Fresh Air
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Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley features in-depth conversations exploring a wide variety of popular culture, news and issues. The show sets the standard for long form audio interviews.
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Produced by WHYY and presented by NPR, Fresh Air is one of public media’s most popular programs. For over 35 years, co-executive producer and host Terry Gross has engaged in conversations with newsmakers to open windows into their hearts, minds and work. A regular contributor since 2021, award-winning public media journalist Tonya Mosley was named co-host of Fresh Air in April 2023.
Latest Episodes
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Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.
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Burns' PBS documentary includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans, and enslaved and free Black people — all of whom were initially excluded from the declaration "all men are created equal."
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NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. His new memoir is We Survived the Night. Laufey was an "odd fish" in native Iceland. Now she's a jazz-pop star. -
Ethan Hawke stars as lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night his former writing partner, Richard Rodgers, debuts his hit musical Oklahoma!. Blue Moon offers a canny take on professional jealousy.
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Alysia Abbott was raised by a single father at the dawn of the gay liberation era. Sofia Coppola recently adapted Abbott's memoir, Fairyland, to film. Originally broadcast in 2013.
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Rebecca dominates du Maurier's legacy, but she wrote plenty of other macabre novels and short stories. A collection called After Midnight gathers 13 of these tales, with an intro by Stephen King. -
NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night.
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Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, attributes the Gaza deal in part to Trump's transactional nature and breaking of traditional diplomatic crockery.
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Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being.
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David Bianculli offers an appreciation of the Oscar-winning actor, who died Oct. 11. And, we'll hear a '97 interview, in which Keaton reflected on her "lucky break" of landing a role in The Godfather.
