Mr. Showbiz: Murray Hill on Becoming What He Didn't See Murray Hill calls himself "Mr. Showbiz," and the label fits. He has the look of a 1970s Vegas lounge singer crossed with a Borscht Belt…
Terry Gross — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Terry Gross has appeared on 9 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Fresh Air. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
Episode appearances
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Steve Reich turns 90, and Fresh Air marks the occasion by revisiting a 1999 interview in which the composer walked Terry Gross through the key ideas and accidents that shaped his music. Reich is…
Rhiannon Giddens has spent her career doing something strange: making the banjo sound like what it actually is. On Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em, the instrument that opens the track is Giddens…
Fresh Air
Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones / Remembering singer Cassandra Wilson
September 18, 2026
About two decades after Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones died in 2002, the studio that employed him for 30 years shelved a completed feature film called Coyote vs. Acme as a tax write-off. The…
Tim Curry, the British actor who died Tuesday at age 80, was best known for playing the flamboyant extraterrestrial mad scientist Frank-N-Furter in the original stage and film versions of The…
“Every day, black children walk into buildings named after people who never wanted them to be there.” That line from Clint Smith’s poem captures what drove him to write How the Word Is Passed: the…
Leïla Slimani, who won France’s highest literary award, the Goncourt Prize, and was later asked by President Emmanuel Macron to serve as Minister of Culture (she declined), did not grow up in a…
A former nun on why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' life "Words are absolutely woven through the texture of your life because you are either chanting or reading or meditating on the Psalms,"…
James Burrows, who died June 19th at age 85, directed more than a thousand episodes of television comedy over five decades. But as Fresh Air’s TV critic David Bianculli explains in this…
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