https://www.kcur.org/2013-04-20/fresh-air-weekend-junger-paisley-and-a-serial-killing-nurse
Junger explores the life of his friend, photographer Tim Hetherington. "Accidental Racist" launched an Internet firestorm but shouldn't overshadow everything...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2013-04-06/fresh-air-weekend-mary-roach-mad-men-ty-burr-and-marriage
Roach's new book explores the human digestive system. Critic David Bianculli praises the season premiere of AMC's hit show. Linguist Geoff Nunberg describes...
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https://www.nhpr.org/2016-01-02/fresh-air-weekend-our-critics-pick-the-best-tv-books-movies-and-music-of-2015
David Bianculli picks the best TV shows of '15. Short books dominate Maureen Corrigan's best book list. David Edelstein recommends the year's best films. Ken...
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https://www.keranews.org/2016-04-16/fresh-air-weekend-w-kamau-bell-julian-lages-arclight-shugs-fats
Comic W. Kamau Bell visits places he is afraid to go on his new series. Kevin Whitehead reviews Julian Lage's new album. Nadia Manzoor and Radhika Vaz discuss...
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https://www.kcur.org/2015-09-19/fresh-air-weekend-mary-karr-on-writing-memoirs-a-minister-who-embraces-outsiders
Author Mary Karr discusses the faults of memory and the challenges of writing about loved ones. Lutheran minister Nadia Bolz-Weber preaches a Gospel of love to...
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https://www.kcur.org/2018-01-12/fresh-air-weekend-the-love-story-behind-the-big-sick-life-after-ballet
Comic Kumail Nanjiani remembers the first time he thought of marrying then-girlfriend Emily V. Gordon: when he saw her in a coma. Ballerina Wendy Whelan fought...
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https://www.wunc.org/2024-05-04/fresh-air-weekend-jon-bon-jovi-novelist-leigh-bardugo
Bon Jovi talks about his vocal surgery and the road to recovery. Maureen Corrigan reviews a collection of Emily Dickinson's letters. Bardugo's new novel, The...
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https://www.ctpublic.org/2016-09-10/fresh-air-weekend-actress-pamela-adlon-jonathan-safran-foers-new-novel-nels-cline
Adlon's new series, Better Things, is based on her experience raising three girls as a single mom. Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Here I Am. Guitarist Cline...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2017-04-22/fresh-air-weekend-obamas-white-house-a-quiet-passion-updating-the-dictionary
Alyssa Mastromonaco talks about her years working in the West Wing. Justin Chang reviews Terence Davies' new film about Emily Dickinson. Kory Stamper explains...
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https://www.tpr.org/2022-03-05/fresh-air-weekend-chinas-influence-in-hollywood-living-with-chronic-illness
Erich Schwartzel says film studios rely upon Chinese audiences to break even. Justin Chang reviews The Batman. Meghan O'Rourke writes about chronic illnesses...
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https://www.tpr.org/2023-04-22/fresh-air-weekend-keri-russell-david-grann-chronicles-shipwreck-and-mutiny
After Felicity and a stint as a spy, Russell embraces her new Diplomat role. Maureen Corrigan reviews There Will Be Fire, by Rory Carroll. Grann's book, The...
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https://www.kcur.org/2015-12-12/fresh-air-weekend-tambor-gets-transparent-a-murray-christmas-author-rick-moody
Tambor talks about playing a 70-something transgender woman on Transparent. David Bianculli reviews Netflix's A Very Murray Christmas. Rick Moody discusses his...
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https://www.keranews.org/2019-02-16/fresh-air-weekend-wildlife-dynasties-the-neuroscience-of-addiction
The BBC series Dynastiesexamines the social lives of five animal species. Ken Tucker reviews new albums by Steve Gunn and Michael Chapman. Judith Grisel...
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https://www.tpr.org/2013-05-25/fresh-air-weekend-soderbergh-sarah-vaughan-julianne-moore
The acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between Liberace and his young lover. A new box set of Vaughan's music shows her range. In What...
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https://www.nhpr.org/2018-07-14/fresh-air-weekend-trump-and-fox-news-the-science-behind-fish-oil-supplements
Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman says the president and Fox News host Sean Hannity "speak almost daily." David Edelstein reviews Three Identical Strangers. Paul...
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https://www.keranews.org/2019-08-17/fresh-air-weekend-colson-whiteheads-the-nickel-boys-quitting-opioids-alone
Colson Whitehead bases The Nickel Boyson a brutal, segregated reform school in Florida. And after a bad motorcycle crash, Travis Rieder wrote In Pain: A...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2015-09-26/fresh-air-weekend-francis-papacy-the-concert-by-the-sea-treating-breast-cancer
Journalist Paul Vallely discuses the reforms Pope Francis is making. Kevin Whitehead reviews Concert By The Seaby Erroll Garner's trio. A surgeon seeks to help...
