March 19, 2010 | NPR· The AMC series Breaking Bad and the new Discovery Channel nature series Life premiere on Sunday night — and Showtimes' Nurse Jackie and The United States of Tara are back Monday. TV Critic David Bianculli reviews all four — and tells you which ones are worth watching.
March 19, 2010 | NPR· Best known as the dad on Fox TV's Malcolm in the Middle, Cranston talks with Terry Gross about his latest role — a meth-cooking high-school chemistry teacher in AMC's Breaking Bad.
March 19, 2010 | NPR· Chilton, who died Wednesday from a heart attack, was the lead singer of the '60s teenage band the Box Tops and the '70s power pop group Big Star. He joined Fresh Air for two interviews, first in 1991 and again in 2000. Today, we remember the cult musician.
March 19, 2010 | NPR· A story of the sultry all-girl '70s rock band fronted by Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, The Runaways is an exhilarating story of female self-expression that's also a cautionary tale of female exploitation. Kristen Stewart co-stars as Jett, but critic David Edelstein says it's Dakota Fanning as Currie who gives the film its electricity.
March 18, 2010 | NPR· Until his arrest in 2004, nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan — the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb — ran a vast smuggling network that sent nuclear materiel to Iran and Libya. In his book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, weapons expert David Albright explains how Khan's network continues to threaten global security.
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