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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 and Tonya Mosley, 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/freshair And subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Fresh Air Weekly, to get interview highlig...

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Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim’s tumultuous life

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Episodes (330)

Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim’s tumultuous life

Julio Torres spins immigrant stress into satire

John Lithgow

An exposé of the plastic industry

Inside the training camps for “alpha males”

Former Infowars employee on Alex Jones' conspiracy machine

Best Of: Jill Scott / Riz Ahmed

Remembering Action Hero Chuck Norris

America's first AI-fueled war is unfolding. How'd we get here?

Bryan Stevenson says facing our racist past is a path, not punishment

Will President Trump act on his threat to take Cuba?

Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait'

Best Of: Harrison Ford / Novelist Francis Spufford

‘Jury Duty’ star James Marden / Remembering Roy Book Binder

Jill Scott is in her ‘auntie’ era

The Blitz, romance, and time-traveling fascists

Could the Iran war lead to WWIII?

The tumultuous life of Stephen Sondheim

Best Of: Delroy Lindo / Tayari Jones on ‘Kin’

Benicio del Toro

Inside the explosive growth of sports betting

Harrison Ford

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

The hidden history of blackface in America

Best Of: ‘Hamnet’ star Jessie Buckley / Documentarian Morgan Neville

Remembering pop songwriter Neil Sedaka

Delroy Lindo is claiming victory

From Beatles break-up to John’s murder, a look at Paul’s transformation

A look at Trump's plans to restrict voting

Jessie Buckley loves the ‘shadowy bits’ of her characters

Best Of: Kate Hudson / Stellan Skarsgård

The voice of SpongeBob, Tom Kenny

Is the U.S. headed toward military conflict with Iran?

Stellan Skarsgård doesn’t believe in bad guys

Tayari Jones on friendship, writing, and choosing your ‘Kin’

Kate Hudson

Best Of: The life and legacy of Fela Kuti / Michael Pollan on consciousness

Remembering actor Robert Duvall & filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

Michael Pollan’s journey to understand consciousness

A look at the ethical implications of AI

A daughter's rebellion against a regime and her father

The American Presidency, Redefined

Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone

‘Sinners’ Songwriter Raphael Saadiq

Fela Kuti and the music of political resistance

Excavating the Epstein files

Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’

The Ruby Ridge siege & conspiracy-laced politics in America

Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’

A 50th anniversary celebration of ‘Taxi Driver’