Radio Programs

There aren't many people who would choose to go back to middle school — what with all its braces, bullies, crushes and drama.

But that's exactly what actors Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle have done in their Hulu comedy series PEN15.

Growing up in Swaziland, Richard E. Grant was always fascinated by acting. As a kid, he made theaters out of shoeboxes and populated them with figurines that he'd cut from magazines. Eventually he moved on to real stages, first in school plays and then with an amateur theater club.

One of the most joyous, true life, "on-the-road" adventures in literary history took place in the summer of 1927. It began in Mobile, Ala., when a young Langston Hughes, who was traveling in the South, stepped off the train from New Orleans and ran smack into Zora Neale Hurston.

Over the course of its four seasons, Rob Delaney wanted Catastrophe —the Amazon series he created with Sharon Horgan — to show a more nuanced portrait of marriage than is typically shown on TV.

Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis come from different generations, but both play the old style of country music — her brother is Jerry Lee Lewis. They share songs and stories from their new album, Wild! Wild! Wild!

Robert Redford has announced that he’s retiring from acting and that his role in the new film The Old Man and the Gun, will be his last.

It's pretty rare for a writer to produce a novel that wins the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and, then, a scant three years later, bring out another novel that's even more extraordinary.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

We are following reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is on his way out of the Department of Justice.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Let's hear from a former colleague of Rod Rosenstein. The deputy attorney general is under pressure for comments about President Trump - saying, reportedly, that he might record his talks with the president or get Cabinet members to remove him using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Supreme Court handed down two decisions at the end of their session last month that could have a big impact on the outcome of elections in the States.

New Yorker journalist Ed Caesar discusses Arron Banks, the British businessman who funded the most extreme end of the pro-Brexit "Leave" campaign — possibly with help from Russia.

It's a terrifying weapon: a nuclear-powered cruise missile that can fly anywhere on the planet, possibly spewing radioactivity as it goes.