Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
As 'Boardwalk Empire' Comes To Close, Creator Reminisces About How It Started: The HBO show began its final season Sunday. Terence Winter says he wrote the Prohibition-era drama in part to work with Martin Scorsese. It was "something I couldn't possibly ... pass up," he says.
3 Roosevelts Come Alive In PBS Documentary, Ken Burns' Best Yet: A 14-hour biography of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Delanor starts Sunday. Actors including Paul Giamatti and Meryl Streep put on Emmy-worthy vocal performances reading from an Emmy-worthy script.
How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel: In So We Read On, Maureen Corrigan looks at the story behind The Great Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's life to the era in which it's set. She says it's her favorite novel, but it wasn't always.
You can listen to the original interviews here:
As 'Boardwalk Empire' Comes To Close, Creator Reminisces About How It Started
3 Roosevelts Come Alive In PBS Documentary, Ken Burns' Best Yet
How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel
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