Talk Easy Turns 10 (with Terry Gross)
About this episode
Sam Fragoso celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Talk Easy with a conversation featuring Terry Gross.
To mark the beginning of Talk Easy ’s 10-year anniversary, Sam called up Terry Gross. Watch this episode on YouTube. Then, we turn to their conversation from Philadelphia last fall. They discuss Terry’s half century hosting Fresh Air (8:00), early memories of writing (13:00), and her improbable road to public radio (29:38). Terry walks us through the formative years of Fresh Air (33:37) and its seminal conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (40:21), John Updike (46:30), Monica Lewinsky (49:30), Joan Didion (1:00:55), and more. On the back-half, Gross reflects on forty-seven years of partnership with her late husband, jazz writer Francis Davis (1:03:24), their shared affinity for reading and music (1:05:57), the future of public media (1:19:16), and why she continues to have faith in (and love for) the long-form interview (1:31:35). Original air date: September 14, 2025 As always, our email: talkeasypod@gmail.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Host: Sam Fragoso
Guest: Terry Gross
Topics covered
- anniversary
- public radio
- interviews
- media history
- writing
- jazz
Keywords
- Talk Easy
- Terry Gross
- Fresh Air
- public media
- long-form interview
- anniversary
- writing
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fresh Air
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