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https://www.wunc.org/2025-01-11/fresh-air-weekend-tilda-swinton-adrien-brody
Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in The Room Next Door. Justin Chang reviews Hard Truths. Brody drew on his family's immigration story for his role in The...
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https://www.tpr.org/2015-09-26/fresh-air-weekend-francis-papacy-the-concert-by-the-sea-treating-breast-cancer
Journalist Paul Vallely discuses the reforms Pope Francis is making. Kevin Whitehead reviews Concert By The Seaby Erroll Garner's trio. A surgeon seeks to help...
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https://www.nhpr.org/2016-07-09/fresh-air-weekend-bobby-kennedy-allen-toussaints-new-album-rethinking-addiction
Biographer Larry Tye discusses Robert Kennedy's political transformation. Kevin Whitehead reviews Toussaint's American Tunes. Author Maia Szalavitz says...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2017-06-03/fresh-air-weekend-sen-al-franken-humorist-david-sedaris
Franken talks about SNL, President Trump and his new memoir, Giant of the Senate. Sedaris revisits turning points in his life in Theft by Finding,a collection...
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https://www.keranews.org/2012-06-09/fresh-air-weekend-neil-young-tom-philpott
Neil Young talks about his newest album Americana. And Tom Philpott, who covers food and the agricultural industry for Mother Jones, joins Fresh Air's Terry...
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https://www.wosu.org/2016-11-12/fresh-air-weekend-actress-issa-rae-certain-women-the-creators-of-westworld
Rae talks about her HBO series Insecure.Critic John Powers praises the "quiet restraint and unhurried rhythm" of Certain Women.Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy...
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https://www.ctpublic.org/2018-10-06/fresh-air-weekend-infertility-and-private-life-evan-osnos-on-mark-zuckerberg
Writer and director Tamara Jenkins says her experiences with IVF inspired her new film. David Edelstein reviews A Star is Born. Osnos discusses his recent New...
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https://www.wunc.org/2020-01-25/fresh-air-weekend-journalist-detail-a-very-stable-genius-actor-tim-roth
Washington Postreporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reflect on the Trump presidency. Ken Tucker reviews Marcus King's solo album, El Dorado. Roth...
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https://www.npr.org/2013/12/14/250726811/fresh-air-weekend-robert-redford-ella-fitzgerald-michael-sheen
Dec 14, 2013 - At 77, Redford returns to his roots; Ella Fitzgerald's early years have been collected in a Chick Webb box set; and Michael Sheen talks about the
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https://www.wunc.org/2021-08-14/fresh-air-weekend-working-with-stephen-sondheim-cecily-strong
Sondheim collaborator James Lapine reflects on his experiences in Sunday in the Park. Ken Tucker reviews a posthumously released Prince album. Strong discusses...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2017-04-01/fresh-air-weekend-illustrator-emil-ferris-devil-and-webster-for-profit-colleges
Ferris had to learn to draw again after West Nile left her paralyzed. Maureen Corrigan reviews Jean Hanff Korelitz's new novel. Tressie McMillan Cottom says...
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https://www.npr.org/2020/07/11/889752768/fresh-air-weekend-padma-lakshmi-patrick-stewart
Jul 11, 2020 - Lakshmi explores immigrant cooking on Taste the Nation. Ken Tucker reviews Bob Dylan's new album. Stewart is back as Jean-Luc Picard in the CBS All Access...
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https://www.tpr.org/2014-12-06/fresh-air-weekend-ray-davies-books-for-jazz-lovers-and-josh-brolin
Ray Davies discusses 50 years with The Kinks; jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews three jazz books out this holiday season; Josh Brolin, who stars in Inherent...
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https://www.ctpublic.org/2019-04-22/fresh-air-weekend-biographer-robert-caro-actor-christopher-meloni
Caro began writing biographies in order to better understand political power. Ken Tucker reviews The Mekons' album, Deserted. After 12 seasons on Law & Order:...
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https://www.wamc.org/2017-05-13/fresh-air-weekend-gabourey-sidibe-no-one-can-pronounce-my-name-rhiannon-giddens
The Precious star talks about overcoming anxiety and working as a phone-sex operator. Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Rakesh Satyal's new novel. Giddens'...
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https://www.wunc.org/2023-11-11/fresh-air-weekend-barbra-streisand-the-roots-co-founder-tariq-black-thought-trotter
Streisand looks back on her life and career in show business in the new memoir, My Name Is Barbra. Trotter reflects on growing up in Philly, his friendship...
