Interviews

Al Michaels will announce the Super Bowl game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots on Feb. 1.

Sports
Arts

Broadcaster Al Michaels Gets Ready To Provide 'Lyrics' For The Super Bowl

3:28pm January 22, 2015

Michaels will anchor the Feb. 1 game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. He tells Fresh Air about falling in love with sports and the hardest sport to announce.

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Actor, playwright and composer Noel Coward rehearses for a show in 1951. A rare recording of Coward introducing his play Peace in Our Time is just one of the millions of sounds and recordings the British Library is looking to preserve.

From Wax Cylinders To Records, Saving The Sounds Of History

2:27pm January 22, 2015

by NPR Staff

Many of the items in The British Library's vast collection of recorded sound are in danger of disappearing. Some just physically won't last much longer; others are stored in long-dead formats.

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World News

How One Family Controls Latin America's Legal Abortions

8:28pm January 19, 2015

One family is at the center of Colombia's first legal abortion clinic. NPR's Arun Rath talks to Joshua Lang about his feature story on the family in California Sunday magazine.

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On Broad City, Abbi Jacobson (left) and Ilana Glazer play two single, 20-somethings living in New York City with dead-end jobs. They spend a lot of time hanging out, smoking weed and making each other laugh.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Boyhood' Stars, 'Broad City' Co-Creators, A Review Of Ty Segall

11:29am January 17, 2015

Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke talk about filming Boyhood; Broad City stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer discuss their Comedy Central show; Ken Tucker reviews Segall's new album.

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At age 16, Maajid Nawaz joined the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. But after four years in prison, he decided to leave the group. He co-founded the think tank Quilliam, which is dedicated to countering extremist beliefs, and he's now running for Parliament

How Orwell's 'Animal Farm' Led A Radical Muslim To Moderation

7:00pm January 15, 2015

When Maajid Nawaz was 16 he joined a radical Islamist group. After four years in prison in Egypt, he decided to leave it. "I'm very, very lucky to have been able to get through it," he says.

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World News

How Does Al-Qaida Continue To Grow?

6:51pm January 11, 2015

Al-Qaida is growing in Yemen. NPR's Arun Rath talks to Kareem Fahim of the New York Times about whether U.S. policy there is achieving its goals.

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Politics & Government

Gearing Up For Another Season Of Campaign Reporting

6:45pm January 11, 2015

Political reporters are gearing up for a long, vicious presidential campaign in 2016. But has coverage gotten worse over the years? NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Politico media watcher Dylan Byers.

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Religion

Depictions Of Muhammad Aren't Explicitly Forbidden, Says Scholar

6:47pm January 10, 2015

Many Muslims see any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as disrespectful. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with religious scholar Reza Aslan about how radical Islamists have used that to justify attacks.

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Ava DuVernay is up for a Golden Globe for best film director. This makes her the first African-American woman to be nominated in that category.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Selma' Director Ava DuVernay And Writer George Pelecanos

11:49am January 10, 2015

DuVernay talks about her film that dramatizes a turning point in civil rights history; Pelecanos explores crime, adoption and writing from an African-American point of view in The Martini Shot.

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Scoring The Screen: Thomas Newman And the Music Of 'Shawshank'

7:33pm January 06, 2015

Oscar-nominated composer Thomas Newman — whose credits include animated films like Finding Nemo and Wall-E to The Shawshank Redemption — kicks off our "Scoring the Screen" series with Robert Siegel.

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