Our guests on this week’s Fresh Air Weekend are Bradley Cooper, who’s been nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Silver Linings Playbook, and Michael Apted, the director of the ‘Up’ series of documentaries.

Up top, you can check out the cool billboard (that’s our name for the mini-commercial you hear at the very beginning of the show) that Fresh Air Weekend producer, John Sheehan cooked up for this week. 

Coming up on Fresh Air Weekend, Golden Globe-winning director Ben Affleck talks about his Golden Globe-winning film Argo and Dustin Hoffman talks about directing for the first time with Quartet, and about how he is an unattractive man but would have been had he been born a woman.

Affleck also talks about his fondness for doing impressions. And he does a mean Al Pacino as the clip above demonstrates.

Coming up on Fresh Air Weekend: Julian Fellowes on Downton Abbey and the English social classes, historian Bruce Levine on the Civil War and David Bianculli reviews the new season of Girls. Should be good listening for coffee drinking and eggs.

Image courtesy of PBS Masterpiece Theater

Coming up on Fresh Air Weekend, friends: Babs and the Pizzarellis.

Hear a one-minute preview of the weekend show! TGIF!

A Sesame Street clip in honor of this week’s Fresh Air Weekend, which will feature Elmo and Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails.

First podcastable/downloadable episode of Fresh Air Weekend. (An hour of the week’s arts/music highlights.) Enjoy.

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it’s Friday!  Happy weekend everyone!

Our weekend show Fresh Air Weekend is getting it’s very own website starting tomorrow. It will also now be a part of our podcast. (The weekend show highlights our arts/culture coverage during the week. It’s an hour so it’s a way to catch up if you’ve missed a few episodes.) Yay!