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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 and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including weekly bonus episodes and curated playlists of archive interviews from Fresh Air.And 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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Remembering Tim Curry
Aug 28, 2026
Actor Tim Curry, best-known for playing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died this week at age 80. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2005 about finding the character’s…
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Fresh Air Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim's Tumultuous Life Review
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Riz Ahmed takes on his inner critic
Aug 27, 2026
In his Prime Video series, Bait, Riz Ahmed plays an actor auditioning to be the next James Bond. Ahmed says Bond is a "symbol of aspiration, this unattainable kind of self" his character is pursuing…
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Dolly Parton
Aug 26, 2026
The beloved country superstar died Tuesday at age 80. Parton spoke with Terry Gross in 2001 about growing up in rural poverty with 11 siblings, leaving for Nashville to become a star, and coming up…
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The story of the world's first super-terrorist
Aug 25, 2026
National security writer Joby Warrick tells the story of “Carlos the Jackal,” the world’s most notorious terrorist of the ‘70s and ‘80s. He became so famous for his brazen attacks and playboy…
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Lisa Kudrow
Aug 24, 2026
Lisa Kudrow is up for two Emmys for the final season of The Comeback, about an actress who will endure almost anything to keep working. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her character’s delusion and…
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Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani
Aug 22, 2026
Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year, for two very different roles: in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in the final season of HBO's Euphoria. He spoke with Tonya Mosley…
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‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh
Aug 21, 2026
The Dog Stars, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Josh Brolin and Jacob Elordi, is about two men who become unlikely compatriots when a pandemic wipes out much of the country's population…
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‘Wonder Man’ star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on cancellation and confidence
Aug 20, 2026
Two weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led…
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Challenges the U.S. military is facing in Iran
Aug 19, 2026
Defense analyst Stacie Pettyjohn says while the U.S. military is facing long-range missile shortages, prolonged deployments, and vacated regional bases, Iran is building cheaper weapons quickly. She…
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Jason Segel is not afraid of the ‘dirty underneath’
Aug 18, 2026
Segel returns to talk with Terry Gross about his Emmy-nominated series Shrinking, in which he plays a therapist who suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of his wife’s death. Segel opens up about…
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What evolution reveals about eating, dieting and fat
Aug 17, 2026
When you’re dieting to lose weight, human evolution is often working against you. We’ll talk about why with Daniel Lieberman, author of Fed Up and founder of Harvard’s Department of Evolutionary…
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Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark
Aug 15, 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to break box office records, after having the biggest U.S. opening weekend in history. Tonya Mosley talks with the film’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton. Long…
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Reckoning with America’s history of slavery
Aug 14, 2026
Poet and writer Clint Smith says we are taught to think of slavery as something that happened a long, long time ago. But then he learned that his grandfather's grandfather had been enslaved. “This…
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Colman Domingo loves a challenge
Aug 13, 2026
Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards for two very different performances — in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in HBO's Euphoria. "I can go very deep with my characters," he tells…
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The race for tech supremacy: The U.S. vs. China
Aug 12, 2026
China produces at least 70% of the world’s drones, electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar cells. And with the U.S. stockpile of munitions diminished from the Iran war, would the U.S. have…
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‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton
Aug 11, 2026
Cretton grew up in Hawaii, and says movies expanded his perspective: “That is how I traveled. That is how I was exposed to other cultures. That's how I understand how kids grew up in high school on…
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Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy
Aug 10, 2026
Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place…
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Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin
Aug 08, 2026
Seven years ago, New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino coined the term “Instagram Face.” Now we talk about how current beauty standards are changing our relationship to reality. “It seems more…
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Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’
Aug 07, 2026
The internationally acclaimed horseman Monty Roberts defied the conventional method of breaking horses and developed his own gentler approach — based on horses' non-verbal language. He died on July…
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Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert
Aug 06, 2026
Claire Vaye Watkins' new novel, 'Yellow Pine,' is about a group of misfits and activists in the Mojave desert, fighting a corporate solar development. Living in the desert is "not for everybody," she…
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How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year
Aug 05, 2026
New York Times reporter Eric Lipton discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations into Trump’s conflicts of interest and whether he’s exploiting the power of the presidency for self-enrichment…
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Jean Smart bids farewell to ‘Hacks’
Aug 04, 2026
The fifth and final season of the HBO comedy series ‘Hacks’ is nominated for 24 Emmys, including one for Smart as best actress in a comedy series. The writers “raised the bar every single season,"…
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Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty
Aug 03, 2026
Historian Micki McElya’s book, ‘Liberation Summer,’ revisits September 1968, when three groups of women converged on the Atlantic City boardwalk: feminists protesting the Miss America Pageant…
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Best Of: ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson / Actor Jon Bernthal
Aug 01, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s new film ‘The Odyssey’ is a box-office hit, but classics scholar Emily Wilson, who translated Homer’s poem from the original text, says the film’s script is abysmally written…
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Remembering Irish singer–songwriter Glen Hansard
Jul 31, 2026
Irish musician Glen Hansard, best-known for his band The Frames and his part in the 2007 film ‘Once,’ died July 29 in a motorcycle crash. He was 56. Hansard got his start busking in the streets of…
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Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him
Jul 30, 2026
Bernthal often plays intense, violent, damaged characters, like Mikey from ‘The Bear’ and Shane from ‘The Walking Dead.’ When talking about himself and his characters, Bernthal says that it’s easy…
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‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson: Nolan should've hired a screenwriter
Jul 29, 2026
Renowned classics scholar Emily Wilson caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the…
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The forces that shape gun culture
Jul 28, 2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘New York Times’ reporter Mike McIntire says gun companies and the NRA are broadening the scope of the Second Amendment, socializing kids to appreciate guns and marketing a new…
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French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom
Jul 27, 2026
Award-winning writer Leïla Slimani grew up in Morocco, where women were second-class citizens, but inside her home and with her family, she was free to speak her mind. Her mother, a doctor, pushed…
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Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig
Jul 25, 2026
At the age of 80, André De Shields is now on Broadway in “CATS: The Jellicle Ball.” He won a Tony in 2019 for his performance in “Hadestown” and co-stars in the new movie of the revival. He talks…
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