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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dakota Johnson, star of the new film The High Note.

The singer-songwriter brings his acoustic guitar to the Fresh Air studio to sing some new songs as well as some of his favorites from the 1920s and '30s. Originally broadcast April 27, 2015.

In the 1960s and '70s, Johnson, who died Jan. 11, played on recordings by Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner and Carla Bley. He also led his own ensembles, including Gravity. Originally broadcast in 1984.

Critic Chris Klimek offers a remembrance of the late illusionist, author and actor Ricky Jay, for whom he worked as a personal assistant over a decade ago.

The British actor plays a grandfather in the new SundanceTV drama series, The A Word, about a family coping with a boy's autism diagnosis. He also co-starred in the HBO series, The Leftovers.

Wainwright and Giordano collaborated on the period music for the series Boardwalk Empire and the film The Aviator. Their new album is I'd Rather Lead a Band. Originally broadcast Dec. 2, 2020.

Jason Smith didn't have any formal culinary training, but he had a dream: to be a Food Network star.

Cafeteria manager Jason Smith didn't have any formal culinary training, but he did have a dream: to be a star. And now he's "happier than possum eating a sweet tater pie."

Though he said he was retiring in 2012, the actor is back in The Foreigner, his first American action movie in seven years. But what he really wants is to "make a drama film without one punch."

Steve Inskeep talks to Panshu Zhao, he is among immigrants who are U.S. Army reservists and recruits promised a path to citizenship for their service but are now being abruptly discharged.