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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, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! You'll enjoy bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening - all while you support NPR's mission. Learn more at plus.npr.org/freshairAnd 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

  1. What Encouraged Elliot Page And Lucy Sante To Come Out As Trans (Fresh Air+)

    1 HR. AGO · BONUS • FRESH AIR+ ONLY

    What Encouraged Elliot Page And Lucy Sante To Come Out As Trans (Fresh Air+)

    Elliot Page and Lucy Sante are two trans creatives at different stages in their personal journeys, but the combined narrative of their respective coming out stories makes for a compelling and reflective listen. In this bonus episode, co-host Tonya Mosley hears from both guests about their lives, identities and futures. Listen to Elliot Page in 2023: https://n.pr/4hj6WDA Listen to Lucy Sante in 2024: https://n.pr/3UPdzoU | Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.

    38 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Best Of: Jesse Eisenberg / Pamela Anderson

    Jesse Eisenberg talks about writing, directing and starring in the film A Real Pain. Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who go to Poland on a Jewish Heritage Tour. One of the stops is the Majdanek death camp. He spoke with Terry Gross about questions the film raises. Also, we hear from Pamela Anderson. In the new film, The Last Showgirl, she stars as a veteran Vegas dancer who must face the end of her legendary show. She talked with Tonya Mosley about her big career comeback. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    49 min

  3. 1 DAY AGO

    Remembering David Lynch

    Filmmaker and painter David Lynch died January 15 at age 78. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1994 about making his surrealist first movie, Eraserhead, leaving things up for interpretation, and where he finds inspiration. Also, we'll hear from Isabella Rossellini who starred in Lynch's Blue Velvet as a nightclub singer, and Nicolas Cage, who worked with him in Wild At Heart. And our TV critic David Bianculli shares an appreciation. Also, Justin Chang reviews the new film supernatural thriller Presence. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    47 min

  4. 2 DAYS AGO

    Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

    Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux says the Trump family's new crypto businesses have earned them tens of millions, while raising questions about political influence and ethics. Also, we remember Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter Jules Feiffer. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    44 min

  5. 3 DAYS AGO

    Pamela Anderson Is Still Reinventing Herself

    Pamela Anderson's role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the '90s. But she longed to be taken seriously as a performer and person. "I've always been carrying this secret. I feel like I've known I was capable of more, but I didn't know what," she says. She now stars in The Last Showgirl. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her career comeback, crafting her persona, and ditching makeup. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    45 min

  6. 4 DAYS AGO

    Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

    Eisenberg's film, A Real Pain, follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp. Eisenberg spoke with Terry Gross about tragedy tourism, and his own relationship to Judaism. The "Hebrew school dropout" says the suburban bar mitzvah scene made his 12-year-old stomach turn. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    44 min

  7. 6 DAYS AGO

    MLK, The Organizer & Radical Thinker

    NYT columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office. "Perhaps the juxtaposition of seeing Donald Trump preside over the official state memorialization of Martin Luther King will remind us of our responsibility to remembering King as he actually was ... as he was a philosopher, an organizer of the people," Cottom says. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

    45 min
  8. What Scared Activist Tarana Burke When Her #MeToo Movement First Went Viral (FA+)

    JAN 19 · BONUS • FRESH AIR+ ONLY

    What Scared Activist Tarana Burke When Her #MeToo Movement First Went Viral (FA+)

    Now that co-host Tonya Mosley has been in the chair for a few years, she's got an archive of her own, and new reason to show up here in your bonus episode feed. Tonya's first interview for Fresh Air was with #MeToo activist Tarana Burke, whose phrase of inclusion and solidarity went unexpectedly viral more than a decade after she first came up with it. Burke spoke about her approach to trauma and the power of survivors. Listen to Tarana Burke in 2021: https://n.pr/4h0mbBm Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.

    29 min
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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, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! You'll enjoy bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening - all while you support NPR's mission. Learn more at plus.npr.org/freshairAnd 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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  • Years Active
    2007 - 2025
  • Episodes
    1.1K
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