Fresh Air

Fresh Air®

with Terry Gross

About the Program

Fresh Air with Terry Gross is a Peabody Award-winning magazine of contemporary arts and issues. Produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, Pa., the show is known for captivating interviews with guests from literature, science, music, film, and more. Fresh Air Weekend culls the highlights from the previous week's shows for engaging weekend listening.

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Latest Show

  • An Open-Source Approach To Better Prosthetics
    When Marine engineer Jonathan Kuniholm returned to his industrial-design shop after a tour of duty in Iraq, one of his first projects was personal: He wanted to improve on the design of the prosthetics he'd been using since he lost part of his right arm in an ambush. Kuniholm and his colleagues founded the Open Prosthetics Project, an open-source collaboration that shares its innovations freely.
  • For Wounded Soldiers, Prosthetic Help At Home
    Advances in military medicine mean that more soldiers are surviving on the battlefield, but many are coming home with missing limbs. When they come home, those soldiers turn to Colonel Paul Pasquina, medical director of the amputee program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the latest in prosthetics.
  • Strong And Simple As A 'Shadow On The Ground'
    You may not recognize the name James Hand, but that's just because you've never heard anything like him. The 57-year-old Texan has been in hidden away in country music scene for years, and if his third album Shadow of the Ground shows his age, critic Ken Tucker says it's just that Hand doesn't care what you think.
  • Woody Harrelson Goes To War In 'The Messenger'
    This month Woody Harrelson stars in a powerful new movie about the costs of war. He plays Capt. Tony Stone, a veteran of the Army's Casualty Notification service, charged with the task of notifying the families of fallen soldiers. The film opens Nov. 13, but Harrelson's performance is already generating Oscar chatter.

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