Fresh Air
By NPR
Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! You'll enjoy bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening - all while you support NPR's mission. Learn more at plus.npr.org/freshair And subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Fresh Air Weekly, to get interview highlights, staff recommendations, gems from the archive, and the week's interviews and reviews all in one place. Sign up at www.whyy.org/freshair
Episodes (47)
Inside the training camps for “alpha males”
An exposé of the plastic industry
John Lithgow
Julio Torres spins immigrant stress into satire
Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim’s tumultuous life
Arsenio Hall
Comic Jeff Ross on roasting, loss and his epic bar mitzvah
Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’
Inside a mobile OB/GYN clinic
St. Vincent
Best Of: Arsenio Hall / Jeff Ross
Have we been reading Toni Morrison all wrong?
A veteran diplomat breaks down the Iran war
Amanda Peet
Palestinian & Israeli activists share a vision of peace
John Waters, 'Pope of Trash,' turns 80!
Best Of: Actor Amanda Peet / Re-examining Toni Morrison
Malala Yousafzai
Actor Oscar Isaac is ‘a vulture’ of his own life
Inside Linda McMahon's effort to dismantle the Dept. of Education
The spy network that took on America's Nazi groups
‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway
Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac
Nick Offerman gets an emotional arc
Flea’s wild path from childhood to Chili Peppers
How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters
Richard Gadd is looking at the ‘dangers of repression’
Remembering symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Best Of: Flea / Nick Offerman
Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s path from ‘Backtalker’ to legal scholar
How Silicon Valley has profited by aligning with MAGA
Nathan Lane is being tested (and he loves it)
Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, from ‘RENT’ to ‘Hamilton’
Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'
Inside a journalist’s year of using AI for (almost) everything
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
How Trump increased China's global power
Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir
Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe
Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run
Through loss, Jesmyn Ward will always return to the word
The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement
Rose Byrne
Best Of: Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s childhood on the run / Writer Jesmyn Ward
Stephen Colbert / Remembering MA Rep. Barney Frank
Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd
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