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Title: Fresh Air, Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Veteran British journalists Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson on this edition of Fresh Air. They've just collaborated on the new book Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972, about the day 30 years ago when British paratroopers shot 27 unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators in Derry, Ireland, killing 13 of them, wounding 14. Five were shot in the back. Since then the day has been known as Bloody Sunday. After a formal inquiry the British soldiers were exonerated. Pringle and Jacobson covered the massacre for The Sunday Times, conducting interviews in the days following. For their new book they reexamine the event and the days leading up to it using documents formerly classified by the British government. (Broadcast date: January 29, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Barton Gellman and Sylvia Nasar

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Journalist Barton Gellman and author Sylvia Nasar on this edition of Fresh Air. Barton Gellman of The Washington Post will discuss the Clinton and later the Bush administration's efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and his network prior to September 11th. Gellman wrote a two-part series about it that ran in The Washington Post late last year.

Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, the biography of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash, who also suffered from schizophrenia. The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award and is the basis of the movie of the same name. Nasar is a former economics correspondent for The New York Times. She is currently the Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. (Broadcast date: January 24, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Frank Stella and remembering Juan Garcia Esquivel

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Abstract painter Frank Stella and remembering musician Juan Garcia Esquivel on this edition of Fresh Air. Frank Stella was first well known in the late 1950s for his Black Paintings series - striped monochrome works that helped touch off the minimalism movement. Over the years his work evolved from the canvas to colorful geometrical configurations of sculpture and architectural dimension. His 31-foot-high sculpture, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel was recently unveiled in front of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Juan Garcia Esquivel was the icon of space age/bachelor music, producing innovative recordings of pop music in the '50s and '60s. He died in his home in Mexico on January 3 at the age of 83. In 1994 his work was reissued on the CD ESQUIVEL!: SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD MUSIC. Fresh Air host Terry Gross speaks with Irwin Chusid, the producer of ESQUIVEL!, and Yvonne De Bourbon, one of Esquivel's ex-wives and a former performer in his live show. (Original broadcast dates: November 16, 2000, and September 7, 1994)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ingrid Bentancourt and Stephen Dudley

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Colombian senator and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and journalist Stephen Dudley on this edition of Fresh Air. In a country controlled by drug cartels and corrupt government officials, Betancourt has spoken out against corruption. Her efforts have earned her and her family death threats. She travels with as many as a dozen bodyguards and sent her children away. Bentancourt grew up in Paris, the daughter of Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO. Her mother was a political activist. Bentancourt's book about her fight against corruption was a best seller in France, where it was first published. It's just been published in English under the title Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia. Bentancourt is 39 years old.

Freelance journalist Stephen Dudley has been reporting from Colombia for five years for National Public Radio and Public Radio International's The World. (Broadcast Date: January 8, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Randall Kennedy and Jerry Goldsmith

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy and composer Jerry Goldsmith on this edition of Fresh Air. Randall Kennedy's new book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word is based on a series of classroom lectures he prepared exploring the history and use of the word nigger. He found the word in literature, political debates, cartoons, and songs. And he explores the use of the word from a hateful slur to a term of endearment. Kennedy is a Rhodes Scholar, and he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Kennedy's also the author of Race, Crime and the Law.

Jerry Goldsmith has been writing film and TV music since the 1950s. He won an Academy Award in 1976 for his music for The Omen. His film scores include: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Sand Pebbles, Chinatown, and A Patch of Blue. His TV credits include: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Dr. Kildare, The Waltons, and Barnaby Jones. There's a new CD collecting his music, The Film Music of Jerry Goldsmith. (Broadcast Date: January 7, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Dr. Lynn Amowitz

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Physicians for Human Rights researcher Dr. Lynn Amowitz on this edition of Fresh Air. Amowitz specializes in internal medicine, women's health and epidemiology. Last month she was in Afghanistan interviewing displaced women as B-52s were bombing just six miles away. Previous to that visit, Amowitz researched and compiled the report on the condition of women under the Taliban in the report "Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan". Amowitz specializes in working in war torn communities. Over the years she's worked in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zaire, and Nigeria. Amowitz also works at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. (Broadcast Date: December 20, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Larry Goodson

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

International studies professor Larry Goodson on this edition of Fresh Air. Larry Goodson is associate professor of international Studies at Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts. He's the author of the book, Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban. Goodson writes that Afghanistan has "become the archetype of a failed state and a perfect example of how nonstate actors move into the vacuum created when a state fails." He also writes about the divisions in the Afghan population: ethnic, linguistic, regional, sectarian, racial, and tribal. (Broadcast Date: November 29, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Nuala O'Faolain

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Her most recent book is her first novel called My Dream of You. Her critically acclaimed 1998 memoir, Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman was on the New York Times best seller list. O'Faolain is also a columnist for the Irish Times; she has been at the paper for over twelve years. (Original Broadcast Date: April 2, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Todd Feinberg and Tom Fontana

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Psychiatrist and neurologist Todd Feinberg and writer Tom Fontana on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Todd Feinberg's new book is called Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self. What is the self? and what is the relationship between the brain and selfhood? Feinberg uses the stories and interesting cases of his patients to try and answer these questions from a neurological and psychological standpoint. Feinberg claims that the way patients with brain damage or disorders like "alien hand syndrome" talk about themselves can tell us a lot about how the brain "creates" itself. Dr. Feinberg is associate professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Chief of the Betty and Morton Yarmon Division of Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease at the Beth Israel Medical Center of New York. Executive producer and writer, Tom Fontana of HBO's Oz, the realistic drama about life in an experimental unit of a maximum security prison. Fontana also created Homicide: Life on the Street and the 1980s drama set in a city hospital, St. Elsewhere. (Original Broadcast Date: January 30, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Jeffrey Toobin and Ben Cheever

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-06-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and writer Ben Cheever on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Toobin's new book is an investigation into the bush gore presidential recount. It's called, Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election. He also has a piece in the latest New Yorker, about the new anti-terrorism legislation. His last book, A Vast Conspiracy, was about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Toobin is also a legal analyst for ABC news. Ben Cheever's new book is called Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square 1 in a Service Economy. In 1995, Cheever lost his publisher and was not able to sell his third novel. To continue working, he decided to take jobs at chain bookstores, car dealerships, and sandwich shops. His book is about his 5 years working in the "service economy." Cheever's novels include The Plagiarist, The Partisan, and Famous After Death. He has been a newspaper reporter and an editor at Reader's Digest. (Broadcast Date: November 6, 2001)