The world's biggest story keeps getting bigger. This week on Up First, we're tracking the escalating war in Iran, rising oil prices, and a global economy on edge. As the conflict spills beyond Iran, our host Leila Fadal is on the ground in Iraq. Listen each morning for three stories you need to start your day on Up First, on the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. Is there anyone who doesn't know who Harrison Ford is? Probably not. Not after starring in the original and the sequels of Star Wars, the Indiana Jones movies, and Blade Runner. He's in his 80s, but in the last three years you might have seen him in the final Indiana Jones film, The Dial of Destiny, the prequel to Yellowstone called 1923, and his current series, Shrinking. Three seasons of shrinking are streaming on Apple TV, and it's been renewed for a fourth. He plays a therapist, Paul, who heads a practice that includes two other therapists, Jimmy, played by Jason Segel, and Gabby, played by Jessica Williams. Paul is at an age where most people have retired, but he doesn't want to. At the same time, he thinks maybe he needs to. He has Parkinson's disease. At first, the symptoms were relatively minor, but they've progressed. His hands shake so much it's difficult to put the toothpaste onto the toothbrush. Even more problematic because it affects his work, his shaky hands are making it difficult to take notes when he's talking with patients. Michael J. Fox is in a couple of episodes playing a man who has a more advanced case of Parkinson's and is very depressed. They first meet at a doctor's office where they're both patients. Paul is a gifted therapist, but it's hard for him to express emotion, and he has a dark and cynical sense of humor. In this scene from the current season, season three, Paul has returned to work after taking some time off because a UTI was causing hallucinations. So this scene is from his first day back at work. He's telling Jimmy he thinks it might be time to retire. In the past, Paul had asked Jimmy to tell him when he thought it was time. Now Jason Segel's character, Jimmy, speaks first. Hey, how was your first day back? really great I think it's time for me to stop being a therapist do you Paul I'm not going to fall for that one twice no I'm serious took going away and coming back to see it but it's time Jimmy I'm supposed to tell you that it's time Well, you can do that if you want. It's time for you to retire, Paul. Okay. Not the way I saw this going in my head. I'm going to miss you. You mean so, so much to me. I've always wanted to tell you this one thing, and I'm going to say it. Oh, Jesus, Jimmy, please. I'm not leaving now. I've got patients to notify. I've got referrals to make. It'll take months to wind down this practice. You only get to say goodbye once, and it's not today. Come on, I want pizza on the way home. Let's go. Let's go! Harrison Ford, welcome to Fresh Air. It's such an honor to speak with you. Thank you for being here. Oh, how kind of you. Thank you for having me. Some people are surprised that you're continuing to act, you know, in your 80s. and Paul says, after his Parkinson's has gotten worse, and he's thinking of retiring, he says, I love my job more than anything, and I don't know who I am without it. Do you relate to that, or do you know who you are without your work? Yeah, I guess I do. But without my work, I really wouldn't know what to do with myself, really. With your time? Well, I suppose I could fill my time, But I don't know what else I might do that would give me the kind of satisfaction and the kind of challenge that the work I'm doing does give me. I really do love the work. I don't blame you. It seems like it would be so fulfilling. Well, it constantly changes and the people change and the mission and the opportunity change. and it just makes for an interesting way to live your life. And I love that you play your age because it's frustrating when a beautiful woman plays somebody who's ugly by just not wearing as much makeup but she's never ugly. Or a younger person has to play an older person by putting on prosthetics. Like, we have talented people who look like they're supposed to look. Can we cast them, please? Well, I felt that way when I was de-aged in Indiana Jones. But sometimes it works, and I thought it worked in Indiana Jones, that de-aging part. But I'm happy to be the age I am, and I have no impulse to hide it. Well, speaking of Indiana Jones, so Dial of Destiny was like 2023 it was released. And, you know, you're still like super strong and agile in that. And then you had to go from that to not long after doing shrinking. and so in shrinking you're physically compromised because of the Parkinson's disease. What was it like for you and your body to be action heroes strong and then your hand is shaking too much to take notes? Well, I mean, it starts with the head of the character, what's in his head, what's in his mind, And I'm always aware of this physicalization of a character. And the Parkinson's or the various symptoms of Parkinson's do help characterize Paul. And so it's an opportunity to use another means to create the character. Michael J. Fox is in the series, and you meet at a doctor's office. He's really depressed. Did he give you advice about how to play the role? Nope. Really? You didn't ask him for advice? No. Because every case is