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Title: Fresh Air, Joseph Galloway

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Military Affairs Correspondent for Knight Ridder's Washington bureau Joseph Galloway on this edition of Fresh Air. He's been a journalist for more than four decades. He was a war correspondent in Vietnam and co-authored the national best-seller (with Lt. Gen (ret.) Hal G. Moore) We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. He was the only civilian decorated with the medal of valor for his actions during the Vietnam war rescuing wounded soldiers under fire in the Ia Drang Valley. Galloway also covered the first Gulf War. Recently Galloway was special consultant to General Colin Powell at the State Department. Galloway is also co-author of the book, Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf Conflict. (Broadcast Date: March 26, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, James Bennet

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

James Bennet, Jerusalem Bureau Chief of The New York Times, on this edition of Fresh Air. He'll tell us about the current state of affairs between Israel and Palestine, and the impact war would have on the region. (Broadcast Date: March 12, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Anthony Swofford and Gidon Kremer

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Former soldier Anthony Swofford and violinist and conductor Gidon Kremer on this edition of Fresh Air. Anthony Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. As such, he was on the frontline. He's written the new memoir, Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. Swofford attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He's currently a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient. Gidon Kremer began studying violin at the age of four and later attended the Moscow Conservatory. Over the years he's been awarded the most prestigious violinist prizes including the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow and the Paganini Competition in Genoa. He has more than one hundred recordings to his credit. His latest is Happy Birthday. In 1996, Kremer founded the Kremerata Baltica, a chamber orchestra to foster outstanding musicians from the three Baltic States - which has toured and recorded. (Broadcast Date: March 4, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Aminatta Forna and John Kander

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Writer Aminatta Forna and composer John Kander on this edition of Fresh Air. When she was 10 years old, Aminatta Forna's father, a doctor and advocate for democracy in Sierra Leone, was executed for treason. As an adult, Forna returned to Sierra Leone to investigate the circumstances surrounding her father's death. Her memoir is The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest. Forna is a broadcast journalist living in London. With his writing partner, Fred Ebb, John Kander wrote the music for the original Broadway musical Chicago. The movie version of Chicago is nominated for 13 Academy Awards this year. Kander and Ebb are nominated for their song "I Move On." Kander and Ebb also wrote the music for the shows Cabaret, Woman of the Year, and the Martin Scorsese movie musical New York, New York. (Broadcast Date: February 26, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Thomas Ricks and Vernon Loeb

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Journalists Thomas Ricks and Vernon Loeb on this edition of Fresh Air. They cover the military for The Washington Post. They'll discuss military preparedness for the war with Iraq. They collaborated on the special report "Unrivaled Military Feels Strains of Unending War: For U.S. Forces, a Technological Revolution and a Constant Call to Do More." In it they said, "The more capable the U.S. military has become, the more it has been asked to do, and now strains are beginning to show." (Broadcast Date: February 19, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Bob Dole and Jason Epstein

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Former Presidential hopeful, Senator Bob Dole and editor/publisher Jason Epstein on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Bob Dole's's the best selling author of Great Political Wit. His new book, called Great Presidential Wit (_I Wish I was in the Book, is a collection of funny anecdotes and quotations by or about American Presidents. Dole was the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history. He is currently serving as the chairman of the World War II Memorial campaign and as chairman of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia. Dole was also a commentator for Comedy Central's Indecision 2000. In Jason Epstein's new book Book Business, he gives his insider's take on publishing today. He also talks about how publishing has changed since he entered the business in the early 1950s. Early in his career, Epstein created Anchor Books, which is said to have helped establish the trade paperback format. Epstein was also editorial director of Random House and has edited many well-known novelists including Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, and Gore Vidal. (Original Broadcast Date: January 25, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ahmed Rashid

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid on this edition of Fresh Air. He has just returned from several weeks in Afghanistan. His book, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, is now out in paperback. He's also the author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Rashid is a correspondent for The Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph, reporting on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. (Broadcast Date: February 12, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Daniel Handler

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Writer Daniel Handler on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Daniel Handler is the author (under the name Lemony Snicket) of the children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events featuring the orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. In each of the eight books so far, the orphans face increasing misfortune, from being pursued by an evil Count out to get their inheritance, to undergoing unnecessary surgery. Handler's books are filled with literary references and in-jokes that only adults would get. When The Hostile Hospital his latest book in the series debuted, it knocked the newest Harry Potter book off the top of The New York Times children's best seller list. (Original Broadcast Date: December 10, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Olivia Judson and Barry Clifford

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford's new book is The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy. The lost fleet was a group of French ships that sank in 1678 on the reef of Las Aves Island, one hundred miles off the Venezuelan coast. The fleet, as well as a small pirate army, was shipwrecked. The event launched "the golden age of piracy" that plagued mariners for fifty years. Clifford researched the disaster and was part of the team that located the armada. Clifford's previous book is Expedition Whydah. His explorations have been the subject of documentaries by the BBC, the National Geographic Society, and PBS. (Original Broadcast Date: August 13, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Terry Gilliam and Simon Russell

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Writer and director Terry Gilliam and British actor Simon Russell Beale on this edition of Fresh Air. Terry Gilliam's new film is Lost in La Mancha. It's a documentary about Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt the story of Don Quixote to the screen. The film Gilliam was supposed to make was titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort. Gilliam is a former member of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe and was responsible for the Monty Python TV show's quirky animation. He went on to write and direct such films as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel. Simon Russell Beale is currently performing in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's concurrent productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya. Beale is a member of London's acclaimed Donmar Warehouse company. Beale has won a number of Olivier Awards (the most prestigious London theater honor) and has appeared in several films, including An Ideal Husband and The Temptation of Franz Schubert. (Broadcast Date: January 30, 2003)

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