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  • 45 minutes 6 seconds
    MLK, The Organizer & Radical Thinker
    NYT columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office. "Perhaps the juxtaposition of seeing Donald Trump preside over the official state memorialization of Martin Luther King will remind us of our responsibility to remembering King as he actually was ... as he was a philosopher, an organizer of the people," Cottom says.

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    20 January 2025, 8:00 am
  • 47 minutes 33 seconds
    Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.
    Writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a 1990 California wildfire. After being rendered homeless and sleeping on a friend's floor, he was told about a Benedictine monastery. His time spent in silence on retreat there changed him both as a person and as a writer. He spoke with Terry Gross about his new memoir about the experience, Aflame.

    Also, comic and former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. talks with Tonya Mosley about his new comedy special, Lonely Flowers.

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    18 January 2025, 8:00 am
  • 44 minutes 44 seconds
    The True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'
    Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and sexually abused. Dozens of unmarked graves have been discovered on the school grounds. "If there's one place like this, there are many," he says.

    Later, guest critic Martin Johnson reviews a new recording featuring two giants of jazz. And film critic Justin Chang reviews Mike Leigh's new film, Hard Truths.

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    17 January 2025, 5:52 pm
  • 44 minutes 37 seconds
    The Secret History Of The Rape Kit
    Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells the story of Marty Goddard, a community activist who worked with runaway teenagers in the 1970s.

    Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the Western miniseries American Primeval, now streaming on Netflix.

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    16 January 2025, 8:04 pm
  • 44 minutes 21 seconds
    How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence
    In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he also lived. In Aflame, he recounts the devastation of the fire — and the peace he found living in a Benedictine monastery.

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    15 January 2025, 8:32 pm
  • 44 minutes 33 seconds
    Can The U.S. Aquire Greenland? & Other Q's About Trump Foreign Policy
    In the past, Donald Trump talked about keeping America out of foreign conflicts — but lately he's talked about potentially using force or economic pressure to acquire Greenland, the Panama Canal, even Canada. We'll speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT national security correspondent David Sanger. He'll talk about how Trump might handle the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and Iran's growing nuclear threat.

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    14 January 2025, 8:47 pm
  • 45 minutes 27 seconds
    Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism
    A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," Roy Wood Jr. says. In his new Hulu special, Lonely Flowers, Wood riffs on how isolation has sent society spiraling. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about leaving The Daily Show, learning from other comics, and how an arrest pushed him to pursue stand-up.

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    13 January 2025, 7:43 pm
  • 48 minutes 2 seconds
    Best Of: Tilda Swinton / Adrien Brody
    Tilda Swinton stars as a woman with cancer who decides she wants to end her life in the new Pedro Almodóvar film The Room Next Door. She asks a friend to stay with her for her last weeks. She spoke with Terry Gross about the role and her own experience bearing witness to the deaths of loved ones.

    Also, we hear from award-winning actor Adrien Brody. He stars in the film The Brutalist as a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who seeks a fresh start in post-WWII America. Brody tells Tonya Mosley how drew from his mother and grandfather's experience as Hungarian immigrants for the role.

    Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths.

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    11 January 2025, 8:00 am
  • 46 minutes 39 seconds
    Joan Baez / Suze Rotolo / Al Kooper On Dylan
    A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan is in theaters. We're featuring interviews with three people depicted in the film: Suze Rotolo was his girlfriend and was photographed on his arm for the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. She told Terry about that photoshoot. Folk singer Joan Baez was already a star when she met Dylan. She took him on tour, but nobody knew who he was. She talks about some of those early shows. And Al Kooper was a session musician who played the organ on "Like a Rolling Stone."

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    10 January 2025, 4:53 pm
  • 44 minutes 55 seconds
    Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)
    The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns about how intertwined politics and religion had become. Carter died on Dec. 29 at age 100. Today is his funeral.

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    9 January 2025, 9:11 pm
  • 44 minutes 24 seconds
    Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death
    In Pedro Almodóvar's film The Room Next Door, Tilda Swinton plays a woman with late-stage cancer who wants to end her life. She asks a friend, played by Julianne Moore, to stay with her for her last month on Earth. Swinton's performance draws on her experiences supporting and bearing witness to loved ones at the end of their lives. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," she tells Terry Gross. "We're all going that way, and the sooner we accept and embrace that, then the ice melts and we're kind of informed of a kind of living, I think, that we wouldn't otherwise be." Swinton also talks about growing up in a military family, her sense of fashion, and being a "queer fish."

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    8 January 2025, 7:50 pm
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