This is Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air, and I just talked to Pamela Anderson about her big career comeback after years in the tabloids and not being taken seriously.

She's entered a new era on stage and screen.

Suzanne Summers had a great line. She said, you can't play a dumb blonde and be a dumb blonde.

Find this interview with Pamela Anderson wherever you listen to fresh air.

Hospital shows have been around for so long that it's hard to imagine television without them.

The Max Hospital Drama The Pit stars Hospital Show veteran Noah Wiley. It takes some elements that are

common to the genre and mixes them with some very contemporary thinking about health care

and an inventive structure. Where conventionally constructed hospital dramas bring in a new

load of patients every week and follow long stretches of the lives of doctors and other

staff, the pit does something different. Each episode follows one hour in the ER over the course

of a very long day, so the layout is less gray's anatomy and more 24. I'm Linda Holmes,

and today we're talking about The Pit on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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Here's some news that really stinks. Garbage is responsible for 20% of planet-warming methane

emissions. That's why all week, here and now, is looking at ways people are cutting back on waste.

Robot dogs hiking landfills, textile recyclers melting down old clothes, dumpster divers

scoring big, and builders deconstructing homes instead of demolishing them.

You can hear all that by following our podcast.

It's called Here and Now Anytime.

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