Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network.
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. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.
Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR.
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In the new season of The White Lotus, Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a woman "on the precipice of change" as she straddles the line between guest and staffer. -
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has a new period drama, set in 1880s London and featuring a cast of tough, yet vulnerable characters trying to outwit and outlast competing criminal elements.
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Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book. -
DOGE has eliminated thousands of federal jobs and canceled more than 1,000 contracts. Harvard professor Elizabeth Linos warns, "We're seeing harms that are not going to be easily undone."
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Rupert Murdoch and his oldest kids are battling over who controls his media empire when the 93-year-old dies. The Atlantic writer McKay Coppins explains the stakes and how it could change Fox News.
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Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.
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Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier. -
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In Netflix's six-part political thriller, a crippling attack on American communications and infrastructure leads to abuse of power, political overreach and questionable decisions.
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Scott (aka the "hot priest" from Fleabag) is nominated for a SAG Award for his portrayal of a con man in the Netflix adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Originally broadcast April, 8, 2024.
