{"podcast":{"title":"Fresh Air","slug":"fresh-air-214340","podcast_index_feed_id":214340,"rss_url":"https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444908/fresh-air","image_url":"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/09/23/fresh-air_tile_npr-network-01_sq-9b42f217746df08ce5a26c500024dd979ff94178.jpg?s=1400&c=66&f=jpg","author":"NPR (podcasts@npr.org)","episode_count":300,"summary":"Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! You'll enjoy bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening - all while you support NPR's mission. Learn more at plus.npr.org/freshair And subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Fresh Air Weekly, to get interview highlights, staff recommendations, gems from the archive, and the week's interviews and reviews all in one place. Sign up at www.whyy.org/freshair","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T08:21:33.528133+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fresh-air-214340"},"episode":{"title":"Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir","slug":"remembering-philip-caputo-who-wrote-an-unflinching-vietnam-war-memoir","published_at":"2026-05-15T18:15:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fresh-air-214340/remembering-philip-caputo-who-wrote-an-unflinching-vietnam-war-memoir","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fresh-air-214340","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5823760/remembering-philip-caputo-who-wrote-an-unflinching-vietnam-war-memoir","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/npr.simplecastaudio.com/49850946-31c1-4953-8129-0d718420c400/episodes/501f88f0-1385-4a39-8c45-d0581e6722f3/audio/128/default.mp3?awCollectionId=49850946-31c1-4953-8129-0d718420c400&awEpisodeId=501f88f0-1385-4a39-8c45-d0581e6722f3&feed=jBsBZBHh&t=podcast&e=nx-s1-5823760&p=381444908&d=2806&size=44901443","summary":"Philip Caputo wrote the 1977 acclaimed and unflinching memoir ‘A Rumor of War,’ about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam War. It taught him a painful truth. “I had discovered that I had a capacity to be violent and dark in my actions in a way that totally shocked me,” he told Terry Gross in 2005. He went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Caputo died May 7 at 84. Also, celebrated naturalist and nature documentarian Sir David Attenborough turned 100 this month. We listen back to his 1995 interview with Terry Gross about working in the field. John Powers reviews the new film ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin.’ See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy","meta_description":"Philip Caputo wrote the 1977 acclaimed and unflinching memoir ‘A Rumor of War,’ about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam War. It taught him a pai…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2806,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fresh-air-214340/episodes/remembering-philip-caputo-who-wrote-an-unflinching-vietnam-war-memoir/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fresh-air-214340/remembering-philip-caputo-who-wrote-an-unflinching-vietnam-war-memoir.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}