Fresh Air Weekend: Tilda Swinton; Adrien Brody
Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in The Room Next Door. Justin Chang reviews Hard Truths. Brody drew on his family's immigration story for his role in The Brutalist.
Donna Summer: The 'Fresh Air' interview
Summer, who died in 2012, is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Love to Love You. In 2003, she spoke to Fresh Air about the origins of the hit song from which the documentary takes its name.
Remembering Chris Strachwitz, the founder of Arhoolie Records
Strachwitz, who died May 5, devoted his life to tracking down regional musicians — and recording them in their homes, front porches and beer joints. Originally broadcast in 1990.
Arturo O'Farrill puts piano in the foreground on 'Legacies'
Three generations of O'Farrills are represented on this new album, reminding us what tradition is at heart: our ongoing conversation with those who came before us, and those who come after.
A historian details how a secretive, extremist group radicalized the American right
Matthew Dallek says the John Birch Society, which was active from the late '50s through the early '70s, propelled today's extremist takeover of the American right. His new book is Birchers.
Move over Studs Terkel: Obama's on the job in Netflix's modern take on 'Working'
Hosted by the former president, this documentary series is a modern take on Terkel's influential 1974 book of interviews, cataloging the concerns of people on all levels of the economic scale.
