Fresh Air
- Program
- Fresh Air
- Producing Organization
- WHYY Public Media
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/215-93ttf8w6
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- Description
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- HALF: Tommy Chong (R) TEN: Kevin (Jackie McLean) Bruno Kirby obit (R) Edelstein (Half Nelson)
- 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
- (1.) Comedian TOMMY CHONG - one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong, who made a career out of making jokes about being stoned. They recorded six gold comedy albums and starred in seven films. CHONG recently spent nine months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia. His arrest was part of the U.S. Justice Departments Operation Pipe Dreams investigation into the Internet distribution of drug paraphernalia like bongs and marijuana pipes. CHONG says he pleaded guilty to protect his son whose company was targeted. CHONG now has a new book, His new book is "The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment). One reviewer writes it is a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9/11 American society. (2.) Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews Its Time, a new reissue of a classic sixties jazz album from the late alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. (3.) Actor BRUNO KIRBY. He died Monday at the age of 57 from complications of leukemia. KIRBY was the would-be comedian in "Good Morning, Viet Nam" and Carrie Fisher's boyfriend in "When Harry Met Sally." He played opposite Matthew Broderick in "The Freshman," and was the limousine driver in This is Spinal Tap. Over the years KIRBY played in dozens of movies, TV shows and on Broadway. (REBROADCAST from 7/27/90). (4.) Film critic DAVID EDELSTEIN reviews Half Nelson, about a young inner city junior high school teacher who develops a drug habit, and the friendship he strikes up with one of his students.
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Distributor: NPR
Host: Dave Davies
Producing Organization: WHYY Public Media
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Fresh Air,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-93ttf8w6.
- MLA: “Fresh Air.” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-93ttf8w6>.
- APA: Fresh Air. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-215-93ttf8w6