different, and my case is not yet described to me fully. My writers present symptomology and characteristics as they are writing. And so I'm sort of living with the symptoms I have been last described as having. Yeah, I mean, the thing about Parkinson's is that it affects everything, but it affects different parts of it. There's a whole long list of things it affects, but everybody gets a different number of them and a different variation of them. Right, right. Tremors everybody gets, yeah. So like a true Parkinson's patient, I don't really know what's coming. Oh, that's interesting. You mean like what the writers have in store for you in terms of your symptoms? Yeah. I have a general sense of how far it goes this season, but nothing specific yet. And that's just the way our show works. We get a script probably, if we're lucky, a couple weeks ahead of time, but normally maybe just a couple of days or a week ahead of time. Did playing the role make you think about your body in a new way and think of what it would be like to not be able to control your movements? Not specifically. To be honest, no. There's parts of it I haven't thought through yet, really. And I think that might be similar to how I might react if I did have Parkinson's. I would want to know certain things and other things I would just not want to know. So as to not obsess on them? So as to not be looking for them. Just be happy enough with what you got. Paul, your character has a very cynical sense of humor. He's really funny, very like dark retorts. And you have a very funny sense of humor. I heard you on Conan's podcast, and you make Conan and the whole team laugh so much and so hard. Do you ever punch up your lines or add funny lines because, honestly, your sense of humor is so good? Sure, stuff comes up, and we have really good writers, and I love what they have to offer. But, you know, it's a collaborative atmosphere, and I feel free to bring up any idea I have. Can you think of a line that you added in one of your movies? I guess the most famous, the one most well-known and perhaps illustrative of where it comes from is the line in Star Wars where Princess Leia tells me that she loves me and I say, I know, I know, instead of saying I love you too, which is the scripted line. And simply the impulse was to be more in character. And George Lucas, who had written the line, was not so happy that I didn't give him the original version. But I really felt strongly about it. So he made me sit next to him when he previewed the film in a public movie theater in San Francisco. And it got a laugh, but it got a good laugh. And so he accepted it and left it in. So Juan has to play another scene from Shrinking, and this is from the first season. I think it's the pilot, actually. So Jimmy, who's one of the therapists in Paul's office, and he's played by Jason Segel, He's really annoyed with his patients for not changing when he's told them they have to change and stop doing the thing that's making them miserable. But this is just an expression of his disorientation and grief because his wife died a year or two ago in a car crash. And he hasn't recovered. He hasn't been himself since her death. So this is the scene where he talking to your character Paul and explaining why he so angry And also you hear Jessica Williams as therapist Gabby and Harrison Ford you speak first Hey kid how are you doing I normal you know It a normal day, normal day. Doing it, doing it normal style. Hey, you know what I was thinking, Paul? Is it about how you're just doing it normal style? What? What are you thinking? You guys ever get so mad at your patients that all of a sudden you just want to shake them. Well we don't shake them. No I know I know I'm rooting for them I am I'm like come on you up person you can change and then they just never do. Compassion fatigue we all hit those walls. Yeah. You ask questions you listen you stay non-judgmental and you don't make that face. Sorry, it's just, look, we know what they should do. You know why? Because it's pretty simple. I get sad when I do this thing. Maybe don't do that thing. We know the answer. Don't you ever want to just make them do it? Great idea. We just rob them of their autonomy, any chance they have to help themselves, right? And we become what? Psychological vigilantes? Oh my God. I'm like sensing the sarcasm, but that sounds kind of badass. I like that scene a lot. So you haven't experienced like the body symptoms of Parkinson's, even though you have to portray them in your role. But you have experienced a whole lot of injuries that you sustained making movies, including on your last Indiana Jones film in 2023. So I'll run through a list of things that I've read. and you can confirm that you've had this. You ruptured a disc in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. You tore a ligament in The Fugitive. In Star Wars, The Force Awakens, a hydraulic door closed on you and you broke your leg and injured your ankle. In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, you injured your shoulder while you were rehearsing. So how are you dealing with pain? Pretty good. It sounds like I'm accident prone. Oh, not to me. It sounds like you're in movies where you do dangerous things, and of course you'd get some injuries. Yeah, it's running, jumping, falling down. Yeah, there you go. And I gave it the office. Let's