Fresh Air
Fresh Air with Terry Gross is weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues with intimate conversations and unusual insights.
Recent Episodes
Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart
The Daily Show correspondent was born in India, raised in England and moved to Florida as a teen. His new essay collection reflects on his acting career and his life as an immigrant.
Fresh Air Weekend: Jill Lepore, Amy Poehler And HBO's 'Olive Kitteridge'
Lepore explains how Wonder Woman's creator led a secret life in The Secret History Of Woman Woman; Poehler discusses her memoir Yes Please; David Bianculli reviews the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge.
In The Life Of 'Olive Kitteridge,' It's The Little Things That Add Up
The HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand is based on a collection of stories about residents in a small town in Maine. It's about family, friends and the tenuous relationships that make up life.
'Merry Widow' Operetta: Stage Versus Screen
The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film.
Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared
"The more carny it got, the better I liked it," King says of his new thriller, Joyland. King talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his career writing horror, and about what scares him now.
Taylor Swift: The Peppiest Pop Star We Have Right Now
1989 sidesteps country music entirely to become Swift's first pure pop album.
