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Title: Fresh Air, Tom and Ray Magliozzi

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Title: Fresh Air, Barry Hannah and Andrew Meldrum

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Writer Barry Hannah and journalist Andrew Meldrum on this archive edition of Fresh Air. A native of Mississippi, Barry Hannah has been writing short stories and novels set in the South for over thirty years. Truman Capote once called him "the maddest writer in the U.S.A." His first book, the autobiographical novel Geronimo Rex won the William Faulkner Prize for writing. He followed that with Airships, a collection of short stories now considered a classic. He continued to publish more short story collections and novels, though his 2001 novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan was his first in ten years. Journalist Andrew Meldrum is the Guardian's Zimbabwe correspondent. He covered the presidential election in Zimbabwe and was jailed for 33 days for violating the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which punishes journalists for publishing "falsehoods." The law was one of several instituted by President Mugabe in a crackdown on the media. Original broadcast dates: July 31, 2001, May 23, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Comics Ahmed Ahmed, Maz Jobrani and dancer Sheema Kermani

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Stand up comics Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani and Pakistani dancer Sheema Kermani on this edition of Fresh Air. Ahmed is Egyptian-American, and Jobrani is Iranian-American. They've changed their routines since September 11th, cracking jokes about attending flight school and the like. Both have had small parts as terrorists in action films. Jobrani was in a Chuck Norris film and Ahmed was Terrorist #4 in Executive Decision. They live in Los Angeles. Sheema Kermani's performances are rare in Pakistan, and tightly controlled by the government. She practices Indian classical dance, a sensual form of movement that goes against Islamic fundamentalist attitudes toward women and their bodies. Kermani graduated from Croydon College of Art in London and started dancing in Karachi with the Ghanshyan's Dance Troupe. She then went to India to train under several masters of Indian classical dance. She has performed all over the world. She's choreographed two major works. She appears on television and works with the politically oriented Mobile Theater group in Karachi. (Broadcast Date: June 20, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Dennis Lehane and Phil Jackson

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Crime novelist Dennis Lehane and Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson on this edition of Fresh Air. Dennis Lehane's written five novels featuring the working-class Boston private detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. They include A Drink Before the War, Darkness Take My Hand, and Prayers for Rain. Lehane abandons the duo for his newest book about the affect of abduction on a group of boys. It's a thriller, Mystic River. A critic with The New York Times writes of the book, "This one is terrific: soulful, atmospheric, suspenseful and propelled by deep, wrenching emotions." Phil Jackson has already won 9 NBA championship rings; He led the Lakers to the championship last year, and he also won 6 with the Chicago Bulls. He has coached NBA greats Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant. Jackson's latest book is More than a Game, written with Charley Rosen. (Original Broadcast Dates: March 14, 2001 and June 12, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Joel Meyerowitz and Alec Wilkinson

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and writer Alec Wilkinson on this edition of Fresh Air. Since September 11th, Meyerowitz has taken over 7000 photographs of Ground Zero. He gained unlimited access to the site and did so in conjunction with the Museum of the City of New York. A selection of those pictures can be seen in the May 20 issue of the New Yorker. Wilkinson is the author of new memoir, My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell (Houghton Mifflin) about his relationship with writer and editor Maxwell. Maxwell was fiction editor for the New Yorker from 1936-1976 and worked with such authors as J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of others. Maxwell was the author of a number of novels as well as several short story collections. Wilkinson is a staff writer for the New Yorker, and has been there since 1980. He's the author of several books including, Midnights, Moonshine, and Big Sugar. We'll listen to a rebroadcast of a 1995 interview with Maxwell and to an interview with Wilkinson shortly after Maxwell's August 2000 death. (Broadcast Dates: May 15, 2002 and May 10, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Christopher Dickey from Newsweek

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

On this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks about the turmoil in Israel with Newsweek's Middle East bureau chief, Christopher Dickey.

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Title: Fresh Air, Jeffrey Goldberg and Harry Shearer

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and writer, actor, director, comedian, and radio host Harry Shearer on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Goldberg's article in the current New Yorker magazine is about Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks on the Kurds in 1988. There is also new evidence of Hussein's ties to Al Qaeda. Goldberg has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000. His specialty is foreign reporting with an emphasis on Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Goldberg came to The New Yorker from The New York Times magazine, where he reported from Africa and the Middle East. Harry Shearer's new film, which he wrote and directed, is called Teddy Bear's Picnic. It's a satire of the goings-on at the Bohemian Grove, an exclusive retreat in the Northern California woods. The richest and most powerful men gather in the Grove. Their activities are kept secret, but a lot of drinking is involved. Shearer visited the Grove in order to write the script. Picnic opens March 29. Shearer hosts Le Show, now in its 19th year on public radio. (Broadcast Date: March 27, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, David Cay Johnston

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Journalist David Cay Johnston on this edition of Fresh Air. Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the U.S. tax code. He writes about tax inequities, tax loopholes, and the IRS for The New York Times. He will talk about how Enron and other large corporations get away with not paying taxes, and how the current economy and the war against terrorism will effect the proposed tax cuts. (Broadcast Date: January 23, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Vicki Wickham and Bob Balaban

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Biographer Vicki Wickham and actor/producer Bob Balaban on this archive edition of Fresh Air. With writer Penny Valentine, Vicki Wickham recently published Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield. Wickham was Springfield's close friend and manager for over a decade of Springfield's career.

Actor and producer Bob Balaban has appeared in over 50 movie and television spots, directed for television, and produced three full-length films. His latest project is Gosford Park, a Robert Altman whodunnit set in an English manor. The film is up for several Golden Globe awards. Balaban produced and appears in it. (Original broadcast date: January 2, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Neil Baldwin

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Writer Neil Baldwin on this edition of Fresh Air. Neil Baldwin is the author of the new book Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate. In the book he details Ford's early obsession with moralistic writings condemning Jews for not accepting Christ. Shortly before World War I and continuing into the '30s, he wrote a series of venomous antisemitic essays in the newspaper The Dearborn Independent (which he owned). In 1928 he collected many of the essays published in 1920 under the title The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem. He also published The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Baldwin is executive director of the National Book Foundation. He's also the author of Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God, Edison: Inventing the Century, and Man Ray: American Artist. (Broadcast date: January 14, 2002)