Skip to content
Every week listeners hear stories about race and identity that expand their minds, and learn practical ways to make their lives better. It's lifelong learning that ranges from the big picture to tiny details and everything in between.

Codeswitch / Life Kit

Listen Live

Listen Live

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
Next

Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

WHYY
rewind
play
fast-forward
 
 
 
Radio Schedule
WHYY
  • DONATE
Primary Menu
  • News
  • Radio & Podcasts
    • Radio Schedule
    • Ways to Stream
    • WHYY Listen App
  • TV
    • WHYY TV Schedule
    • WHYY Watch App
    • Live TV
    • Watch on Demand
    • Stream PBS Kids
  • Arts
  • Events
  • Education
    • WHYY Youth Media
    • WHYY Media Labs
    • WHYY Early Education Programs
    • For Students
    • Pathways to Media Careers
    • Youth Media Awards
  • Support
    • Membership
    • WHYY Passport
    • WHYY Member Portal
    • Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donation Program
    • Volunteer
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE

Lifestyle

Deep-fried tarantula. Hungry yet?
(Smithsonian Networks)
NPR
Food & Drink
National

Don’t bug out! The Smithsonian Channel is going to show you how to cook insects

Joseph Giraldi, executive producer of Bug Bites thinks Westerners' attitudes towards insects as the main ingredient are finally catching up with the rest of the world.

7 years ago

Alex Vardakostas had a dream about creating a robot burger-maker in college. He's now poised to open a restaurant with his Creator Burger robot in September.
(Saroyan Humphrey)
NPR
Food & Drink

Fad or the future? Robot-made burgers wow the crowds in San Francisco

An audience gathers around the transparent 14-foot-long "culinary instrument" in a restaurant called Creator in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood.

7 years ago

Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico started a GoFundMe campaign for homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt (right). (GoFundMe)
Homelessness
Philadelphia

GoFundMe investigating campaign for homeless samaritan

A homeless man who helped a stranded motorist in Philadelphia said he is panhandling once again and using drugs, and he has no access to the money raised on his behalf.

7 years ago

Rolling Harvest Food Rescue Founder and Executive Director Cathy Snyder in her element.
Radio Times
Environment
Food & Drink

Farming stories

Guests: Cathy Snyder, Gail Koskela, Jess Niederer Today, three different perspectives on farming in the greater P ...

Air Date: August 23, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Vacation days piling up? Even a short trip can boost well-being.
(Kristen Uroda for NPR)
NPR
National
Travel

Vacation days piling up? Here’s how to get the most out of a short vacation

As a nation, we could do a better job at taking time off.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Mental Health
Sex & Relationships

Falling out of friendship

Guests: Andrea Bonior, Deborah Tannen Friendships end for many reasons —  a change of lifestyle, growing geogr ...

Air Date: August 20, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:22
Rabbi Sandra Lawson.
LGBTQ
Race & Ethnicity
Religion

Rabbi is latest of many titles for Philly woman

The newly ordained rabbi has just moved from Philadelphia to Elon University in North Carolina where she is an associate chaplain for Jewish life.

7 years ago

Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows 33 inches of precipitation pummeled Philadelphia between January and July. (Creative Commons image)

Rain check: Philadelphia seeing higher than average precipitation

The National Weather Service's science and operations officer says global warming is contributing to intense bouts of rain and flooding.

7 years ago

Beer bottles with crowned caps crowd the conveyor belts of a filling plant in the Veltins brewery in Meschede-Grevenstein, western Germany, in January.
(Rainer Jensen/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink
International

Uh-oh, Germany is rapidly running out of beer bottles

In Germany, beer consumption is up as temperatures remain unusually high. This is good and bad news for the beer industry.

7 years ago

Former Guantanamo guard Steve Wood, right, flew to Mauritania this spring to visit Mohamedou Ould Slahi — the detainee he once spent his days guarding. Slahi was released from Guantanamo in 2016.
(Courtesy of Mohamedou Slahi)
NPR
National

A Guantanamo guard and his detainee reunite

Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Behavioral Health
Business
Mental Health

Burnout

Guests: Christina Maslach, Kristen Lee, Alex Neason If you have a stressful, busy job, chances are that from time ...

