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'Fresh Air' at 20: Novelist and Screenwriter Richard Price

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic broadcasts. In this segment: Novelist Richard Price. His gritty urban style is evident in bestsellers like Clockers, Freedomland and Samaritan. Price is also a screenwriter, with credits including adaptations The Color of Money, Mad Dog and Glory, and The Wire, HBO's award-winning series. Recorded in 1985, when Fresh Air was a local daily radio show in Philadelphia.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 11, 2007: Interview with Sam Charters; Interview with Dr. John; Interview with Robert Murphy; Interview with Richard Price.
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'Fresh Air' at 20: Musical Anthropologist Sam Charters

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic broadcasts. In this segment: novelist and blues record producer Sam Charters. In the 1950s, Charters traveled the South, making field recordings of neglected and previously unknown musicians and singers. He's a Grammy Award winner, and his latest books are last year's New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus and Walking a Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing, 1956-2004, published in 2004. Rebroadcast from July 3, 1987.

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'Fresh Air' at 20: New Orleans' Dr. John

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic broadcasts. In this segment: A song from New Orleans musician Dr. John, aka Mac Rebennack. Rebroadcast from May 1987.

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'Fresh Air' at 20: Anthropologist Robert Murphy

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic broadcasts. In this segment: Anthropologist Robert Murphy. In 1972, his body began to twinge with muscle spasms that wouldn't go away; doctors discovered a debilitating tumor growing on his spinal cord.

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Richard Price Details a Gritty 'Lush Life'

Novelist and screenwriter Richard Price discusses his new novel, Lush Life, about the repercussions of a shooting on the Lower East side. Price has written extensively about the realities of inner city life; he is a writer for HBO's The Wire which ends a five-year run on Sunday.

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Novelist Richard Price

He is the author of the best-selling novels Clockers, about life in the inner-city world of drug dealing, and Freedomland. Price's new book Samaritan is about a man who returns as a teacher to the New Jersey town where he was raised, and the bad consequences of his good intentions. Price also is a screenwriter of such films as Sea of Love, Ransom and The Color of Money.

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