Fresh Air
3 p.m.-4 p.m. Weekdays on VPR
'Fresh Air' is one of the best programs...
Cindy Fountain
Bradford
Fresh Air with Terry Gross is NPR's Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. It may be considered a talk show, but it hardly fits the mold.
"I try to show the connections between the person's work and their life that led to that work," Gross says of her interviews. As a host, she takes time to get to know her guest from every angle, and her meticulous preparation shows. Gross links ideas and experiences in ways that help even the most quiet and reserved guests open up; at the same time she anticipates exactly what her listeners want to know next.
Fresh Air brings you fascinating stories and ideas from people who shape, record, and deconstruct the here and now. Guests are authors, artists, TV writers, historians, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, politicians, actors, and other influential people of today. Fresh Air complements these one-on-one interviews with commentary and criticism from a roster of nationally recognized experts.
Fresh Air's roster of critics and commentators includes: classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz; linguist Geoffrey Nunberg; pop music critic Ken Tucker; rock historian Ed Ward; television critic David Bianculli; jazz critic Kevin Whitehead; film critic John Powers; book critic Maureen Corrigan; and word-music and American-roots music critic Milo Miles.
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