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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.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/freshairAnd 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

  1. 9 HR. AGO

    Connie 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 boys club of her industry, her marriage to Maury Povitch, and the big scoops of her career. The funny and off-the-cuff news icon spoke with Tonya Mosley. Also, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers musicians who died this year. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    48 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Jeremy 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 The Apprentice. The movie, he says, "explores essentially how Trump was made, and his philosophical moral framework." Strong talks with Terry Gross about playing Cohn and about playing Kendall Roy on HBO's Succession. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    46 min

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

    The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes American folk music forever. Edward Norton plays folk icon Pete Seeger, who had a big impact on Dylan. Seeger was famous for his songs about working people, unions, and social justice. We're revisiting Terry's 1984 interview with Seeger, as well as her 2016 interview with Bruce Springsteen, who was compared to Dylan when he broke onto the scene. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    47 min

  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    David Byrne's Christmas Playlist

    The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — including songs by The Pogues, James Brown, LCD Soundsystem and Paul Simon. Find his playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. Also, our film critic Justin Chang shares his list of the best movies of 2024. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    49 min

  5. 3 DAYS AGO

    Jon Batiste, Holiday Edition / Questlove Christmas

    Jon Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. It's part two of our recent session with him. Batiste is the former band leader and music director for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He's won multiple Grammys and an Oscar. Inviting musicians to perform or play recordings of their favorite Christmas songs is a new Fresh Air tradition. It started two years ago, with DJ and co-founder of the Roots, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who put together a playlist of Christmas songs and talked us through his picks. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    49 min

  6. 5 DAYS AGO • FRESH AIR+ ONLY

    A Weird, Wonderful John Waters Christmas (Fresh Air+)

    Filmmaker John Waters is the "King of Bad Taste," but that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy a fun Christmas tune here at the tail end of the calendar year. Granted, his Christmas carol choices aren't necessarily what you might usually hear on the radio at your family holiday gathering, but in this charming conversation from 20 years ago, Waters shares his favorite Christmas traditions, tunes and more. Listen to John Waters in 2004: https://n.pr/4ivXOgj | Listen to John Waters in 1981: https://n.pr/4iGNguX | Listen to John Waters in 1983: https://n.pr/3Vyfj5M | Listen to John Waters in 1985: https://n.pr/41JtHMv | Listen to John Waters in 1986: https://n.pr/3ZpJZHr | Listen to John Waters in 1988: https://n.pr/41vTYOd | Listen to John Waters in 1988: https://n.pr/3ZreDQE | Listen to John Waters in 1990: https://n.pr/4f93qdh | Listen to John Waters in 1994: https://n.pr/4g70Ju2 | Listen to John Waters in 1998: https://n.pr/4iGOAxV | Listen to John Waters in 2000: https://n.pr/3ZujMHx | Listen to John Waters in 2003: https://n.pr/4fdPHSu | Listen to John Waters in 2007: https://n.pr/4fb1Szq | Listen to John Waters in 2009: https://n.pr/49saG2C | Listen to John Waters in 2010: https://n.pr/49srrLi | Listen to John Waters in 2014: https://n.pr/3ZI9dCd | Listen to John Waters in 2019: https://n.pr/4f9DChj | Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.

    36 min

  7. 6 DAYS AGO

    Best Of: Billie Eilish & Finneas / The Colbert Cookbook

    Award-winning sister-brother duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell talk about their songwriting process, her changing voice, and their new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. Later, Stephen Colbert and his wife Evie McGee Colbert talk about their cookbook of home recipes inspired by their South Carolina roots. It's called Does This Taste Funny? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    49 min

  8. DEC 20

    Bonnie Raitt / Francis Ford Coppola

    This month, musician Bonnie Raitt and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola were both honorees of the Kennedy Center for their contributions to American culture. We're revisiting interviews with both of them. First, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Bonnie Raitt spoke with Terry Gross in 1996 about her early years, finding her blues sound. And Francis Ford Coppola told us in 2016 the story of casting Marlon Brando in The Godfather. And film critic Justin Chang reviews two new movies: The Brutalist and Nickel Boys. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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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.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/freshairAnd 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

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    NPR
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2024
  • Episodes
    1K
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    © Copyright 2015-2021 WHYY - For Personal Use Only
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