Fresh Air
- Program
- Fresh Air
- Producing Organization
- WHYY Public Media
- Contributing Organization
- WHYY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/215-53wstxnx
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- Description
- Description
- HALF: Arthur Alexander TEN: Marion Williams
- Description
- 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. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR.
- Description
- INT. 1: In May of this year, we broadcast a live concert with singer-songwriter ARTHUR ALEXANDER, whose songs were recorded on early records by The Beatles ("Anna") and The Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On"). ALEXANDER had spent the past fifteen years driving a bus for a community center in Cleveland, but this year he returned to performing and released a new album, "Lonely Just Like Me" (Elektra Nonesuch), his first release in twenty years. This summer, just as he was starting a new tour and a new chapter of his life, ALEXANDER suffered a heart attack and died in Nashville. (Concert Rebroadcast from 5/7/93). INT. 2: Gospel singer MARION WILLIAMS. Her trademark, a long-lasting high A-flat "whooo," has been adopted by most gospel and soul singers singers like Little Richard and Aretha Franklin. A self- proclaimed "Holy Roller", WILLIAMS received the Kennedy Center Honars Award this month in Washington for her lifetime achievement in the arts. When she's not performing, WILLIAMS sings traditional gospel at the African-Methodist-Episcopal church in Philadelphia--the first black church formed in America. Her new album is "Can't Keep It To Myself" (Schananchie). (Rebroadcast from 12/6/93). REV. :
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:59:26
- Credits
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: Arthur Alexander
: Marion Williams
Distributor: NPR
Producing Organization: WHYY Public Media
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WHYY
Identifier: 1993 1230 Arthur Alexander_Marion Williams.wav (File Name)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Duration: 00:59:26
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WHYY
Identifier: FA19931230_GCD (WHYY)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Fresh Air,” WHYY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 10, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-53wstxnx.
- MLA: “Fresh Air.” WHYY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 10, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-53wstxnx>.
- APA: Fresh Air. Boston, MA: WHYY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-53wstxnx