Podcast Recommendation: Fresh Air

February 1, 2023: How Modern Day Slavery Powers the Rechargeable Battery Economy

The media predecessor to the podcast was radio, specifically weekly and daily radio interview shows. Terry Gross is the best I've ever heard at the art of the interview. Who would you want to get to know? Johnny Cash?  Ray Charles? Steven Colbert? Lin-Manuel Miranda? Toni Morrison? Rosemary Cloony? Meril Streep?  Francis Ford Coppola? Questlove? Sandra Oh? Rosie Perez? Robin Williams? What about Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, Barbara Bush? Rachel Maddow? Megyn Kelly?  Think of someone important, there is a good chance that Terry Gross has interviewed them. Think of an important topic in politics, culture, religion. Terry Gross has covered it. 

Terry Gross began recording interviews in 1975 at WHYY in Philadelphia and has never stopped. From the beginning she was able to gain access to some of the most important personalities in the arts world and over the years she has interviewed an unrivaled list of people from the realms of entertainment, literature and the arts, politics, religion, business and general culture. Well over 20,000 segments and/or interviews covers the widest range of topics. When a significant figure from the music or entertainment dies, tune in to Fresh Air and you will likely hear selections from one or more interviews over the decades. Example - Burt Bacharach passed away in February. Click on Fresh Air to hear selections from one interview with Bacharach and Elvis Costello, and another with Bacharach and lyricist Hal David.

Link: How Modern Day Slavery Powers the Rechargeable Battery Economy

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Terry Gross, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists. New York: Hyperion, 2004.