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Fresh Air Weekend: WNBA star Brittney Griner; Discovering plant 'intelligence'
In Coming Home, Griner reflects on spending nearly 300 days in a Russian prison. Sonny Rollins' music speaks for itself on newly reissued Freedom Weaver. Zoë Schlanger considers plant consciousness.
Taylor Swift's confessional 'Tortured Poets' would have benefitted from an edit
by Ken Tucker
Though Swift performs a range of experience and emotions, the music on her 11th album feels thin and is often in service of lyrics that could have used a red pencil.
Remembering documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola
by Terry Gross
Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.
Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS 'NewsHour'
by Terry Gross
During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1995.
Journalist says we're 'basically guinea pigs' for a new form of industrialized food
by Tonya Mosley
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser says mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated and sometimes dangerous. His new documentary is Food, Inc. 2.
Remembering acclaimed artist and quilter Faith Ringgold
by Terry Gross
Ringgold, who died April 12, portrayed themes of Black life and culture through her quilts, paintings, dolls and books. Her work was exhibited in many major museums. Originally broadcast in 1991.