Fresh Air

Produced by WHYY. Monday - Thursday at 2 p.m. on 93.9 FM and AM820, and Monday - Friday at 9 p.m. on AM820.

  • 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. o... Jan 20, 2025

  • The Secret History Of The Rape Kit

    Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells the story of Marty Goddard, a community activist who worked with runaway teenagers ... Jan 16, 2025

  • Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

    A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," Roy Wood Jr. says. In his new Hulu special, Lonely Flowers, Wood riffs on how isolation has sent society spiraling... Jan 13, 2025

  • Best Of: Tilda Swinton / Adrien Brody

    Tilda Swinton stars as a woman with cancer who decides she wants to end her life in the new Pedro Almodóvar film The Room Next Door. She asks a friend to stay with her for her last we... Jan 11, 2025

  • Joan Baez / Suze Rotolo / Al Kooper On Dylan

    A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan is in theaters. We're featuring interviews with three people depicted in the film: Suze Rotolo was his girlfriend and was photographed on... Jan 10, 2025

  • Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

    The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns about how intertwined politics and religion had become. Carter died on Dec. 29... Jan 9, 2025