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Sondheim, who turned 90 on March 22, composed the music and lyrics for Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Companyand other shows. He spoke about his career in musical theater in this 2010 interview.

Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor started the podcast Ear Hustlewhen Woods was a prisoner in San Quentin. Woods' sentence was recently commuted, but the two continue to tell stories of life behind bars.

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life,told Fresh Airin 2017. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game."

Playwright Tarell McCraney and filmmaker Barry Jenkins drew on their childhood experiences in making Moonlight,about a boy growing up in a Miami housing project. Originally broadcast Oct. 19, 2016.

Rickles, who died yesterday, mined racial, ethnic and religious stereotypes for laughs. "I crossed the line when nobody else could do it," he once said. Originally broadcast in 2008, 1998 and 2007.

Teachers, a fisherman, stay-at-home moms, an off-duty police officer. Here's what we've learned about everyone who died in Sunday's massacre.

After the sudden death of his first wife in April 2016, Oswalt felt his life slipping away. But over the past year, things took a turn. Originally broadcast Nov. 27, 2017.

We listen to archival interviews with Michael Collins, of Apollo 11; Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield; and Chuck Yeager, who first broke the sound barrier.

Very few people will ever visit the ocean's depths. This hour, Ira Flatow talks with a few who have, like divers Sylvia Earle and John McCosker, who've discovered flashing fish and spotted sharks in the deep. And filmmaker James Cameron joins to discuss his dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Since the 2012 election, Republican strategists and leaders have called for changes in the party's approach to voters. Some argue that the GOP must appeal to younger and more diverse demographics or risk losing congressional seats next November.