Fresh Air is a radio show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States each weekday. As of 2004, the show is syndicated to 445 stations and claims 4.4 million listeners. In addition, some stations carry Fresh Air Weekend, a "best-of" highlight show of the past week in interviews. NPR logo NPR redirects here. ...

The show began in 1975 at NPR affiliate WHYY-FM in Philadelphia with Judy Blank as host; in September of that year Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; thirty years later she remains its chief presenter. The main segment of the show is characterized by an interview, usually of persons in the arts and entertainment field, although other newsmakers, cultural figures, and journalists have also been featured. Shorter segments follow the main segment and carry reviews of various cultural and entertainment diversions on a rotating basis. These include such venues as movies, books, stage plays, television programs, as well as recordings of popular music, jazz, and classical music. The program also features commentary from a range of regular contributors. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... WHYY-FM is a National Public Radio member on 90. ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... All I Did Was Ask, by Terry Gross Terry Gross (born 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... [1]#redirect Book ... A stage play is a dramatic work intended for performance before a live audience, or a performance of such a work. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory and marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...

Most of Gross's interviews are taped and edited down, and as is the case in many radio programs, guests are often not in the studio. While nearly all other radio programming now use digital recording, Fresh Air is still recorded, edited and played on analog reel-to-reel tape. However, the program's website announced in 2006 that the aging tapes were now deteriorating and that they would soon begin transferring the thousands of interviews "to a digital format and indexing them." The show usually uses digital fiber-optic lines to conduct its interviews leading to a superior sound quality. When pressing news requires, it has gone live as during the August 1991 failed Soviet coup. A Sony TC-630 reel-to-reel recorder, once a common household object. ...

The show won the 1994 Peabody Award; according to its website, the show was praised for "probing questions, revelatory interviews, and unusual insights." 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Fresh Air interviews are generally first aired on the Monday through Thursday shows. The Friday shows are rebroadcasts of past interviews.

External links

• Fresh Air from WHYY (Official Website)
• Fresh Air @ Audible.com
• Streaming audio schedule