put it that way. Because they made you do it? No, nobody makes me do it. I make the choices of whether I want to do something. They'll often tell me, no, you can't do it. Like don't do the stunt? Yeah, well, it's not a stunt. If I'm doing it, it's by definition not a stunt. But that doesn't mean it's not risky. Well, what it means is that I want the audience to be with the character through the activity that we're talking about. I don't want to have to hide the face of the character because it's a stunt guy. I want them to feel the blow. I want them to see the anxiety. I want them to be there when the decision is made or when the decision is missed. I just want them to be there. And it takes me being there to bring them along, I think. What's the closest you've come in real life to an action scene? I suppose we won't be satisfied unless we talk about the airplane accident. It just occurred to me that's what you might say, yeah. Well, I've got to face the music, don't I? But let's just start by saying that it was a mechanical failure. And I'll mention here it was a World War II vintage plane. Yeah, it was a 74-year-old airplane. I was 74 years old at the time. It was a beautiful day, and I had just recovered from an earlier accident and had gone out with a bunch of guys on a mountain bike ride. And I came home and sitting in the hot tub, and I tried to talk my wife into going with me for a ride because it was such a beautiful day. She demurred, and I had a lunch with my daughter and asked her if she wanted to go, and she said no. So I went by myself, and 400 feet in the air above the airport, the engine quit. And it's my home airport, and I was familiar with the surrounding terrain, which is cluttered with houses, wires, and cars, and people. So I turned to a golf course that was there. and when I landed my seat belt pulled out of the place where it was secured and so I got a major blow on the head which resulted in a brain injury that was described to me that I didn't remember the moments because it was retrograde amnesia, a kind of protective device of the brain. So I don't really remember that much about it. I remember telling the tower when I declared the emergency that the instruction they gave me was not going to be followed because I didn't have enough altitude to do what they wanted, suggested I do. Anyway, that's the story in a nutshell. So you said it was a protective form of amnesia, so you wouldn't have the memory of like falling and crashing. Are you grateful for that? I wasn't falling and crashing because I had my, in my ear was the very clear voice of one of my aviation mentors, Bob Hoover, a famous pilot, who always, when talking about mechanical failures or other kinds of failures, The advice was to fly the airplane as far into the crash as possible. You think about this thing when you're a pilot. You think about the potential, the possibility of it happening. And, of course, you train. So when it happened, it was not really a surprise. And I thought I knew what I had to do to handle it. So I just started doing the things that needed to be done. So you drove the plane into the ground to fly into the crash? No, I maneuvered the airplane using what gravity was going to give me and what the airplane could do, powered only by gravity, and to mitigate the consequence came at the ground. So that's what I did. I picked a spot and was in the process of landing there. I had run out of energy to maintain lift, so it wasn't a smooth landing. It was more of a crash, but I had not landed on anybody else, and I was in a clear space. So I'd done what I needed to do. Did you think you were going to die? No, I did not. When the engine quit, I did not think. No. I just flew the airplane. I don't remember actually being scared. That's amazing. Yeah. What were your injuries? They were more than described in the newspaper. But I'm over them all. Thank you. Got my license back and continue to fly. Were you afraid to fly at all afterwards? No. No. You're really lucky that you have a mind that can sustain all these injuries and a plane crash and just keep going and not be afraid. I don't think I'm not being afraid. I just, I don't put myself in a situation where I think there's going to be an adverse consequence. You know, I'm not a thrill seeker. I was a very, I am a very conservative pilot. So, you know, it's not that I do crazy stuff for the fun of it. This is exactly what I hear war correspondents say, that they're careful, they don't take unnecessary risks. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. Okay, time for a break. I have to reintroduce you if you're just joining us. My guest is Harrison Ford, and he's now starring in the series Shrinking, which is streaming on Apple TV. We'll be right back. This is Fresh Air. This message comes from WISE, the app for international people using money around the globe. You can send, spend, and receive in up to 40 currencies with only a few simple taps. Be smart. Get WISE. Download the WISE app today or visit WISE.com. T's and C's apply. Hi, this is Molly C.V. Nespert, digital producer at Fresh Air. And this is Terry Gross, host of the show. One of the things I do is write the weekly newsletter. And I'm a newsletter fan. I read it every Saturday after breakfast. The newsletter includes all the week's shows, staff recommendations, and Molly picks timely