Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and it often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Two new 'SNL' documentaries celebrate 50 years of music, laughs and insights: In Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, Questlove mines the archive of musical performances, while the four-part series SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night dives into the show's creative process.
Questlove charts 50 years of 'SNL' musical hits (and misses): Questlove's documentary highlights the show's most iconic musical performances and comedy sketches — and addresses the show's "unhummable" theme song.
A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history: Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.
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