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Fresh Air with Terry Gross is a Peabody Award-winning magazine of contemporary arts and issues. Produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, Pa., the show is known for captivating interviews with guests from literature, science, music, film, and more. Fresh Air Weekend culls the highlights from the previous week's shows for engaging weekend listening.

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Document McNamara And The 'Fog Of War'
 Errol Morris' Academy Award-Winning documentary about former defense secretary Robert McNamara, <em>The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara</em>, offers fresh insight into the man many consider to be the architect of the Vietnam conflict. (07/06/2009)
Document Robert McNamara On Doubts, And Vietnam
 Former defense secretary Robert McNamara died Monday. In a 1995 interview with Terry Gross, McNamara reflects on Vietnam and admits his serious doubts about US policy and the decision-making that escalated the war. (07/06/2009)
Document Director John Barton in 'Playing Shakespeare'
 <em>Playing Shakespeare,</em> a 1984 series in which actors dissect some of the Bard's most famous works, shows how crucial an understanding of Shakespeare's language and versification are to conveying the meaning &mdash; and power &mdash; of his scenes. (07/06/2009)
Document Different Year, Same 'Marienbad'
 When it came out in 1961, Alain Resnais' <em>Last Year at Marienbad</em> perplexed and excited audiences with its surrealistic storytelling. John Powers has a review of the film's Criterion Collection re-release. (07/03/2009)
Document Mellencamp Muses About Mortality, 'Love'
 John Mellencamp joins Terry Gross to talk religion, politics and his album <em>Life, Death, Love and Freedom.</em> And he performs solo acoustic versions of four songs from the album from his Indiana home studio. (07/03/2009)
Document The Crackdown In Iran, As Seen From Europe
 Journalist Christopher Dickey provides a European perspective on the continuing crackdown on protesters in Iran following the recent election. (07/02/2009)
Document Roya Hakakian: An Iranian-American Perspective
 Author and activist Roya Hakakian offers her take on political upheaval in her native Iran. Hakakian emigrated from Iran to the United States in 1985, seeking political asylum. (07/02/2009)
Document 'Family': Fundamentalism, Friends In High Places
 In the book <em>The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,</em> author Jeff Sharlet examines the power wielded by the secret Christian group known as The Family or The Fellowship. (07/01/2009)
Document From 'Public Enemies' - 'Goodbye Mr. Dillinger'
 This lush, good-looking crime flick doesn't really have a theme, and it never quite sparks to life. But it's got lots of incidental pleasures &mdash; Johnny Depp's spirited performance chief among them. (07/01/2009)
Document Assessing The State Of The (Republican) Nation
 <em>Washington Post</em> reporter Dan Balz sizes up the state of the Republican party &mdash; including how the GOP is preparing for 2012 and how it has been affected by recent sex scandals. (06/30/2009)
Document Overview Of Recent Supreme Court Rulings
 Journalist and lawyer Adam Liptak covers the Supreme Court for <em>The New York Times.</em> He gives us a roundup of this year's most important decisions &mdash; some of which were left for the final hours before summer recess. (06/30/2009)
Document Patterson Hood: Drive-By Boss Does 'Murder'
 Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Patterson Hood's new album <em>Murdering Oscar and Other Love Songs</em>. It's Hood's second solo album featuring songs from the early 90's as well as some more recent ones, all of them have been freshly recorded over the past few years. (06/30/2009)
Document Helping Journalists Beat Post-Traumatic Stress
 With such a high-stakes, high-stress lifestyle, many journalists return from war zones with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Anthony Feinstein is one of those working to help them overcome the emotional aftereffects of covering conflict. (06/29/2009)
Document Former Hostage On Protecting Journalists
 Journalist &mdash; and former hostage &mdash; Chris Cramer talks about how his experience as a captive during the 1980 London Iranian Embassy siege evolved into an effort to protect journalists in hostile conditions. (06/29/2009)
Document From 'Hurt Locker' - 'Dude Has A Cell Phone'
 Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow knows how to get under your skin and control your responses &mdash; as she does in her latest feature, the Baghdad-set war movie <em>The Hurt Locker.</em> David Edelstein has a review. (06/26/2009)
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