highlights from the archive. It's a fun read. It's also the only place where we tell you what's coming up next week. An exclusive. So subscribe at whyy.org slash fresh air and look for an email from Molly every Saturday morning. So you live in L.A., but you also have a ranch in Wyoming where you spend a lot of time. And you've said that when you're asked about religion, you explain that nature is the equivalent of God or religion for you. When did you start thinking of nature that way? When I had to explain why I was not going to accept the invitation to go to Vietnam. You were drafted? I was facing being drafted. And I hired a lawyer to represent me to the draft board, and I had to explain why I might qualify as a conscientious objector. objector. I explained that I did not have a history of religious affiliation. My mother was Jewish, my father Catholic. To give me any ethical understanding, I was raised Democrat. So I'm quite happy to accept other people's versions of God. But I found in a Protestant theologian named Paul Tillich a sentence that said if you have trouble with the word God take whatever is central and most meaningful to your life and call that God And to me that was life itself. The complexity, the biodiversity, the incredible integration and complexity of nature to me seemed to be the same thing as God. and so I prepared an explanation that was probably so unusual that it found the edge of a desk and had a lot of things piled on top of it because it didn't fit a niche. They never got back to me, basically. The draft board never got back to me. You grew up in Chicago. Would you describe the neighborhood? I lived in a neighborhood of apartment buildings, four-story apartment buildings. My father was working in advertising. We were comfortable, middle-class kind of environment. My father was a radio actor at a certain point in his life. He did a show on the vaudeville circuit with four or five other guys in a show that was called Gangbusters. And they did a different radio play each week and traveled the vaudeville circuit, stood around a microphone in tuxedos, and did a radio play. That was his theatrical career. He later did a bit of writing and then became a producer and director of television commercials. Wow. Any ones I'd recognize? Each weekend, because of my father's job, we would go to the Lincoln Park Zoo, where he was in charge of doing live commercials for Kenneration dog food. and uh so i would go with my dad and uh i'd spend time with um marlon perkins who is the oh who ran the lincoln park zoo and had a program called zoo parade which was on every saturday so i got behind the scenes um tours of uh the animal enclosures and might have been a part of my sensitizing to nature. I think it is. What I want to do now is play a speech when you got the SAG, the Screen Actors Guild, Lifetime Achievement Award. And it was a very moving speech. So this is an excerpt of it. I mean, this is very recent. In my third year of college, I was a little lost. I was failing at school. I felt isolated, alone. And then I found the company of people putting on plays. Storytellers. People I once thought were misfits and geeks turned out to be my people. I found a calling, a life in storytelling, and an identity in pretending to be other people. The work I do with other actors is one of the great joys of my life. My career is built on their work, as well as the work of writers, directors, and every single cast member, every crew member I've ever been on the set with. I've had incredible collaborators at every step of the way. And being able to deliver the work we create together to an audience is an honor and a privilege. And because of that privilege, I've come to know myself. You were tearing up during that speech. Were you prepared for that? Um, no. No. Not really. I was trying not to do that. Why were you trying not to do it? Just because I wanted to convey an idea I didn't want to posture. So you said on that that you thought that the theater people were misfits and geeks, but they turned out to be your people. What made you think of them as misfits and geeks? Oh, just ignorance. Stupidity. I wasn't a student athlete. I wasn't involved in student government. I didn't find a place in the college culture environment. I was just mischaracterizing people that I didn't really know. that speech that I wrote was not crafted to be emotional it just happened to me and I feel slightly embarrassed by it because I have enough experience with these things to want to be able to manage not to be overcome It was nice to see you be overcome because you were feeling it. You were feeling it for real. It didn't sound like a phony, you know, a phony award address where you express all these feelings that sound kind of. They can sometimes sound a little, you know, excessive or, you know, not deeply felt at the moment. Yours felt deeply felt at the moment. and people really responded to it. And people are very generous to me. My guest is Harrison Ford, and he's now starring in the series Shrinking, which is streaming on Apple TV. We'll be right back. This is Fresh Air. This message comes from Wise, the app for international people using money around the globe. You can send, spend, and receive in up to 40 currencies with only a few simple taps. Be smart. Get wise. Download the Wise app today or visit wise.com. T's and