Fresh Air
Monday to Friday at 9 am
Fresh Air features in depth conversations exploring a wide variety of popular culture, news and issues. The show sets the standard for longform audio interviews. Presenting Fresh Air with its second Peabody Award, Stephen Colbert said, “This NPR staple is where many of us come for some of the most insightful interviews anywhere, a place where artists, musicians, actors, directors, playwrights, authors, poets, showrunners [and] talk show hosts, open up about their work, their process and their life.”
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Latest Episodes
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Ryan Gosling plays an astronaut in this derivative, carefully manufactured crowd-pleaser; Project Hail Mary doesn't feel like storytelling so much as mechanical engineering.
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Book Binder, who died March 3, was known for Southern blues and hillbilly music, and great story telling. He recorded with Fresh Air in 1987, playing music and reflecting on his career on the road.
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Mardsen starred in the original Jury Duty, an experimental show about a man who becomes part of a staged fake jury. Now the series is back in a new setting. Originally broadcast May 2, 2023.
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The Grammy-winning singer describes herself as a "53-year-old woman who is maneuvering her career the way she wants to, how she wants to." Scott's new album is To Whom This May Concern. -
Tommy Shelby's estranged son has taken control of the old gang and is making new and dangerous moves and alliances. Cillian Murphy stars in this gripping movie-length Peaky Blinders sequel. -
Spufford's new novel centers a young woman in sexist World War II England as she navigates romance, tries to survive the nightly bombings of the Blitz and fights time-traveling fascists.
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With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, policy expert Karim Sadjadpour says the war in Iran is becoming increasingly complicated: "I don't think President Trump ... understood what he was getting into." -
Biographer Daniel Okrent discusses Sondheim's approach to writing music and lyrics, his often toxic relationship with his mother and his work with mentors and collaborators.
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Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue re-imagines the story of the American West — and the Apache fight for survival — in an epic that's both defiantly challenging and, at times, magical. -
No matter what happens at the Oscars, Lindo says he's embracing "the joy of this moment." Jones' novel Kin tells the story of two young women who grow up next door to each other without their mothers.
