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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. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including weekly bonus episodes and curated playlists of archive interviews from Fresh Air.And subscribe to our weekly ne…

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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’
2026-10-08 · 44 min
Ryan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Trump's crosshairs. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her book...
How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military
2026-10-07 · 45 min
New York Times military and Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe says Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has disproportionately blocked promotions of Black and women senior officers, and he’s also bee...
‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see
2026-10-07 · 44 min
Murray Hill's character on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere , Fred Rococo, is a soil scientist trans man who hosts a queer cabaret. “[He] is me dialed down to like a 2,” he tells Terry Gross. In real ...
Michael Douglas
2026-10-05 · 45 min
Michael Douglas is one of the most recognizable actors of our time, but in 1987, many still knew him as Kirk Douglas's son. That year, he starred in Fatal Attraction and Wall Street ,...
Best Of: Kyle MacLachlan / Inside the ‘romance scam’
2026-10-03 · 49 min
Kyle MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune . The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks . “The wor...
Celebrating minimalist composer Steve Reich
2026-10-02 · 46 min
Often called one of the fathers of minimalist music, Reich created a vocabulary that has influenced nearly every form of music: Classical, electronic, jazz, and pop. To commemorate his 90th birthday, ...
Sheryl Crow
2026-10-01 · 46 min
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a new album, Pick You Up , out Oct. 9. She spoke with Fresh Air guest interviewer Sam Fragoso (<a href="https://talkeasypod.com/" target="_bla...
New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine
2026-09-30 · 46 min
Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist , is just back from her fourth visit to Ukraine. She says Russia has ramped up production of missiles and deadly drones, while Ukraine is...
Mahmoud Khalil’s 104 days in ICE Detention
2026-09-29 · 45 min
Khalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and fled the country at 18. He had a green card to be in the United States, and had become one of the most visible faces of the pro-Palestinian p...
Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places
2026-09-28 · 46 min
MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune . The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks . “The worlds t...

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