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Fresh Air Weekend
8:03 am
Sat March 16, 2013

Fresh Air Weekend: Adrian Younge, 'Frankenstein's Cat' And Tegan And Sara

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Originally published on Sat March 16, 2013 9:30 am

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:

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Politics
4:14 am
Sat March 16, 2013

What's Changed: From Brady Bill To Current Gun Control Push

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Originally published on Sat March 16, 2013 6:46 am

Host Scott Simon speaks with Sarah Brady about current attempts to pass gun control legislation. Brady has been active in promoting additional gun control since her husband, former presidential press secretary James Brady, was shot in the head during the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

Sports
4:14 am
Sat March 16, 2013

Bright Beginnings, Sad Endings In Sports News

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Originally published on Sat March 16, 2013 6:46 am

Spring's around the corner, and baseball's back in full swing with spring training and the World Baseball Classic entering the elimination stage. While the Miami Heat have been on a tear, Grambling State just completed the opposite: a winless season at 0-28. Host Scott Simon is joined by Howard Bryant of ESPN.

Middle East
4:14 am
Sat March 16, 2013

Reading The Tea Leaves Of Obama's Mideast Trip

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Originally published on Sat March 16, 2013 6:46 am

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Movie Interviews
3:03 am
Sat March 16, 2013

'Leviathan': The Fishing Life, From 360 Degrees

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The noisy film is mostly wordless, with animals and nature filling in the blanks between its strangely stark images.
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, co-directors of the new documentary Leviathan, at a public screening of their film. Both are members of Harvard University's experimental Sensory Ethnography Lab.
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Originally published on Sat March 16, 2013 6:46 am

Leviathan is a documentary — and yet not a documentary. It's a near-wordless, almost abstract depiction of an 80-foot groundfishing boat heading out of New Bedford, Mass. The film's unusual structure and point of view has gotten rave reviews at festivals and from many critics.

Sometimes you don't know quite what you're seeing and listening to in Leviathan. You hear metal groaning and rasping, see fish, gloves and tools tossed about on a boat that's pitching and rolling in a roaring wind.

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