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https://www.wfae.org/2025-07-05/fresh-air-weekend-a-theater-kid-looks-back-the-bear-star-ebon-moss-bachrach
Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller traces his journey to Broadway. Ken Tucker reviews the new release of Bruce Springsteen's lost albums. Moss-Bachrach describes...
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https://www.keranews.org/2020-12-05/fresh-air-weekend-hugh-grant-the-sanitation-crisis-affecting-the-rural-poor
Grant, co-star of The Undoing, embraces the "blessed relief" of darker roles. Justin Chang reviews Ammonite. WasteauthorCatherine Coleman Flowers discusses the...
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https://www.kcur.org/2014-01-18/fresh-air-weekend-roger-ailes-rosanne-cash-and-sonia-sotomayor
Gabriel Sherman traces the beginning of Fox News' success, Ken Tucker calls Cash's new album a timeless work of comfort and quiet joy, and the Supreme Court...
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https://www.kcur.org/2018-01-12/fresh-air-weekend-haroon-moghul-chuck-berrys-final-recordings-daring-to-drive
Moghul's new memoir is How to Be a Muslim. Critic Ken Tucker says Berry's final recordings are forward thinking. Manal al-Sharif describes driving in Saudi...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2016-09-17/fresh-air-weekend-comic-jeff-ross-oliver-stones-snowden-soccers-abby-wambach
Ross explains why he's careful about the things he says during celebrity roasts. Critic David Edelstein reviews Oliver Stone's Snowden. Wambach discusses her...
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https://www.kcur.org/2015-05-11/fresh-air-weekend-inside-mad-men-british-pulp-fiction-youth-sports
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner talks about the end of the road for Don Draper; John Powers reviews Ted Lewis' GBH; Baseball's Mike Matheny talks about his...
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https://www.kcur.org/2014-07-19/fresh-air-weekend-angela-ricketts-chaz-ebert-and-steve-james
In her book No Man's War,Angela Ricketts writes about raising three kids while her husband deployed. Filmmaker Steve James and Chaz Ebert discuss Life Itself,...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2014-08-16/fresh-air-weekend-eric-schlosser-spoons-new-album-and-the-knick-creators
Eric Schlosser's discusses his new book Command and Control; Ken Tucker reviews Spoon's They Want My Soul; The Knick creators talk about their new drama set in...
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https://www.tpr.org/2015-09-12/fresh-air-weekend-white-nationalists-and-trump-baseballs-intangibles-alison-brie
Reporter Evan Osnos discusses Donald Trump's appeal to white-rights groups. Baseball writer Lonnie Wheeler talks about the intangibles of winning. Alison Brie...
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https://www.kcur.org/2015-12-05/fresh-air-weekend-hbos-leftovers-adeles-25-broadway-composer-john-kander
Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, the co-creators of The Leftovers, discuss the series. Rock critic Ken Tucker weighs in on Adele's popularity. John Kander...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2015-09-05/fresh-air-weekend-jonathan-franzen-the-history-of-the-autism-spectrum
The author of The Corrections and the new novel Puritylikens writing to losing himself in a dream. Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2012-10-08/fresh-air-weekend-author-and-comic-stephen-colbert
The host of The Colbert Report returns to Fresh Air to talk about his new book, America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't.
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https://www.wamc.org/2013-08-24/fresh-air-weekend-worlds-end-robin-thicke-and-the-sports-gene
Five friends reunite for an epic pub crawl in the latest from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. Thicke's album "Blurred Lines" reveals he's an earnest...
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https://www.kcur.org/2012-06-30/fresh-air-weekend-alec-baldwin-college-tuition
The star of 30 Rock has two films out this summer, Rock of Ages and To Rome with Love. And we talk to a policy expert about rising college tuition. College is...
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https://www.wunc.org/2022-08-20/fresh-air-weekend-the-gops-denialism-black-lady-sketch-show-creator-robin-thede
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank examines how the GOP got to where it is today. Justin Chang reviews Emily the Criminal. Thede talks about the various...
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https://www.tpr.org/2021-06-19/fresh-air-weekend-author-julie-lythcott-haims-how-food-companies-gets-us-hooked
Lythcott-Haims' new book, Your Turn, is a handbook on adulthood. Kevin Whitehead reviews Minor Swing, by Vincent Herring. Reporter Michael Moss says processed...
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https://www.wlrn.org/2013-07-06/fresh-air-weekend-questlove-elisabeth-moss-and-claire-dewitt
Ahmir Thompson, the co-founder and drummer for The Roots explains how his musician father groomed him for show business. As Peggy Olson on Mad Men, Moss has...
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