Fresh Air
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, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid
Eisenberg's film, A Real Pain, follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes...
EscucharMLK, The Organizer & Radical Thinker
NYT columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflect on the struggle...
EscucharBest Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.
Writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a 1990 California wildfire. After being rendered homeless and sleeping...
EscucharThe True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen....
EscucharThe Secret History Of The Rape Kit
Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells...
EscucharHow Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence
In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he...
EscucharCan The U.S. Aquire Greenland? & Other Q's About Trump Foreign Policy
In the past, Donald Trump talked about keeping America out of foreign conflicts — but lately he's...
EscucharRoy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism
A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," Roy Wood Jr. says. In his new Hulu...
EscucharBest Of: Tilda Swinton / Adrien Brody
Tilda Swinton stars as a woman with cancer who decides she wants to end her life in the new Pedro Almodóvar...
EscucharJoan Baez / Suze Rotolo / Al Kooper On Dylan
A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan is in theaters. We're featuring interviews with three...
EscucharRemembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)
The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns...
EscucharTilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death
In Pedro Almodóvar's film The Room Next Door, Tilda Swinton plays a woman with late-stage cancer who...
EscucharAdrien Brody Was Made For 'The Brutalist'
Adrien Brody won a Golden Globe for his role in The Brutalist, as a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust...
EscucharGetting In Sync With Your Inner Clock
In an experiment, science journalist Lynne Peeples spent 10 days in an underground bunker, with no exposure...
EscucharBest Of: Comic Ronny Chieng / Writer Miranda July
After Trevor Noah started anchoring The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Ronny Chieng as a field correspondent...
EscucharComic Nikki Glaser On Roasts & Hurt Feelings
The comic is hosting the Golden Globes this Sunday. She spoke with Terry Gross back in July about roasts,...
EscucharAlex Van Halen / Selena Gomez
We continue our series featuring some of our favorite interviews from 2024, this time with Alex Van...
EscucharSterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...
EscucharMark Ruffalo Hates The Hulk Suit
Ruffalo played a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. It was a big departure...
EscucharRemembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)
Jimmy Carter died Sunday at age 100. The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross a few times over the...
EscucharMaggie Rogers / Kathleen Hanna
In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music entirely....
EscucharConnie Chung Regrets Being A Good Girl
This year TV news journalist Connie Chung wrote a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the...
EscucharJeremy Strong Sees Acting As An Escape From Self
Jeremy Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn in...
EscucharPete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen
The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes American...
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