Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

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. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network.

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'One Nation Under Gold' Explores America's Obsession With One Precious Metal

By editor • 16 hours ago

DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross who's off this week.

There's Plenty Of Variety On Sexmob's Scrappy 'Cultural Capital'

By Kevin Whitehead • 16 hours ago

DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR.

(SOUNDBITE OF SEXMOB'S "HEAR YOU")

Fresh Air Weekend: Roxane Gay And Sherman Alexie

By editor • Jun 24, 2017

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

Be Bigger, Fight Harder: Roxane Gay On A Lifetime Of 'Hunger': Gay has finally written the book that she "wanted to write the least." The moment she realized she "never want to write about fatness" was the same moment she knew this was a memoir she had to write.