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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs.
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Feeling cooped up? Get out of town with this delightful literary road trip
In The Rest of Our Lives, the narrator drops his daughter off to college — then keeps on driving, leaving his marriage behind. Ben Markovits' novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Ben Stiller and Pedro Pascal
Stiller examines his famous parents' relationship in the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost. Pascal stars in The Last of Us but says he wouldn't want to survive an apocalypse.
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A big break after age 40 is possible. Just ask Jeff Hiller of 'Somebody Somewhere'
Hiller spent years scraping by in Hollywood before landing the role of Jeff on Somebody Somewhere. His memoir is Actress of a Certain Age. Originally broadcast Aug. 12, 2025.
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Remembering the jazz greats we lost in 2025
Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the jazz notables who died this year, including Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Palmieri and Jim McNeely.
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Richard Kind plays to the largest audience of his life in 'Everybody's Live'
Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. "You must understand — it's anarchy," he says of the show. Originally broadcast April 4, 2025.
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A critic's year-end 'ghost list' wanders from Italian movie sets to 'Demon Hunters'
Critic-at-large John Powers gives his due to the movies, TV and books he wasn't able to cover earlier in the year, including La Grazia, Andor, Mississippi Blue 42 and the documentary Mr. Scorsese.
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Just because she won a Nobel doesn't mean Malala didn't break some rules in college
In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize. In Finding My Way, she writes about her life at Oxford and beyond. Originally broadcast Oct. 21, 2025.
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Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has 'brought it all back'
For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy. Originally broadcast Sept. 25, 2025.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Billy Strings and Laufey
After losing his mother to an overdose in June, music became a source of catharsis for Strings. Laufey was an "odd fish" in native Iceland. Now she's a Grammy Award-winning jazz-pop star.
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'We have to speak, we have to shout': Jane Fonda is still an activist
Earlier this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration during an acceptance speech for a SAG-AFTRA award. Originally broadcast Sept. 2, 2025.
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Springsteen's label was about to drop him. Then came 'Born to Run'
Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen. Carlin's book is Tonight in Jungleland. Originally broadcast Aug. 7, 2025.
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'Twice' author Mitch Albom asks: What if you could relive any moment of your life?
Albom is the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, which chronicled Albom's relationship with Morrie Schwartz, his old college professor who died of ALS. Originally broadcast Oct. 13, 2025.
