Fresh Air Weekend: Scarlett Johansson and June Squibb; Music producer Mark Ronson

October 04, 2025 / 9:11 am

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:

June Squibb explains how she lobbied Scarlett Johansson to direct Eleanor The Great : Johansson and Squibb discuss their new film, about a 94-year-old woman who claims her dead friend's Holocaust story as her own. "It's rare to feel surprised when you read a script," Johansson says.

"I can't stop DJing," Mark Ronson says — never mind the back pain: Ronson's memoir, Nigh

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