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The Program

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, produced by WHYY-FM, is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. It is one of public radio's most popular programs, with 4.5 million people tuning to the show's intimate conversations on more than 450 National Public Radio stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. The program began in 1975 at WHYY as a local three-hour show.

National Treasures

Fresh Air host Terry Gross has interviewed thousands of prominent Americans in arts, culture, politics and other fields. These award-winning conversations are a national treasure - an informative, revealing profile of American culture, interests and perspective as they have evolved over the past quarter century.

The Goal

Since 1975, Fresh Air interviews have been recorded on reel-to-reel audio-tape. The older tapes in the Fresh Air Archives are now deteriorating, and the future of these invaluable interviews is at risk. Our goal is to preserve these interviews by transferring them to a digital format and indexing them so that they will be available for future use by listeners, scholars, historians and WHYY members.

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