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Fresh Air Weekend: MacFarlane, Zombies, 'Snatchers'

<p>Seth MacFarlane voices several characters on <em>Family Guy</em>, including Brian (left) and Stewie (right) Griffin.</p>
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Seth MacFarlane voices several characters on Family Guy, including Brian (left) and Stewie (right) Griffin.

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

Seth MacFarlane: TV's 'Family Guy' Makes Music, Too: MacFarlane is best known for creating the animated TV shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. But he's also a singer whose new album features songs from the Great American Songbook.

A 'Zone' Full Of Zombies In Lower Manhattan Colson Whitehead's new novel Zone One is a post-apocalyptic tale of a Manhattan crippled by a plague and overrun with zombies. He explains that he created the novel, in part, to pay homage to the grimy 1970s New York of his childhood.

The Sad Lesson Of 'Body Snatchers': People Change Science-fiction writer Jack Finney would have turned 100 this month. Critic Maureen Corrigan says he had a knack for tapping into our shallowly buried psychological anxieties. At its core, Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about how our loved ones inevitably change — and it is as sad as it is scary.

You can listen to the original broadcasts here:

  • Seth MacFarlane: TV's 'Family Guy' Makes Music, Too
  • A 'Zone' Full Of Zombies In Lower Manhattan
  • The Sad Lesson Of 'Body Snatchers': People Change
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