Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program.
Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a “talk show,” it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with “probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights.” And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country’s leading interviewers.
- Chef David Chang On Depression, Being A Dad And The Burden Of 'Authenticity'by Terry Gross on November 25, 2020 at 4:37 pm
Editor's note: This interview mentions suicidal ideations. James Beard Award-winning chef David Chang says fatherhood changed the way he cooks: "I had never been in a position where I'm trying to generally feed someone else with love and I just want to […]
- Remembering Travel Writer And Memoirist Jan Morrisby Terry Gross on November 25, 2020 at 12:38 pm
Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember travel writer, memoirist and historian Jan Morris. She died Friday in her home country of Wales at the age of 94. Until 1972, she was known […]
- Vaccine Expert: Once A COVID Vaccine Is Available, 'Don't Overthink It. Don't Wait'by Terry Gross on November 24, 2020 at 12:53 pm
As coronavirus cases continue to surge both in the U.S . and around the world , there's promising news on the vaccine front. Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer , Moderna and, more recently, AstraZeneca have all announced that their vaccines have shown […]
- 'Waste' Activist Digs Into The Sanitation Crisis Affecting The Rural Poorby Dave Davies on November 23, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Hookworm is an intestinal parasite often associated with poor sewage treatment and the developing world. It was long thought to have been eradicated from the United States — until a 2017 study revealed otherwise. According to the study, more than one in […]
- 'Collective' Chronicles The Nightclub Fire — And Corrupt System — That Killed 64by John Powers on November 23, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The acclaimed new documentary "Collective" is Romania's entry for this year's Academy Awards. The film, which is available on demand and in virtual cinemas, follows […]
- Fresh Air Weekend: President Obama; Revisiting The Chicago 7 Trialby editor on November 21, 2020 at 10:09 am
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts […]
- The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'by Terry Gross on November 20, 2020 at 12:45 pm
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. You may have heard stories about the CIA's secret experiments with LSD, through which '60s counterculture luminaries like Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg were first introduced to the […]
- 'Small Axe': A Searing Portrait Of Racism And A Community's Will To Surviveby Justin Chang on November 20, 2020 at 9:37 am
Steve McQueen has made searingly powerful films about historical injustice, from slavery in the American South to a 1981 hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison. But only now has he dramatized the experiences of Black women and men in the U.K., specifically […]
- Democracy Is 'Strained' But Not 'Broken,' Former President Obama Tells 'Fresh Air'by Terry Gross on November 19, 2020 at 9:01 am
Former President Barack Obama still has faith in the American system. Even as his successor, Donald Trump, refuses to acknowledge defeat in the recent presidential election, Obama maintains: "I don't believe democracy's broken." "We just had record turnout," […]
- 'Alex Rider' Novelist On The Joys Of Reading (And Writing) Mysteriesby editor on November 18, 2020 at 12:45 pm
Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. If you're a fan of the British writer Anthony Horowitz, then November has a lot to offer. His series about teen spy Alex Rider was adapted into a TV series for […]
- National Day Of Mourning; Yuma Homeless Shelter Thanksgiving Mealby NPR on November 25, 2020 at 1:02 pm
- Grasping At Gratitude In 2020; Limiting Kids' Screen Timeby NPR on November 25, 2020 at 12:08 pm
- 'Ready Player Two' Author; Biden's Cabinet Nominationsby NPR on November 24, 2020 at 1:09 pm
- Supply Chains And The Pandemic; A Funeral Director's View Of COVID-19by NPR on November 24, 2020 at 12:06 pm
- Hyperloop's First Human Riders; SUNY Chancellor On Thanksgiving Travelby NPR on November 23, 2020 at 3:32 pm
- Zoom Accessibility; Causes Of Student Loan Debtby NPR on November 23, 2020 at 3:30 pm