Skip to main content
Georgia Public Broadcasting Logo
  • Watch

    Featured Specials and Programs

    • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Antiques Roadshow
    • PBS News Hour
    • Miss Scarlet & The Duke
    • Finding Your Roots
    • Doc Martin
    All Programs

    GPB Originals

    • Georgia Legends
    • Lawmakers
    • A Fork in the Road
    • View Finders
    • Georgia Outdoors
    • Your Fantastic Mind
    GPB Originals

    Browse by Genre

    • Arts & Music
    • Culture
    • Drama
    • Food
    • History
    • News & Public Affairs
    • TV Schedule
    • GPB Programs
    • PBS Passport
    • TV Highlights this Week
    • PBS KIDS
    • Ways to Watch
    • Newsletters
    • Contact GPB
  • Listen

    Featured Programs

    • The Daily
    • Morning Edition
    • All Things Considered
    • Serendipity
    • John Lemley's City Cafe
    • Fresh Air
    • Here and Now
    • Code Switch/Life Kit
    • Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
    All Programs

    Podcasts

    • GA Today
    • Salvation South
    • Battleground: Ballot Box
    • Football Fridays in Georgia
    • Narrative Edge
    • Peach Jam Podcast
    • A Fork in the Road
    • Radio Schedule
    • GPB Classical
    • Radio Programs
    • Podcasts
    • GPB News
    • Find Your Station
    • Ways to Listen
    • Contact GPB
    • Newsletters
  • Learn

    Featured

    • Chemistry Matters
    • Classroom Conversations Podcast
    • GASHA Go! World
    • Georgia Farmcraft®
    • Georgia Classroom
    • Georgia Studies Collection
    • Econ Express
    • Let’s Go Enviro
    • Let's Learn GA!
    • Lights, Camera, Budget!
    • Live Explorations
    • Physics in Motion
    • School Stories
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • VR in the Classroom
    • Writers Contest

    For Kids & Teachers

    • GPB Games
    • PBS KIDS
    • PBS LearningMedia

    • on Twitter
    • on Facebook
    • on Email
  • News

    Featured Programs & Series

    • Lawmakers
    • Lawmakers: Beyond the Dome
    • 1A
    • Battleground: Ballot Box
    • GA Today Podcast
    • Storycorps
    • Narrative Edge

    More GPB News

    • Politics
    • Georgia News
    • Justice
    • Arts & Life
    • Health
    All GPB News
    • Radio Schedule
    • Radio Stations
    • GPB Apps
    • Podcasts
    • Contact GPB News
    • Follow Us on Apple News
    • Newsletters
  • Sports

    GHSA Sports

    • Football
    • Basketball
    • Cheerleading
    • On Demand
    • GPB Sports Blog
    All Sports

    High School Football

    • Scores & Schedule
    • On Demand
    • Teams
    • Rankings
    • Brackets
    • Heads Up Georgia
    Football Home
    • GPB Sports App
    • GPB Sports Blog
    • GPB Sports OnDemand
  • Events

    Browse by Type

    • Community
    • Donor
    • Kids & Family
    • Screenings
    All Events

    Browse by Category

    • Education
    • News
    • Sports
    • Television

    Sign up to receive GPB Event announcements via Email.

    Sign up

    • on Twitter
    • on Facebook
    • on Instagram
  • Kids & Families

    For Kids

    • Video
    • Games

    For Parents & Caregivers

    • Kids & Families Blog
    • Kids & Families Events
    • GPB KIDS - Ways to Watch
  • Support Us

    Support GPB

    • Ways to Give
    • Planned Giving
    • Sustainers
    • GPB Passport
    • Leadership Giving
    • Corporate Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donations
    • GPB Next
    • Matching Gifts
  • Search
GPB Passport icon GPB Passport icon Passport
GPB donate icon GPB donate icon Donate

Media Utility

  • TV Schedule
  • Podcasts
  • Apps

Don't Miss

Don't Miss:

  • New Podcast: Robbery, Inc
  • Federal Funding Update
  • Explore GPB Passport
Listen Live Listen Live Watch Live Watch Live
GPB Passport icon GPB Passport icon Passport
GPB donate icon GPB donate icon Donate

News Articles: Fresh Air

Tagged as: 

  • Your Health

Stay away from Dr. Google, and other lessons learned about hypochondria

Caroline Crampton developed excessive health anxiety after being treated for cancer as a teen. In A Body Made of Glass she chronicles her experience with hypochondria and the history of the condition.

December 05, 2024
|
By:
  • Terry Gross

Tagged as: 

  • Book Reviews

'Time of the Child' is a marvelous blend of despair and redemption

Set in a small Irish village in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1962, Niall Williams' latest novel avoids cliché by investing specificity and life into characters and places.

December 04, 2024
|
By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
Mickalene Thomas' 2015 work "Afro Goddess Looking Forward." <em>Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Fine Art

Mickalene Thomas makes art that 'gives Black women their flowers'

Thomas' work puts Black women front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by reclaiming space."

December 03, 2024
|
By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Bailey Williams is a storyteller and yoga teacher in Alaska.

Tagged as: 

  • Author Interviews

'I think of my body as a teacher,' says Marine who struggled with disordered eating

During her years as a military linguist, Bailey Williams pushed her body to extremes. Her new book is Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines.

