_ks_0001_wide-a60218e4a14a5eef04a8abdc55c5cde8db0d6772.jpg)
The British actor says the American West is "about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine." Cumberbatch got into his role for The Power of the Dog by spending time with real ranchers. -
Cox says the ruthless business tycoon he plays HBO's Succession is one of the most extraordinary roles he's ever taken: "He is a misanthrope [who] is very disappointed with the human experiment." -
While working for the Department of Justice, Coates says she saw voter rolls being purged and instances where polling places were moved to known Klan locations. Her new memoir is Just Pursuit. -
Hanya Yanagihara's much anticipated 700-page novel is a deliberately difficult work, made of up dazzling moments that tend lose their luster when pressed together.
!["[The West is] about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine," Cumberbatch says. He plays a cattle rancher in Jane Campion's film, <em>The Power of the Dog. </em>](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b6e4e16/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4716x2627+0+455/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2022%2F01%2F21%2Ftpotd_ks_0001-ea777bfc602a0737d76773f29307046a37dd0c34.jpg)
!["[The West is] about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine," Cumberbatch says. He plays a cattle rancher in Jane Campion's film, <em>The Power of the Dog. </em>](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c7ca1b0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5968x3325+0+16/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2022%2F01%2F19%2Ftpotd_ks_0001_wide-a60218e4a14a5eef04a8abdc55c5cde8db0d6772.jpg)
