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"Godfather of Soul" James Brown spoke to Fresh Air in 2005. Justin Chang reviews Three Thousand Years of Longing. Greenwich co-wrote some of the most popular girl group songs of the early 1960s.

In the film, Couric asks gun owners a question and is met with dumbstruck silence. That's not what happened in the interview. Instead, NPR's David Folkenflik says, it was a foolish directorial choice.

Rita Moreno is the only Latina to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. In this encore conversation, host Michel Martin speaks to her about the highlights and challenges of her long career.

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.

David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad.

Legendary poet Maya Angelou died Wednesday at the age of 86. Poet Nikki Giovanni, who was a friend, remembers her life and work.

Berkshire native, producer, digital music maker, and erstwhile stand-up comedian McQueen Adams will be at Studio 9 on the Porches Inn campus in North Adams, Massachusetts this Saturday and Sunday evenings, performing new songs and bits for those in attendance. The shows will be recorded as McQueen’s next album “Touch” and he’ll be joined by a cadre of comedy-and-creep adjacent characters - as embodied by artists and friends who seem very happy to be on his unique artistic journey with him.

Almost all the original cast return for a four-episode plot that centers on Hal and Lois' 40th-wedding-anniversary party. Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair is full of laughs and surprises.

Dan Diamond, who covers the Dept. of Health and Human Services for Politico, says the number of HHS leaders who previously worked in the anti-abortion and anti-LGBT movement is "unusual and notable."

Broadcasting great Larry King died this weekend. He was 87. Under normal circumstances, we would run a past conversation to remember him by. Alas, of the…