Interviews

Baby elephants are a welcome sight in Zakouma National Park in Chad. Thanks to stepped-up enforcement, the park hasn't lost an elephant to poachers since 2012. Without the stress of poaching, the elephants started breeding again and more than 40 calves ha

Fresh Air Weekend: Elephant Poachers; 'Mistress America'; A Teenage 'Diary'

11:51am August 15, 2015

Journalist Bryan Christy talks about using GPS trackers to follow elephant poachers. Justin Chang reviews Mistress America. Phoebe Gloeckner and Marielle Heller discuss The Diary of a Teenage Girl.

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Cover art from Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Friday Night Lights' At 25; 'Dragonfish'; Dolphin Life

2:33pm August 11, 2015

Buzz Bissinger discusses his book about small-town high school football. Maureen Corrigan reviews Dragonfish, by Vu Tran. Susan Casey describes the life of dolphins and new threats the animals face.

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Prince onstage during the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in February.

Prince Compares Record Contracts To Slavery In Rare Meeting With Media

7:14am August 10, 2015

by Eric Deggans

Music icon Prince is worried about the future of the music business for artists, and his top priority can be summed up in one word: freedom.

White God is about a dog who is separated from his owner (Zsófia Psotta) when her father forces her to give him up. Teresa Ann Miller worked as a trainer for the Hungarian film.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Call Me Lucky'; 'The End of the Tour'; Training Dogs For Film

8:12am August 07, 2015

Call Me Lucky, directed by comic Bobcat Goldthwait, profiles his mentor Barry Crimmins. David Edelstein reviews The End of the Tour. Teresa Ann Miller talks about training the dog leads in White God

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Arts

Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It

1:59pm July 31, 2015

As host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart is a funny man with a serious message. Originally broadcast July 22, 2005.

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Newspaper clippings of young Donnie Dunagan from the early '40s.

Arts

Maj. Bambi: Meet The Marine Who Was Disney's Famous Fawn

12:23pm July 31, 2015

by NPR Staff

A gritty Marine, Donnie Dunagan fought in Vietnam, earned decorations for his service and retired as a major. But all his life, there was one thing he could never escape: He was the voice of Bambi.

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Arts

First Day Of Camp

12:24am July 30, 2015

Wet Hot American Summer's David Wain and David Hyde Pierce join us for a conversation, before Ken Marino, Judah Friedlander, A.D. Miles, and Zak Orth play a game about classic '80s toy commercials.

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Before a Lakers game this season, Adrián García Márquez and the rest of the TWC Deportes crew tapes a pre-game intro.

Sports

Fake It Till You Make It, Then Come Clean: A Sportscaster's Big Break

9:55pm July 25, 2015

by Becky Sullivan

How do you become a sportscaster when you've never done it before? Adrián García Márquez, now La Voz De Los Lakers, faked a demo tape with the help of a Sega console and FIFA '95.

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Jake Gyllenhaal plays boxer Billy Hope in Southpaw.

Fresh Air Weekend: Jake Gyllenhaal; Making A Comedy About LA's Sex Workers

12:03pm July 25, 2015

"I don't like getting hit, but it was important for the movie," Gyllenhaal says of his role as a boxer in Southpaw. Director Sean Baker and actress Mya Taylor talk about their film, Tangerine.

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Books
Arts

'Fresh Air' Remembers 'Billy Bathgate' Author E. L. Doctorow

9:12pm July 24, 2015

Doctorow, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was the author of dozens of novels, many of which combined fictional characters and real people in a historical context. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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