Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross engages in intimate conversations heard by nearly 5 million people on more than 624 NPR stations across the country.
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.
Find out more about the topics and guests on each episode at the program's website here or read below.
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Roots co-founder Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson spins the soundtrack of his life in the memoir, Music is History. White shares his unlikely path to the stage his memoir, I'm Possible. -
While raising her young daughter, Stephanie Land cleaned houses to scrape by. It was back-aching work for low pay. Her memoir inspired the Netflix series, Maid. Originally broadcast Jan. 29, 2019.
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Greg Miller of The Washington Post is part of the team that sifted through millions of documents to reveal how dictators, oligarchs, drug dealers and others hide assets in secret accounts.
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Ridley Scott's epic, which opens in 1386 Paris, tells the story of a duel between a squire of a knight from three points of view — including that of the woman they're fighting over.
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White spent his early childhood in poverty in Baltimore, at times sleeping in abandoned houses. He's now principal tubist in the Santa Fe Symphony and the New Mexico Philharmonic.
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In his new book, Roots co-founder Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson starts in 1971 and moves year-by-year through his life, writing about memories, turning points and the songs he listened to.
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The Rescue follows the 18-day effort to rescue 12 boys and their coach from an underwater cave. Filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin recount the harrowing mission with diver Rick Stanton.
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Eddie Muller's book, Dark City, chronicles film noir from the '40s and '50s. David Bianculli reviews the new Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark. Tucci reflects on his love of food in Taste.
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British singer, songwriter and guitarist Lowe got his start in the '70s pub-rock era. His 2001 album, The Convincer, has been newly remastered and reissued. Originally broadcast in 2001 and 2011.
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Reporting from Kabul, Najibullah Quraishi says the Taliban's vice and virtue squads have reinstituted harsh punishments, including whipping, chopping off hands and even hanging people from cranes.
