Background
All of the program's interviews are recorded and later edited. As in the case of many such radio programs, guests are often not in the studio during recording, often speaking by ISDN telephone lines from a local station. When pressing news requires, it has gone live, such as during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991.
Fresh Air interviews are generally first aired on the Monday through Thursday shows. The Friday shows are rebroadcasts of past interviews.
The show's theme song, a jazz piece called "Fresh Air", was composed for the program by Joel Forrester of The Microscopic Septet.
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