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Richard Madden plays Robb Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones.

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Pirates Steal 'Game Of Thrones': Why HBO Doesn't Mind

5:42pm April 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

More than 1 million fans illegally downloaded the first episode of Season 3 of the popular HBO series this week — within 24 hours of its premiere. The illicit popularity of the show, based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling fantasy books, has wider implications for the future of TV.

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Chadwick Boseman plays baseball's trailblazing Jackie Robinson in the upcoming biopic 42.

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In '42,' A Young Star Suits Up For A Hero's Role

11:08am April 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues, is the subject of an upcoming biopic. Chadwick Boseman plays the groundbreaking athlete in 42; he joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about what it felt like to take on a cultural hero.

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Willemjin Verkaik is the latest leading lady to play Elphaba, the misunderstood green girl who grows up to become the Wicked Witch of the West in Broadway's long-running Wicked. She has also played the role in Dutch and German in Europe.

On Broadway, Old Shows And New Tricks

11:08am April 07, 2013

by Jeff Lunden

These days, a hit show can run not just for years but for decades. So how do you keep it fresh for new audiences? Reporter Jeff Lunden talks to people who work on three of Broadway's biggest hits to find out.

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Tracy K. Smith was NPR's first NewsPoet.

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Does Poetry Still Matter? Yes Indeed, Says NPR NewsPoet

11:08am April 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

April is famously the cruelest month — according to the poem — but it's also the month we celebrate poetry. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith says we all need poetry, and even those of us who don't write poems can still learn how to see and hear the world through poetry.

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The Extraordinary Lives Of Ordinary North Koreans

4:55pm April 06, 2013

Amid a cascade of headline news from North Korea, often forgotten are the 24 million average citizens living under the most authoritarian regime in the world. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times on the lives of ordinary North Koreans.

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Winston-Salem Symphony: "Music For Lovers"

9:30pm April 05, 2013

Our 2012-2013 local performance broadcast series continues Sunday, May 5th at 8:00 pm.

Bill Glucroft, an American Jew living in Berlin, chats with visitors from his box in the most controversial portion of the Berlin Jewish Museum's exhibition "The Whole Truth."

Jewishness On Display: 'Truth' By Way Of Discomfort

9:16pm April 05, 2013

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

A new exhibit in Berlin's Jewish Museum is intentionally provocative. The point, one curator says, is to "get people talking about how they perceive Jews, particularly in Germany today." At the center of the controversy is a display in which a Jewish person sits inside a glass showcase and answers questions from visitors.

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Remembering Robert Ward

3:44pm April 05, 2013

by David Ford

Robert Ward, a former chancellor of UNC School of the Arts and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, died early Wednesday at his home in Durham after a period of failing health. He was 95.

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Triad Arts Weekend: April 5, 2013

2:55pm April 05, 2013

by David Ford

It's a music-lover's paradise from beginning to end today on the show.

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The iconic Chicago photographer Art Shay took portraits of presidents, prizefighters, prose poets — and in the person of Roger Ebert, at least one Pulitzer-winning critic.

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Roger Ebert In Review: A 'Fresh Air' Survey

1:10pm April 05, 2013

Fresh Air remembers film critic Roger Ebert, who died Thursday, with a roundup of interviews from our archive — one with Ebert alone, one with him and his late partner Gene Siskel, and two in which Ebert interviews iconic directors. Plus, critic-at-large John Powers discusses Ebert's 2011 memoir Life Itself.

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