Fresh Air Collections
Selections from National Public Radio's Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Terry Gross
Compelling, in-depth interviews from the Peabody Award-winning public radio show.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross is one of Public Radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly four million people tune in to the show's intimate conversations, broadcast nationwide on more than 400 NPR radio stations and in Europe on the World Radio Network. Available for the first time at retail, these two collections span 15 years of engaging, intelligent talks with top writters and comedians.
Fresh Air: Laughs with Terry Gross
The newest collection from Fresh Air includes thought-provoking , laugh-out-loud interviews with 21 comedy stars: Al Franken, Bill Maher, Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani, Tracey Ullman, Martin Short, Conan O'Brien, Richard Pryor, Jon Lovitz, Richard Belzer, Colin Quinn, Chris Rock, Drew Carey, Carol Leifer, Larry David, Henny Youngman, Phyllis Diller, Jay Leno, Joan Rivers, Jackie Mason, and Bob Newhart.
Fresh Air: Writers Speak with Terry Gross
In the next best thing to a writers' workshop, 13 acclaimed novelists, poets, and cultural icons talk about their lives, their experiences, and their writing. Terry interviews Stephen King, David Sedaris, Maurice Sendak, Billy Collins, Richard Price, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson, John Updike, David Rakoff, and Fran Lebowitz.
Radio broadcasts; 3½ hours on 3 cds
ISBN 1-56511-919-3 Fresh Air Laughs (CD)
ISBN 1-56511-918-5 Fresh Air Writers (CD)
Terry Gross started out in public radio in 1973, at WBFO in Buffalo. In 1975, she became producer and host of Fresh Air, then a live daily show broadcast locally at WHYY. The show premiered nationally in its current long-hour version in 1987. The 1994 Peobody Award citation praises its "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." In 2003, Terry Gross won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award.
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