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.
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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
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Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.
Writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a 1990 California wildfire. After being rendered homeless and sleeping on a friend's floor, he was told about a Benedictine monastery. His time sp... Jan 18, 2025
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The True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set ... Jan 17, 2025
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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
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How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence
In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he also lived. In Aflame, he recounts the devastation of the fire — and the peace he f... Jan 15, 2025
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Can The U.S. Aquire Greenland? & Other Q's About Trump Foreign Policy
In the past, Donald Trump talked about keeping America out of foreign conflicts — but lately he's talked about potentially using force or economic pressure to acquire Greenland, the P... Jan 14, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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