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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: Fran Lebowitz; The Legacy Of Activist William Monroe Trotter

January 16, 2021

Lebowitz's Pretend It's A City is the NYC trip you can't take right now. Kevin Whitehead reviews Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script. Historian Kerri Greenidge tells Trotter's story in Black Activist.

Fresh Air Weekend: Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta; Philippine Journalist Maria Ressa

January 9, 2021

CNN's chief medical correspondent says it's never too late to develop new brain pathways. Maureen Corrigan reviews Outlawed, by Anna North. Ressa discusses Rodrigo Duterte's authoritarian presidency.

Fresh Air Weekend: Nina Totenberg; 'Watchmen' Writer Cord Jefferson

January 2, 2021

NPR's legal correspondent has spent decades covering major shifts in the Supreme Court. Watchmen writer Jefferson uses sci-fi and superheroes to examine American racism.

Fresh Air Weekend: The Best TV, Music And Movies Of 2020; Remembering Jazz Legends

December 26, 2020

David Bianculli shares his list of TV shows that brought us together. Ken Tucker recommends his top albums. Justin Chang pairs his movie picks. Kevin Whitehead remembers jazz stars who died in 2020.

Fresh Air Weekend: Riz Ahmed; Best Books Of 2020; Rock Photographer Bob Gruen

December 19, 2020

Ahmed plays a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal. Maureen Corrigan shares her book picks for the year. Gruen has photographed countless rock stars, including John Lennon and Tina Turner.

Fresh Air Weekend: Kate Winslet; Loudon Wainwright III And Vince Giordano

December 12, 2020

Winslet says she wanted to portrays a same-sex love story "wtihtout fear or secrecy" in Ammonite. Loudon Wainwright III and Vince Giordano play from the "Great American Songbook."

Fresh Air Weekend: Hugh Grant; The Sanitation Crisis Affecting The Rural Poor

December 5, 2020

Grant, co-star of The Undoing, embraces the "blessed relief" of darker roles. Justin Chang reviews Ammonite. Waste author Catherine Coleman Flowers discusses the gaps in sanitation in rural America.

Fresh Air Weekend: Chef David Chang; Actor Gillian Anderson

November 28, 2020

Chang talks about cooking, fatherhood and his new memoir, Each a Peach. Kevin Whitehead reviews the documentary Collective. Anderson plays Margaret Thatcher on The Crown.

Fresh Air Weekend: President Obama; Revisiting The Chicago 7 Trial

November 21, 2020

Obama says democracy has been "strained" — but not broken — by President Trump. Justin Chang reviews Small Axe. Author Jon Wiener says the Chicago 7 trial reflected "all the conflicts in America."

Fresh Air Weekend: Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe; The Science Of Smell

November 14, 2020

Rapinoe reflects on on equal pay and patriotism. Maureen Corrigan reviews We Keep the Dead Close, by Becky Cooper. Nose Dive author McGee talks about how our sense of smell affects taste.
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