Fresh Air

Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is

Episodes

Total: 384

Connie Chung Regrets Being A Good Girl
2024/9/18

TV news journalist Connie Chung has written a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the boys

How Trump Created The Illusion Of Success
2024/9/17

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner spent years investigating the forme

Demi Moore's New Beginning
2024/9/16

In the horror movie The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aging actress who uses a black-marke

Best Of: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover / Comic Taylor Tomlinson
2024/9/14

Journalists Ryan Mac and Kate Conger talk about the chaos Elon Musk created inside Twitter, how Musk

Remembering Actor James Earl Jones
2024/9/13

James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mafusa in The Lion King<

Gearing Up For A Post-Election Legal Fight
2024/9/12

Democrats and Republicans learned from the legal fight over the 2020 elections, New York Times <

How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
2024/9/11

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes. He laid off or fired about 75%

The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs
2024/9/10

Investigative journalist Jessica Pishko says that a growing group of "constitutional sheriffs" have

Taylor Tomlinson Is Ready To Joke About Her Bipolar II. Mostly.
2024/9/9

The After Midnight host was initially unsure about sharing her bipolar II diagnosis on-stag

Best Of: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson / Novelist Danzy Senna
2024/9/7

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's new memoir, Lovely One, gives us a rare glimp

Inside The Making Of 'The Sopranos'
2024/9/6

25 years ago, The Sopranos premiered on HBO and changed expectations of what TV could be. T

The Anti-Fascist Vigilantes Infiltrating White Nationalist Groups
2024/9/5

New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to

SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gets Personal
2024/9/4

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with Tonya Mosley about her teen years, her time a

Danzy Senna Writes Herself (And Other Mixed-Race People) Into Existence
2024/9/3

Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father an

Film Icons: Spike Lee / Samuel L. Jackson
2024/9/2

To wrap up our series, we're closing with director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Lee spoke

Film Icons: Steven Spielberg / Carrie Fisher
2024/8/31

In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love

Film Icons: Clint Eastwood / Eli Wallach & More
2024/8/30

The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a

Film Icons: Dennis Hopper / Isabella Rossellini
2024/8/29

We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and feature archival interviews with Dennis Hop

Film Icons: Meryl Streep / Sidney Poitier
2024/8/28

Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor w

Film Icons: Molly Ringwald / Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins
2024/8/27

We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series with two performers who gained fame as kids: