Dave Davies Dave Davies is a guest host for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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Dave Davies

Dave Davies

Guest Host, Fresh Air

Dave Davies is a guest host for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

In addition to his role at Fresh Air, Davies is a senior reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia. Prior to WHYY, he spent 19 years as a reporter and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, covering government and politics.

Before joining the Daily News in 1990, Davies was city hall bureau chief for KYW News Radio, Philadelphia's commercial all-news station. From 1982 to 1986, Davies was a reporter for WHYY covering local issues and filing reports for NPR. He also edited a community newspaper in Philadelphia and has worked as a teacher, a cab driver and a welder.

Davies is a graduate of the University of Texas.

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Tuesday

Public health professor Arline Geronimus says marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress, which leads to increasingly serious health problems over time. Jon Cherry/Getty Images hide caption

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How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging and disease

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Friday

'Fresh Air' marks the final season of 'Succession,' with Cox, Culkin and Macfadyen

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Tuesday

An unhoused individual sleeps under an American flag blanket in New York City on Sept. 10, 2013. In 2021, approximately 11% of Americans lived below the federal poverty line. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

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Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

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Monday

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From 'Almost Famous' to definitely famous, Billy Crudup is enjoying his new TV roles

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Monday

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A veterinarian says pets have a lot to teach us about love and grief

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Friday

'Camera Man' unspools the colorful life of silent film star Buster Keaton

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Tuesday

'Limitless' makes the case that the Federal Reserve is more powerful than we realize

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Thursday

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How a former caterer created the mercenary army fighting Putin's war in Ukraine

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Tuesday

An ER doc reflects on life, death and uncertainty in the early days of COVID-19

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Monday

LBJ biographer Robert Caro reflects on fame, power and the presidency

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Friday

Remembering De La Soul co-founder David Jolicoeur, aka Trugoy the Dove

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Tuesday

Former prosecutor says Manhattan DA could have charged Trump with multiple crimes

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Thursday

A journalist ventures inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups

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Thursday

Social media's role in Jan. 6 was left out of the final report

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Wednesday

The Texas and the ATF flags fly at half staff April 23, 1993, over the only structure left standing after a fire destroyed the the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on April 19. J. David Ake/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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30 years after the siege, 'Waco' examines what led to the catastrophe

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Tuesday

F. Murray Abraham says his White Lotus character Bert is "nothing but a male chauvinist pig" but that the women who respond to him "understand that he really has a good heart." Fabio Lovino/HBO hide caption

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Winning an Oscar almost cost F. Murray Abraham his career — but he bounced back

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Monday

These workers were promised green cards following Hurricane Katrina. Instead they were issued temporary visas that bound them to a single employer. Courtesy of Ted Quant/Workman hide caption

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Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

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Thursday

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Is the U.S. government designating too many documents as 'classified'?

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Monday

Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key

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Wednesday

'Raw Deal' takes a hard look at the state of the American meat industry

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Thursday

How the Jan. 6 committee used TV tactics and dark humor in its case against Trump

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Wednesday

'American Caliph' revisits one of the most dramatic hostage crises in U.S. history

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Tuesday

Understanding the mental health crisis afflicting American teens

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Monday

How a Black neighborhood association in Pittsburgh helped shape emergency medicine

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