All Episodes
Fresh Air — 107 episodes
A centennial celebration of John Coltrane
How the government wastes our time
Best Of: Jason Segel / Lisa Kudrow
Remembering Tim Curry
Riz Ahmed takes on his inner critic
Dolly Parton
The story of the world's first super-terrorist
Lisa Kudrow
Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani
‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh
‘Wonder Man’ star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on cancellation and confidence
Challenges the U.S. military is facing in Iran
Jason Segel is not afraid of the ‘dirty underneath’
What evolution reveals about eating, dieting and fat
Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark
Reckoning with America’s history of slavery
Colman Domingo loves a challenge
The race for tech supremacy: The U.S. vs. China
‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton
Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy
Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin
Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’
Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert
How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year
Jean Smart bids farewell to ‘Hacks’
Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty
Best Of: ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson / Actor Jon Bernthal
Remembering Irish singer–songwriter Glen Hansard
Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him
‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson: Nolan should've hired a screenwriter
The forces that shape gun culture
French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom
Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig
A former nun on why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' life
Lee Sung Jin on the breakthrough that led him to ‘BEEF’
Jia Tolentino on ‘Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare’
Broadway legend André De Shields doesn't walk, he floats
Harriet Clark spent 37 years visiting her mom in prison
Best Of: ‘The Invite’ screenwriters / Guitarist Lenny Kaye
Ebon Moss-Bachrach on ‘The Bear’
Apache Chef Nephi Craig says cooking saved his life
Gold, secrets, never-ending meetings: Inside the Trump White House
Uncovering abuse inside America's largest ICE detention center
'The Invite' screenwriters Rashida Jones & Will McCormack
Best Of: Record producer Peter Asher / Romance writer Kennedy Ryan
Remembering musical theater historian Robert Kimball
Guitarist Lenny Kaye on Patti Smith, Nuggets, and his solo debut
A look at new barriers at the ballot box
Legendary record producer & manager Peter Asher
Best Of: Tennis stars Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova / American Culture Wars
Steven Spielberg
Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse
The “bullies of the tick world” are on the hunt
Banned books, shocking art & the birth of the culture wars
Tennis rivals Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova team up against cancer
Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq
Remembering master of the TV sitcom, James Burrows
Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration
"Masculinsim" goes mainstream: a movement to fight feminism
Wendell Pierce is a proud journeyman actor
Best Of: A family split by race / Eddie Glaude Jr. on America at 250
The collapse of Freedman’s Bank / Remembering Abdullah Ibrahim
Comic Ali Siddiq on fatherhood, prison, and his biggest regret
Remembering the nation's 'Lost Founder'
Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflects on America at 250
Best Of: 'Book of Mormon' turns 15 / Actor Clarke Peters
Andrew Scott/Remembering author Marjane Satrapi
'Daily Show' comic Josh Johnson
Josh O'Connor takes the lead in 'Disclosure Day'
How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup
Best Of: Novelist Maggie O’Farrell / A personal history of the N-Word
Alan Cumming / Angela Lansbury
Clarke Peters: From ‘The Wire’ to ‘The Boroughs’
How a single decision made a century ago split a family by race
'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell maps her Irish roots in 'Land'
Richard Pryor’s daughter Elizabeth is a scholar of the N-word
Best Of: ‘Boroughs’ Actor Alfre Woodard / Rose Byrne
Remembering jazz giant Sonny Rollins
‘Boroughs’ actor Alfre Woodard reminds us to look to our elders
Obama staffer Ben Rhodes on Iran negotiations and the battle for American identity
David Sedaris wants to be better (at everything)
Billie Eilish & Finneas
Stephen Colbert / Remembering MA Rep. Barney Frank
Best Of: Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s childhood on the run / Writer Jesmyn Ward
Rose Byrne
The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement
Through loss, Jesmyn Ward will always return to the word
Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run
Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe
Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
Inside a journalist’s year of using AI for (almost) everything
Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'
Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd
Nathan Lane is being tested (and he loves it)
How Silicon Valley has profited by aligning with MAGA
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s path from ‘Backtalker’ to legal scholar
Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping
Best Of: Flea / Nick Offerman
Remembering symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Richard Gadd is looking at the ‘dangers of repression’
How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters
Sarah Snook Almost Didn't Audition For 'Succession'
Best Of: Inside The Pronatalist Movement / Making Sense Of Trauma
A Story Of Shipwreck, Mutiny And Murder
Terry Gross Remembers Her Late Husband, Francis Davis
Baby Bonuses, Trad Wives & The Pronatalist Movement