Best Of: Tim McGraw / Zain Asher

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Country music singers McGraw and Faith Hill star in the Paramount+ series 1883. The show tells the story of a group of Eastern European immigrants trying to make their way in covered wagons from Texas to Oregon. We talk with McGraw about the series and learning about his birth father, MLB pitcher Tug McGraw.

When CNN international anchor Zain Asher was 5, her father died in a car accident in Nigeria. Asher's new memoir, Where the Children Take Us, is largely about her mother's remarkable life – surviving poverty, genocide and civil war in Nigeria, then raising four children in a struggling neighborhood in London, and giving them the skills, resilience and determination to be successful in life.

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0:00.0	From WHY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:05.1	I'm Dave Davies and for Terry Gross.
0:07.8	Today, country music star Tim McGraw.
0:10.6	He's been making top-selling albums since the 90s, and lately, his acting is getting
0:14.9	attention.
0:15.9	He stars with his wife Faith Hill in the Western TV series 1883.
0:20.8	McGraw will tell us about learning at age 11 that his real father wasn't the truck driver.
0:25.5	His mom had divorced, but a famous athlete, big league pitcher Tug McGraw.
0:30.8	Also we hear from CNN International Anchor Zane Asher.
0:34.3	When she was five, living with her family in London, her mother got a call informing her
0:38.6	that her husband and son, on a road trip in Nigeria, had been in a terrible car accident.
0:44.6	She was told her husband or her son had survived, but the caller didn't know which.
0:50.0	That story opens Asher's new memoir, which is largely about her mother's remarkable life.
0:59.5	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
1:01.0	I'm Dave Davies and for Terry Gross.
1:03.9	Our first guest, Tim McGraw, has been one of the biggest stars in country music for years.
1:09.7	But lately, it's an acting role that's getting a lot of attention.
1:13.0	He stars with his wife, singer Faith Hill, and Sam Elliott in the Western TV series on Paramount
1:18.4	Plus called 1883.
1:21.1	It tells the story of a large group of Eastern European immigrants trying to make their way
1:25.2	and covered wagons from Texas to Oregon to start new lives.
1:29.6	They know little about horses, wagons, or America, and they're led in the journey by experienced
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