Product Description
Selected from the Fresh Air archives, this collection features interviews with personalities as diverse as religious scholars, scientists, and comedians. As in previous Fresh Air collections, Terry Gross brings out the best in her subjects. These are personal, thought-provoking conversations on contemporary spiritual thought.
Interviewees include
* Tim LaHaye
* Karen Armstrong
* Bart Ehrman
* Julia Sweeney
* Francis Collins
* Richard Dawkins
Author Bio
Fresh Air with TERRY GROSS, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Terry Gross started out in public radio in 1973, at WBFO in Buffalo. Soon after she became producer and host of
Fresh Air, then a live, daily show broadcast locally, at WHYY in 1975.
Fresh Air premiered nationally in its current hour-long version in 1987, designed as the lead in to the program
All Things Considered. A recipient of the 2003 Edward R. Murrow award, Terry Gross has been called by the
L.A. Times "One of the most thought-provoking interviewers working in the media today." In 2007 the National Book Foundation presented her with a Literarian Award for outstanding service to the American literary community.
