Terry Gross

John Powers reviews the Paramount+ Series Diarra from Detroit

(1.) LISA KUDROW. She's up for two Emmys for the final season of The Comeback, for lead actress in a comedy and for writing, the HBO series she co-created and stars in as Valerie Cherish, an actress who keeps trying to get her career back. It's her third acting nomination for the role, across three seasons and twenty-one years. Kudrow won an Emmy in 1998 for playing Phoebe on Friends. (INTERVIEW BY TONYA MOSLEY) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Adventure writer PETER HELLER, who wrote The Dog Stars, a story about two men who become unlikely compatriots when a pandemic wipes out much of the country's population. It’s been adapted into a new film starring Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin. His other novels include The Whale Warriors, Hell or High Water, The River, Celine, The Painter, and his latest, The Orchard. (INTERVIEW BY DAVE DAVIES). (THIS INTERVIEW IS A REBROADCAST. IT ORIGINALLY AIRED ON AUGUST 13, 2012.)