November 25, 2024
|
By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in <em>Wicked</em>.

Tagged as: 

  • Movie Reviews

'Gladiator II' and 'Wicked' are lavish spectacles — but are they another Barbenheimer?

Two big-budget films are set to battle at the box office: Wicked offers a gravity-defying origin story for the Wicked Witch of the West, while Gladiator II revisits the violence of ancient Rome.

November 22, 2024
|
By:
  • Justin Chang
Ted Danson stars as a widowed retiree who goes undercover to solve a crime in a retirement community in<em> A Man on the Inside.</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Television

How do you solve a crime at a retirement home? Get 'A Man on the Inside'

Michael Schur wrote for the The Office and created The Good Place. His new show for Netflix features Ted Danson as a widowed retiree who goes undercover in a retirement community.

November 21, 2024
|
By:
  • Terry Gross
Then-President Donald Trump holds up <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>as he speaks at the White House on April 19, 2020.

Tagged as: 

  • Media

Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'

Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron says he thinks Trump is "salivating for the opportunity to prosecute and imprison journalists." New Yorker editor David Remnick agrees.

November 20, 2024
|
By:
  • Terry Gross
Selena Gomez in <em>Emilia Pérez.</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Movie Interviews

Selena Gomez says 'Emilia Pérez' won't be her last Spanish language project

Gomez grew up speaking Spanish, but lost her fluency around the same time she began her Hollywood career as a kid. She spent months relearning the language for her latest role as the wife of a Mexican cartel boss.

November 19, 2024
|
By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) form a sisterly bond in <em>All We Can Imagine as Light. </em>

Tagged as: 

  • Movie Reviews

Friendship becomes a powerful act of resistance in 'All We Can Imagine as Light'

This enveloping drama, which centers two women in Mumbai, is about solidarity between women, about making ends meeting, and about how a populous city can feel like the loneliest place in the world.

November 18, 2024
|
By:
  • Justin Chang
Jimmy O. Yang plays a waiter who finds himself embroiled in a mystery in <em>Interior Chinatown.</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Television

Jimmy O. Yang says 'Interior Chinatown' is a chance to break away from the expected

In his new Hulu series, Yang plays a waiter who inadvertently becomes central to a crime story. As an Asian American actor, he says he relates to the character's feeling of invisibility.

November 18, 2024
|
By:
  • Ann Marie Baldonado

Tagged as: 

  • Book Reviews

Two books delivered beauty, inspiration and humor — just when I needed them most

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water, by Billy Collins, and The Dog Who Followed the Moon, by James Norbury.

November 14, 2024
|
By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
"There's actual studies that show that itching is contagious," journalist Annie Lowrey says. "Watching somebody scratch will make a person scratch."

Tagged as: 

  • USPS

Chronic itch is miserable. Scientists are just scratching the surface

Journalist Annie Lowrey has a rare disease that causes a near-constant itch that doesn't respond to most treatments. She likens the itchiness to a car alarm: "You can't stop thinking about it."

November 12, 2024
|
By:
  • Terry Gross
Nicholas Hoult (front row, center) plays Justin Kemp in<em> Juror #2.</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Movie Reviews

'Juror #2' is a thorny legal thriller — and possibly Clint Eastwood's last film

Eastwood takes measured aim at the American justice system in a film that centers on a murder trial — and a juror who realizes he may be implicated in the crime.

November 08, 2024
|
By:
  • Justin Chang

Tagged as: 

  • Book Reviews

Need a break from politics? Marvel at the 'Vanishing Treasures' of the natural world

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading for anyone whose wonder could use a jumpstart.

November 07, 2024
|
By:
  • Maureen Corrigan
Saoirse Ronan plays a woman struggling with addiction in <em>The Outrun.</em>

Tagged as: 

  • Movie Interviews

Saoirse Ronan says her experience as a child actor continues to shape her work

Ronan credits her parents and the filmmakers she worked with as a child for keeping acting fun. She stars as a woman struggling with addiction in The Outrun and as a World War II mother in Blitz.

November 06, 2024
|
By:
  • Ann Marie Baldonado
  • Load More

Newsletter Signup

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Connect with GPB

  • Connect with GPB on Facebook
  • Connect with GPB on Instagram
  • Connect with GPB on Twitter
  • Connect with GPB on YouTube
  • Connect with GPB on Apple News

Footer

Footer First Nav (Main Menu)

  • Watch
  • Listen
  • Learn
  • News
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Kids & Families
  • Support Us
  • Search

Footer Second Nav Menu

  • Help Center
  • About GPB
  • Contact Us
  • Closed Captioning
  • Directions
  • Studio Production
  • Program Submissions

Footer Third Nav Menu

  • Support Us
  • Careers
  • Accessibility
  • FCC Public Files
  • Drawing Rules
  • News Media Request
  • Open Records and Document Retention Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Georgia Public Broadcasting

260 14th St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
United States

(404) 685-2400 In Atlanta
(800) 222-4788 Outside Atlanta
ask@gpb.org

Newsletter Signup

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Connect with GPB

  • Connect with GPB on Facebook
  • Connect with GPB on Instagram
  • Connect with GPB on Twitter
  • Connect with GPB on YouTube
  • Connect with GPB on Apple News
© Copyright 2025, Georgia Public Broadcasting. All Rights Reserved. Georgia Public Radio® GPTV®