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Fresh Air Weekend

 

Everything you love about Fresh Air — tailored for Saturday and Sunday.

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Sunday, 10 p.m. – 11 p.m.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Novelist Mat Johnson; Comic Joel Kim Booster

July 2, 2022

Johnson's novel, Invisible Things, is set on one of Jupiter's moons. Nick Quah takes stock of some podcasts that draw on reality TV. Booster's film Fire Island was inspired by Pride and Prejudice.

Fresh Air Weekend: The sensory world of animals; Mothering as social change

June 25, 2022

Ed Yong talks about the diversity of perception in the animal world. Justin Chang reviews Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Cha Cha Real Smooth. Angela Garbes says raising kids is undervalued.

Fresh Air Weekend: Katy Tur; How racism impacts Black Americans' health

June 18, 2022

Tur revisits her high-flying childhood — and the hurt that lingers. 1619 Project journalist Linda Villarosa lays bare why Black Americans "live sicker and die quicker" than their white counterparts.

Fresh Air Weekend: Comic Sam Jay; Basketball coach Dawn Staley

June 11, 2022

Jay's PAUSE series captures the vibe of a house party debate among friends. Justin Chang reviews Crimes of the Future. Staley says her basketball path was inspired by the Sixers.

Fresh Air Weekend: David Sedaris; Political divides in the evangelical church

June 4, 2022

Sedaris talks about his troubled relationship with his dad. Ken Tucker reviews Kendrick Lamar's new album. Journalist Ruth Graham says evangelical pastors are facing pressure from the pews.

Fresh Air Weekend: Sarah Silverman; Poet Diana Goetsch

May 28, 2022

Silverman's 2010 memoir The Bedwetter has been adapted into a musical. Maureen Corrigan recommends novels for summer. Goetsch chronicles her later-in-life transition in the memoir This Body I Wore.

Fresh Air Weekend: George Floyd's life; The queer history of an NYC women's prison

May 21, 2022

Biographers Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa discuss Floyd's life. David Bianculli reviews George Carlin's American Dream. Hugh Ryan details the queer history of the Women's House of Detention.

Fresh Air Weekend: Actor Rosie Perez; British 'Office' co-creator Stephen Merchant

May 14, 2022

Perez explains why she nearly turned down the role in The Flight Attendant. Maureen Corrigan reviews Trust, by Hernan Diaz. Merchant discusses his latest series, The Outlaws.

Fresh Air Weekend: Actor Alexander Skarsgård; Comedy writer Jessi Klein

May 7, 2022

Skarsgård plays a Viking berserker in The Northman. Ken Tucker reviews Bonnie Raitt's new album, Just Like That.. Klein reflects on new motherhood in I'll Show Myself Out.

Fresh Air Weekend: Tim McGraw; CNN actor Zain Asher

April 30, 2022

McGraw stars with his wife Faith Hill in 1883, a series about immigrants traveling West in covered wagons. Asher writes about the tragedy that shaped her life in Where the Children Take Us.
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