Fresh Air Podcast Episodes featuring Tan France

Best Of: The CIA's Search For Mind Control / Tan France Of 'Queer Eye'

Fresh Air - September 14, 2019 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
Stephen Kinzer's book, 'Poisoner in Chief,' exposes how CIA scientist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against enemies of the U.S. government. Gottlieb believed the key to mind control was LSD, and is credited wi...

Tan France Of 'Queer Eye'

Fresh Air - September 11, 2019 20:26 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
France, the son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, says he almost turned down the job of fashion expert in the Netflix series 'Queer Eye.' "The thought of being one of the very first openly gay South Asian men on a major show. ...That pressure was so hard to handle," he says. But then he thought it ...