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Title: Fresh Air, Drs. Eyad El-Sarraj and Ruchama Marton

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Psychiatrist and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj; and psychiatrist, peace activist, and feminist, Dr. Ruchama Marton on this edition of Fresh Air. The Programme is a non-profit Palestinian, non-governmental organization, formed to help families cope with the aftermath of torture and violence. El-Sarraj is well known in the occupied territories and Israel as Gaza's first practicing psychiatrist, and for his efforts to foster co-existence between Arabs and Jews. El-Sarraj is also former Commissioner General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens rights. Dr. Ruchama Marton teaches at the Tel Aviv University Medical School Institute for Psychotherapy. She is also president of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel. (Broadcast Date: July 30, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, David Leavitt and Yehuda Amichai

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Novelist David Leavitt and poet Yehuda Amichai on this archive edition of Fresh Air. David Leavitt's new book is Martin Bauman; or, a Sure Thing. It is a look at the Manhattan publishing scene as viewed through the eyes of 19-year-old Martin Bauman. Leavitt's own first book, Family Dancing, was published when he was just 23. Leavitt's other books include The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, and While England Sleeps.

Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai died Friday at the age of 76. This interview was conducted in 1991. Amichai was a celebrated poet whose subjects were love and loss, and more recently, aging and mortality. The New York Times wrote that he had a "gift for poeticizing the particular: the localized object or image in everyday life." (Original Broadcast Dates: September 25, 2000, and February 27, 1999)

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Title: Fresh Air, David Barstow and Don Van Natta, Jr.

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times reporters David Barstow and Don Van Natta, Jr., on this edition of Fresh Air. They went to Florida following the closest presidential election in history. During a six-month investigation, the two journalists found "under intense pressure from the Republicans, Florida officials accepted hundreds of overseas absentee ballots that failed to comply with state election laws." However, the outcome of the investigation is inconclusive. If all invalid overseas ballots had been thrown out, Bush would have still maintained a narrow margin over Gore. (Broadcast Date: July 19, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Arthur Caplan

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Biomedical ethicist Arthur Caplan, Ph. D. on this edition of Fresh Air. Host Terry Gross and Caplan will discuss human embryos that are being grown by researchers doing stem cell research. Previously, the cells were harvested from aborted fetuses. The idea of fetal farming is quite controversial. Proponents cite the enormous potential for finding cures to cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Opponents are aghast at the notion of using and destroying human life for the sole purpose of research. Caplan is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Trustee Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Engineering and Professor of Philosophy. Caplan has written seven books on bioethical topics, including Ethics and Organ Transplants and Am I My Brother's Keeper? The Ethical Frontiers of Biomedicine. He's consulted for numerous government offices and is a frequent commentator in the national media. (Broadcast Date: July 17, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Walter Kirn and Joanna Merlin

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Editor and writer Walter Kirn and casting director and actress Joanna Merlin on this edition of Fresh Air. Kirn's new novel Up in the Air is about 35-year-old Ryan Bingham, a well-traveled business man who has a goal of accumulating one million miles in his frequent flyer account. Kirn is the literary editor for GQ and a contributing editor to Time and Vanity Fair. His fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. He's also the author of two other novels and a selection of short stories.

And Merlin's written a new guide for actors, Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide. She was the casting director for Harold Prince and his productions of Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and more. She's casted films, as well as acted in films and on television. (Broadcast Date: July 2, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ron Sexsmith

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Singer songwriter Ron Sexsmith, on this edition of Fresh Air. He brings his guitar to the studio. His new album is Blue Boy. Elvis Costello has been a big supporter of Sexsmith, praising his songwriting abilities and bringing him on tour as an opening act. Sexsmith has recorded three other albums. He hails from Toronto, Canada. The second person interviewed for this program, film director and writer Dominik Moll, did not grant rights to his interview. (Broadcast Date: June 5, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Mark Morris

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Dancer/choreographer Mark Morris on this edition of Fresh Air. Early in his career, Morris performed with a variety of companies. He then founded the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980, creating over 90 works for the troupe. He has also staged over a dozen commissions for other ballet companies, including the San Francisco Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre. From 1988-1991, Morris was director of dance for the national opera house of Belgium in Brussels. Morris was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1991, and he is the subject of a biography by Joan Acocella. This spring, the Mark Morris Dance Group is opening the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York. (Broadcast Date: May 21, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Brad Whitford and Henry Sheehan

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Actor Brad Whitford and film critic Henry Sheehan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Whitford plays Josh Lyman, the Deputy Whitehouse Chief of Staff on the NBC drama The West Wing. The show's season finale airs Wednesday, May 16. Whitford began his acting career on the stage. He has also appeared in many films, including Scent of a Woman, Philadelphia, A Perfect World, Revenge of the Nerds II, and Billy Madison. He'll talk about his role on The West Wing, and what its like playing a high-ranking staff member in a fictitious White House. Sheehan talks to Terry Gross from France about this year's Cannes Film Festival. (Broadcast Date: May 16, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Joel Schumacher and Greg Kinnear

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Film director Joel Schumacher and actor Greg Kinnear on this edition of Fresh Air. Joel Schumacher's films include St. Elmo's Fire, The Client, A Time to Kill, and Batman Forever. His latest film, Tigerland, is now out on video. It's about a group of army recruits in training who are about to be shipped off to Vietnam. The film was made on a low budget in 28 days, on 16 millimeter film and mostly with hand-held cameras. In making the film, Schumacher was inspired by the Dogma 95 movement by Danish film director Lars von Trier. The movement rejects Hollywood artifice, abandoning the use of elaborate lighting, special effects, and music. (REBROADCAST from 10/9/00) Greg Kinnear's newest film is Someone Like You. He plays a soap opera star in the film Nurse Betty, which is now out on video. Kinnear's other films include As Good as It Gets (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award) and Sabrina. Kinnear got his start as host and executive producer of Talk Soup on E! Entertainment. Later he hosted his own late-night talk show, Later with Greg Kinnear. (Broadcast Dates: October 9, 2000 and September 14, 2000)

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Title: Fresh Air, Glyn Moody, Mike Judge, and Milo Miles

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Author Glyn Moody, animator Mike Judge, and critic Milo Miles on this edition of Fresh Air. Moody's new book is called Rebel Code. It charts the movement begun by computer programmers who believe software should be given away for free. Moody is a London-based writer whose work has appeared in Wired, The Economist, and The Financial Times. Judge is the creator of, and voice behind, MTV's phenomenon Beavis and Butthead. His current creation is the Fox series King of the Hill, where he provides the voice for the main character, Hank. He's also the writer, director and producer of the cult movie Office Space. A self-taught animator with a physics degree, Judge talks about animation and comedy. King of the Hill is an Emmy-nominated series nearing its 100th episode next week. And, Miles remembers folk musician and guitarist John Fahey who died last week at the age of 61.

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