Air Date: August 20, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:57
Welcome to parenthood, suckers. (Samantha Clark & Eslah Attar/NPR)
NPR
Home & Family
Music

‘C’ is for compromise: 20 songs for sharing the stereo with your kids

Any song on this list can be a song for kids, or hold depths for a child's parents or designated older person.

7 years ago

Louisiana crawfish caught in waters in and around Berlin are on display at Fisch Frank fish restaurant in Berlin. They are an invasive species and authorities recently licensed a local fisherman to catch them and sell them to local restaurants. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink
International

For Berlin, invasive crustaceans are a tough catch and a tough sell

In a shaded stream in the middle of Berlin's rambling Tiergarten park, fisherman Klaus Hidde lowered himself into the water recently.

7 years ago

Geffen Reinherz, 5 (left), and Skyla Car, 7, draw with chalk at Broad and Poplar Streets while Broad Street is closed off for Philly Free Streets on August 11, 2018. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
View Finders
Changing Communities
Philadelphia
Transportation

Philly Free Streets enjoyed by walkers, cyclists, beach lovers — but not drivers

Inspired by the Pope’s 2015 visit, the event closed down Broad Street from City Hall to Germantown Avenue.

7 years ago

NPR
Home & Family

Mourning and instagramming the death of a pet

When Isis died in 2015, she left an emptiness a story could help fill. Gannaway started posting photographs of Isis for 100 consecutive days on Instagram as a way to grieve.

7 years ago

Page 36 of 70« First«...3435363738...»Last »
Arts & Entertainment Community Courts & Law Education Health Lifestyle Money Politics & Policy Science Urban Planning Weather
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Latest News

  • Ahead of City Council hearing, councilmember hears concerns about foster care system

    4 hours ago

  • Fake tush push and special teams TD help Eagles beat Bucs 31-25 to stay undefeated

    5 hours ago

  • Salvador Jiménez-Flores brings ‘playful and provocative’ exhibit to New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture

    16 hours ago

  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Want a digest of WHYY’s programs, events & stories? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Together we can reach 100% of WHYY’s fiscal year goal

Donate
Learn about WHYY Member benefits
Ways to Donate
WHYY

WHYY provides trustworthy, fact-based, local news and information and world-class entertainment to everyone in our community.

WHYY offers a voice to those not heard, a platform to share everyone’s stories, a foundation to empower early and lifelong learners and a trusted space for unbiased news. Learn more about Social Responsibility at WHYY. It’s how we live.

Contact Us

Philadelphia

215.351.1200
talkback@whyy.org

Delaware

302.516.7506
talkback@whyy.org

Our Programs

  • Albie’s Elevator
  • Art Outside
  • Billy Penn at WHYY
  • Check, Please! Philly
  • The Connection
  • Delishtory
  • Flicks
  • Fresh Air
  • Good Souls
  • Jukebox Journey
  • Movers & Makers
  • On Stage at Curtis
  • Peak Travel
  • Philadelphia Revealed
  • PlanPhilly
  • The Pulse
  • Radio Times Rewind
  • Sports In America
  • Studio 2
  • Things To Do
  • Voices in the Family
  • WHYY News Climate Desk
  • You Oughta Know
  • Young Creators Studio
  • Young, Unhoused and Unseen
  • Your Democracy

Inside WHYY

  • About
    • Social Responsibility at WHYY
    • Board and Executives
    • Community Advisory Board
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Employment
    • Internships
    • Press Room
    • Meet Our Newsroom
    • WHYY News Style Guide
    • WHYY Productions
    • WHYY Spaces
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Directions
    • Coverage Area
    • Financial Statements
    • WHYY Community Report
    • Supporters
    • Privacy
  • Mobile Apps
  • Meet Our Newsroom
  • Employment
  • Lifelong Learning Award
  • N.I.C.E. Initiative
  • Contact Us
  • Sponsorship
  • Directions
  • FCC Public Files
  • FCC Applications

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Sign up for a Newsletter

© MMXXV WHYY

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use for WHYY.org