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Fresh Air

 

Hosted By Terry Gross

Daily Magazine of contemporary arts and issues known for captivating interviews with guests from literature, science, music, film, and more, hosted by Terry Gross.

Schedule

Monday – Thursday, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. – 9 p.m., Friday, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
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FA | Author Interviews

Novelist Emma Straub asks life's big questions in 'This Time Tomorrow'

May 23, 2022

Straub's new novel is a time-travel fantasy about a 40-year-old woman who's tending to her ailing father — until, that is, the day she's transported to her childhood home on her 16th birthday.

FA | Movie Reviews

'Top Gun: Maverick' is ridiculous. It's also ridiculously entertaining

May 23, 2022

Tom Cruise was in his early 20s when he first played the cocky young Navy pilot with the need for speed. Now, 36 years later, he's back — and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is as insubordinate as ever.

FA | Fresh Air Weekend

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.

FA | TV Reviews

'American Dream' documentary examines George Carlin's triumphs and demons

May 20, 2022

Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" act ignited an obscenity case in the '70s. We listen back to two archival interviews with the late comedian, and David Bianculli reviews a new HBO documentary about him.

FA | Music Reviews

Max Roach's 1960 landmark 'We Insist!' proves timeless in a reissue

May 20, 2022

Roach's album was recently named to the National Recording Registry, a roster of works deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant; We Insist! scores in all three categories.

FA | Religion

A divide between the pulpit and the pew is roiling the evangelical church

May 19, 2022

New York Times journalist Ruth Graham says many pastors are being pressured to resist vaccines and mask mandates, embrace Trump's claims about election fraud and adopt QANON-based conspiracy theories.

FA | Book Reviews

These 4 novels will get your summer off to a terrific start

May 19, 2022

Book critic Maureen Corrigan has been diving into lighter literary novels and mysteries, searching for books suited for the beginning of summer. Here are some of her picks.

FA | Race

Biography examines how systemic racism shaped the troubled life of George Floyd

May 18, 2022

Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020. Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa reconstruct the course of his life in His Name is George Floyd.

FA | On Aging

After a stroke blinded one eye, Frank Bruni focused on the future

May 17, 2022

The New York Times columnist says the stroke forced him to choose: He could focus on what had been lost, or on what remained. His memoir is The Beauty of Dusk. Originally broadcast March 22, 2022.

FA | Author Interviews

This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity

May 16, 2022

In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

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