C's apply. So you were in season 18 of Gunsmoke and it had like two more seasons after that. You weren't a regular. You were on, I think, two episodes. So this is in the 1970s already. And there were two more seasons after that. Did you grow up watching Gunsmoke? Not really, because my dad did television commercials. We had the first TV in our neighborhood. And I remember watching Ed Sullivan and shows like that. And I'm sure we did. I don't know if Gunsmoke was on at the time. I think it was Gene Autry that I was seeing on television. I like Gene Autry more because it has songs in it he sang and he was a singing he was a singing cowboy unlike James Arnaz. so in the episode that I'm going to play a clip from you were one of the villains you were one of the bad guys coming in gunning from Marshall Dillon who was out of town and you know you're threatening people you're robbing people you and your gang you're taking over the town and you stop in the saloon where you know Miss Kitty who owns the saloon in Dodge City she's always there and of course she's there when you come in and uh you and another of the villains are just kind of like taunting her and um so miss kitty is played by amanda blake and she speaks first name's kitty russell my place hey miss russell you happen to have a pack of cards around this here fancy house All right, come on, let's get to bitten. All right, so that's you. Oh, really? Wow. You don't recognize your voice? I don't remember any of it. It's temporary amnesia. I see. To protect yourself. Yeah. I'd have good reason. So you lost two teeth in gun smoke, one of your early injuries. What happened? I was supposed to be a bad guy, and the sheriff was walking up the stairs. I guess I'm trying to remember now, and I was shooting out the window, and I turned and saw the sheriff, and shots were exchanged. And what happened was as I fell to the ground wounded, the gun dropped and then bounced up and hit me in the teeth and knocked out several of my teeth right in the front of my mouth. I was under contract to Universal at the time and so I went to their dentist the studio dentist and he fixed up my teeth and within about two months they started they started falling apart and I the studio didn't do anything about it So I called his office and apparently the dentist that had worked on me had left the practice and his partner confessed he had no knowledge of where he'd gone. So I was stuck with teeth that were falling out of my mouth, and I had to pay for my own replacements. Oh even though the studio had hired the dentist you had to pay for his shoddy work Yeah Nice Yeah So you worked for a couple of studios before them or you breaking the contract which you always say was a good thing because they were hardly paying you anything and they would have been hardly paying you anything for seven years because you had like a seven-year contract. And that's when you started working with like Spielberg and Coppola and George Lucas. and what's interesting to me about that among many other things is that you had bad experiences at studios and they're three of the people who created alternate studios you know and and they had this vision that they didn't have to work with the existing studios they could form their own production companies in their own studios do you think about that a lot about how that was like the start of something brand new and you were a part of it? Yeah, I do. I don't think of it often, but I mean, I recognize that there was a change happening and that these guys were becoming important to the business overall. It was exciting at the time to be even a small part of what was happening. My guest is Harrison Ford, and he's now starring in the series Shrinking, which is streaming on Apple TV. We'll be right back. This is Fresh Air. This message comes from WISE, the app for international people using money around the globe. You can send, spend, and receive in up to 40 currencies with only a few simple taps. Be smart. Get wise. Download the Wise app today or visit wise.com. T's and C's apply. So after being an episodic TV like Gunsmoke and The Virginian, anything like the FBI? Was that one of them? Oh, there were lots. Yeah, yeah. So then you've got the part in American Graffiti where you're somebody who, like, loves to race cars. And it's not a big part, but it's a significant part. And American Graffiti kind of tangentially led to Star Wars. You were a carpenter in between because you weren't getting enough work. So you were working for Coppola as a carpenter doing something in his home or his office. Well, actually, I was working for Dean Tavalaris, who was Francis's art director. And Francis had moved into new offices at Goldman Studios, and Dean had designed an entrance to the offices, and the studio mill or wood shop had made all the pieces for this entrance. and Dean needed somebody to install it. And so he asked me if I would do him a favor because he couldn't find a carpenter to get it installed. I said that I would do the job. I'd be happy to do the job. But I only wanted to work at night because I didn't want to confuse the people in the office about whether I was a carpenter or an actor. You went to carpentry to be your side gig. You were an actor. Yeah. Well, I wanted them to think of me as an actor, not to think of me as a carpenter. So I was there sweeping up. I was just