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Fresh Air — 107 episodes

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A centennial celebration of John Coltrane

2

How the government wastes our time

3

Best Of: Jason Segel / Lisa Kudrow

4

Remembering Tim Curry

5

Riz Ahmed takes on his inner critic

6

Dolly Parton

7

The story of the world's first super-terrorist

8

Lisa Kudrow

9

Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani

10

‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh

11

‘Wonder Man’ star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on cancellation and confidence

12

Challenges the U.S. military is facing in Iran

13

Jason Segel is not afraid of the ‘dirty underneath’

14

What evolution reveals about eating, dieting and fat

15

Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark

16

Reckoning with America’s history of slavery

17

Colman Domingo loves a challenge

18

The race for tech supremacy: The U.S. vs. China

19

‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton

20

Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy

21

Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin

22

Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’

23

Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert

24

How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year

25

Jean Smart bids farewell to ‘Hacks’

26

Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty

27

Best Of: ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson / Actor Jon Bernthal

28

Remembering Irish singer–songwriter Glen Hansard

29

Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him

30

‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson: Nolan should've hired a screenwriter

31

The forces that shape gun culture

32

French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom

33

Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig

34

A former nun on why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' life

35

Lee Sung Jin on the breakthrough that led him to ‘BEEF’

36

Jia Tolentino on ‘Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare’

37

Broadway legend André De Shields doesn't walk, he floats

38

Harriet Clark spent 37 years visiting her mom in prison

39

Best Of: ‘The Invite’ screenwriters / Guitarist Lenny Kaye

40

Ebon Moss-Bachrach on ‘The Bear’

41

Apache Chef Nephi Craig says cooking saved his life

42

Gold, secrets, never-ending meetings: Inside the Trump White House

43

Uncovering abuse inside America's largest ICE detention center

44

'The Invite' screenwriters Rashida Jones & Will McCormack

45

Best Of: Record producer Peter Asher / Romance writer Kennedy Ryan

46

Remembering musical theater historian Robert Kimball

47

Guitarist Lenny Kaye on Patti Smith, Nuggets, and his solo debut

48

A look at new barriers at the ballot box

49

Legendary record producer & manager Peter Asher

50

Best Of: Tennis stars Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova / American Culture Wars

51

Steven Spielberg

52

Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse

53

The “bullies of the tick world” are on the hunt

54

Banned books, shocking art & the birth of the culture wars

55

Tennis rivals Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova team up against cancer

56

Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq

57

Remembering master of the TV sitcom, James Burrows

58

Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration

59

"Masculinsim" goes mainstream: a movement to fight feminism

60

Wendell Pierce is a proud journeyman actor

61

Best Of: A family split by race / Eddie Glaude Jr. on America at 250

62

The collapse of Freedman’s Bank / Remembering Abdullah Ibrahim

63

Comic Ali Siddiq on fatherhood, prison, and his biggest regret

64

Remembering the nation's 'Lost Founder'

65

Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflects on America at 250

66

Best Of: 'Book of Mormon' turns 15 / Actor Clarke Peters

67

Andrew Scott/Remembering author Marjane Satrapi

68

'Daily Show' comic Josh Johnson

69

Josh O'Connor takes the lead in 'Disclosure Day'

70

How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup

71

Best Of: Novelist Maggie O’Farrell / A personal history of the N-Word

72

Alan Cumming / Angela Lansbury

73

Clarke Peters: From ‘The Wire’ to ‘The Boroughs’

74

How a single decision made a century ago split a family by race

75

'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell maps her Irish roots in 'Land'

76

Richard Pryor’s daughter Elizabeth is a scholar of the N-word

77

Best Of: ‘Boroughs’ Actor Alfre Woodard / Rose Byrne

78

Remembering jazz giant Sonny Rollins

79

‘Boroughs’ actor Alfre Woodard reminds us to look to our elders

80

Obama staffer Ben Rhodes on Iran negotiations and the battle for American identity

81

David Sedaris wants to be better (at everything)

82

Billie Eilish & Finneas

83

Stephen Colbert / Remembering MA Rep. Barney Frank

84

Best Of: Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s childhood on the run / Writer Jesmyn Ward

85

Rose Byrne

86

The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement

87

Through loss, Jesmyn Ward will always return to the word

88

Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run

89

Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe

90

Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir

91

Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

92

Inside a journalist’s year of using AI for (almost) everything

93

Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'

94

Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd

95

Nathan Lane is being tested (and he loves it)

96

How Silicon Valley has profited by aligning with MAGA

97

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s path from ‘Backtalker’ to legal scholar

98

Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping

99

Best Of: Flea / Nick Offerman

100

Remembering symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

101

Richard Gadd is looking at the ‘dangers of repression’

102

How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters

103

Sarah Snook Almost Didn't Audition For 'Succession'

104

Best Of: Inside The Pronatalist Movement / Making Sense Of Trauma

105

A Story Of Shipwreck, Mutiny And Murder

106

Terry Gross Remembers Her Late Husband, Francis Davis

107

Baby Bonuses, Trad Wives & The Pronatalist Movement