Podcast: Fresh Air

One of the best interview shows ever.

Terry Gross has hosted Fresh Air since 1975, when it was a local show on WHYY, Philadelphia. Her show features interviews with the widest range of guests I can imagine -- from all professions imaginable -- though all notable for one reason or another. Some of my favorites are when she talks with aging rockers; they're always sharper than I ever give them credit for being.

I started listening in 1996, when I had a night job proofing scanned military instruction manuals. Her interviews lifted the drudgery (the manuals weren't as exciting as you might think). I remember one night, when she was interviewing Harrison Ford, an infamously surly interviewee. At one point, he chuckled and said (something like), "Wow, you ask really good questions."

And that's the heart of it. Gross is just very good at what she does, one of the best in the U.S. for sure. And since the show went national on NPR in 1985, there's a great archive to dive into.

Recommended highly!

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