finishing the job when George Lucas walked in with Richard Dreyfuss, who had been in American Graffiti. we had all of us who had been in American Graffiti had been told that we would not be considered for Star Wars because George wanted new faces. And here he is having the first interview with Richard Dreyfuss and I'm standing there in my carpenter's work belt sweeping up the floor. But it turned out to be a fortuitous occasion because weeks later I would end up being asked if I would do them a favor and read with the other actors who were being considered for the parts. So you'd just be feeding them the lines. That's right. But he was auditioning your partner, not you. That's correct. I never was told that I was ever to be considered. And then at the end of the process, I guess they ended up with two groups of three people that were in final consideration. And I've always been amused that in the second group, the character of Han Solo would have been played by Chris Walken. Oh. I would have loved to see that. Oh, God. That's so interesting. He's one of my favorite actors. He's so great. His lines readings are so unusual. Yeah. So you were surprised you got the part? Yeah. Thrilled. So I'm going to play a clip just so we get in the moment. So this is a scene from Star Wars, the first one, in which Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and you as Han Solo, along with Chewbacca, are on the Death Star. And R2-D2 and C-3PO are there with you as well. And where you find out that Princess Leia is being held in detention and is likely to be killed. And the person, the android, breaking the news to you is C-3PO, who is portrayed by Anthony Daniels. They're gonna execute her. Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured. Now all you want to do is stay? Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind. But they're gonna kill her! Better her than me. She's rich. Rich. Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be... One. Well, more wealth than you can imagine. I don't know. I can imagine quite a bit. You'll get it. All right. So what's your reaction to hearing that? It seems like a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Right. Did the script make sense to you without being able to visualize Chewbacca or R2-D2 or C-3PO or the special effects? You just got what's called the sides, like your part, and you didn't have a larger context, so it was probably hard to actually have an idea of what the film was like. But when you saw the film for the first time with the special effects and with the androids and with the stirring music behind it, what did you think? I was blown away. I mean, I was really shocked. by the power of the film when I saw it. You know, we shot in England, and our English crew were not used to something like Star Wars. And so they were pretty sure that it was going to be a disaster. and we weren't far from that opinion ourselves, the actors. But it, you know, it did well. Yeah, it did okay. Elton John once asked you if you were going to write a memoir. I think that was after he wrote his. And you, I've read that what you told him was that you didn't want to tell the truth but you don't want to lie. and I thought that was an interesting position to take especially in a time when a lot of people share absolutely everything yeah can you say more about that? well I don't think Elton thought I had had the best answer because he is brutally honest about himself and I'm not prepared to be brutally honest about myself Is it out of self-protection or protecting other people or both? Probably both, yeah. It's just, I just don't think it's anybody's business. Anyway. So is it awkward for you to be interviewed all the time, like in this interview, and have things that are like really private? I've tried to like not invade your privacy. You know, you've been very gracious and it's always a struggle, I think, to know how to control this volume of information about yourself. Well, it's been great to talk with you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming back on our show. Oh, thank you. I really appreciate it. Congratulations on getting Season 4 of Shrinking, and congratulations on the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, and congratulations on giving such a great acceptance speech. You're very kind. Thank you. Harrison Ford co-stars in the series Shrinking. Seasons 1, 2, and 3 are streaming on Apple TV, and it's been renewed for a fourth season. Tomorrow on Fresh Air, we'll talk about how these days more and more Americans are betting on sports, but they're also betting on elections, award shows, and even the removal of foreign leaders. Almost everything. Writer McKay Coppins went inside that gambling world for The Atlantic. He'll share what he found and how it changed his perspective on betting. I hope you'll join us. To keep up with what's on the show and get highlights of our interviews, follow us on Instagram at NPR Fresh Air. Fresh Air's executive producer is Sam Brigger. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Phyllis Myers, Ann Marie Bordenado, Lauren Krenzel, Teresa Madden, Monique Nazareth, Thea Challoner, Susan Yacunde, Anna Bauman, and Nico Gonzalez-Whistler. Our digital media producer is Molly C.V. Nesper. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. Our co-host is Tanya Mosley. I'm Terry Gross.
