To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we’re listening back to interviews from 30 years ago, when ‘Fresh Air’ first aired as a daily, national show. Patty Duke grew up in the public eye, playing Helen Keller in the stage and screen versions of ‘The Miracle Worker.’ Later she starred in her own TV sitcom, ‘The Patty Duke Show.’ Carl Reiner spoke with Terry Gross in 1988 about how his experiences working backstage in Hollywood inspired him to create the classic sitcom ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’ Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the songs that started the Bossa nova craze in the United States.
