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Title: Fresh Air, David Briggs, Charlie Parsons, and Anna Brakenhielm

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Two of the most popular shows on television are U.S. versions of shows originated in Britain. Fresh Air's Terry Gross talks with the people behind them on this edition. David Briggs is the creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which premiered on British television in September 1998 and thereby set the phrase (or its translation) "Is that your final answer?" into orbit. The show's format has been licensed in 80 countries including India, Japan, Greece, and of course, the U.S. Charlie Parsons invented the reality format show Survive, but couldn't get any interest for it in Britain. In 1996, Strix Television in Sweden bought the format rights for Survive, and went on to produce Expedition Robinson. It has become the most successful and controversial TV series in Scandinavia. Anna Brakenhielm is managing director of Strix Television and the woman behind Expedition Robinson. It's now in its fifth season.

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Title: Fresh Air, Rudolph Tanzi

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Alzheimer's expert Dr. Rudolph Tanzi on this edition of Fresh Air. He's professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Genetic and Aging Unit. In the early 80s, Tanzi worked on an experiment that made disease genes identifiable. Since then, Tanzi has been on the forefront of Alzheimer research. His new book is called Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease. (Broadcast Date: January 29, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Clayborne Carson, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy and Barbara Lynn

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Historian Clayborne Carson, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, and Rhythm and Blues musician Barbara Lynn on this edition of Fresh Air Clayborne Carson is director of Stanford University's King Papers Project, dedicated to editing and publishing all the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Carson is the co-editor of the new book A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr a collection of eleven speeches delivered at turning points in the civil rights movement. Maxwell Taylor Kennedy is the youngest son of the late Robert Kennedy. He edited a collection of his father's private journal entries called Make Gentle The Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. He reads from the speech his father gave on the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Left-handed guitarist Barbara Lynn was one of the first female practioners of the instrument. Her signature song is the 1962 hit "You'll Lose a Good Thing." The Rolling Stones recorded her song "Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Going)" in 1964. After a lengthy hiatus to raise a family, Lynn made a come back in 1986. Her new album is Hot Night Tonight. (Broadcast Date: January 15, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Bill Bradley and Muriel Gillick

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Title: Fresh Air, Stephen Handelman

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-00

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Reporter and author Stephen Handleman on this edition of Fresh Air. For the many bureaucrats, corrupt army generals, black market racketeers, and others who held power and wealth in the old Soviet system, making a buck has never been easier. Organized crime is in the downside of free enterprise in the new Russia. The Russian mob, "Red Fellas", to borrow a phrase from The New Republic, is the subject of the 1997 release Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya, by reporter Stephen Handleman. (Original Broadcast Date: 1997)

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Title: Fresh Air, Christine Baranski and Benjamin Miller

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-00

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Actress Christine Baranski and garbage expert Benjamin Miller on this edition of Fresh Air. Baranski is probably best known for her work on the TV series Cybill, in which she played Maryann, the best friend of Cybill Shepherd. She's currently starring in the TV sitcom Welcome to New York. She also plays Martha May Whovier in the new film Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She's won two Emmys, an American Comedy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Tonys for her theater performances. Her film credits include Bowfinger, Cruel Intentions, and The Birdcage. Her plays include The Real Thing and The House of Blue Leaves. Miller discusses the history of rubbish in New York. He's the former director of policy planning for the New York City Department of Sanitation. He's just written a book on the subject, entitled Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York - The Last 200 Years. Miller says that the dumping of garbage has literally shaped New York City as it took over surrounding islands and bulked up Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. (Broadcast Date: December 18, 2000)

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Title: Fresh Air, Eric Schmitt and Bernard Weissberger

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-00

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Reporter Eric Schmitt and historian Bernard Weissberger on this edition of Fresh Air. Schmitt covers Capitol Hill for The New York Times. He'll talk about the new Congress and power sharing in the 50/50 Senate. Schmitt will also talk about how the just resolved Presidential election - along with a truncated transition period for George W. Bush - may effect political decision making on the Hill. Weissberger is the author of America Afire. The book chronicles the political tumult surrounding the Presidential Election of 1800 between Adams and Jefferson. As in this election, a voting glitch caused confusion. Neither candidate was willing to concede. Weissberger compares the events then, at the birth of the Constitution, to the Gore v. Bush controversy now. He has written more than a dozen books and works on documentaries with Bill Moyers and Ken Burns. (Broadcast Date: December 14, 2000)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ang Lee and Michelle Yeow

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-00

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Film director Ang Lee and actress Michelle Yeow on this edition of Fresh Air. Ang Lee's new movie is Crouching Tiger, Killing Dragon, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeow. He also co-produced the film. Lee is best known for his English-language dramas such as Sense and Sensibility, the Jane Austen novel adaptation, as well as the Chinese-American themed Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet. In Crouching Tiger, Lee brings an art-house sensibility to the Hong Kong martial arts genre. Actress Michelle Yeow's been called Asia's foremost female action star. She's the lead in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Killing Dragon. Yeow has starred in many films including Supercop with Jackie Chan and the 007 thriller Tomorrow Never Dies. Yeow is also a film producer. She is a native of Ipoh, Malaysia, and was once Miss Malaysia. (Broadcast Date: December 5, 2000)

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Title: Fresh Air, Nick Park, Peter Lord, Freddy Roman, and Jeffrey Ross

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-00

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Co-directors/co-producers of Chicken Run Nick Park and Peter Lord, Dean of the New York Friars' Club Freddy Roman, and comic Jeffrey Ross on this edition of Fresh Air. Park is the academy award-winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace and Gromit. Lord is Chairman and co-founder of the clay animation studios Aardman, where Park created his short films featuring Wallace and Gromit (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave.) The two collaborated on their first full-length feature film, Chicken Run, an animated escape film with chickens as the escapers. (Original Broadcast Date: June 19, 2000) The 1999 documentary film, Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars provides an inside look at the club where show business entertainers meet and then roast each other. Such comic luminaries as George Burns, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, as well as entertainers Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, and Irving Berlin were members of the Friars club. Listen back to an interview with two current members of the Friars - Dean Freddy Roman and comic Jeffrey Ross. Both are featured in the documentary. (Original Broadcast Date: October 25, 2000)

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Title: Fresh Air, S.V. Date and Don Foster

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-00

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Journalist S.V. Date and literary forensics expert Don Foster on this edition of Fresh Air. S.V. Date is based in Florida where he is Tallahassee bureau chief for The Palm Beach Post. He discusses the recount in Florida for the presidential election. Date is also the author of the novel Smokeout. Named the first literary detective of all time, Don Foster uncovered the identity of Joe Klein as the Anonymous writer of 1996's Primary Colors. His book is Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous which details the techniques he uses to identify writers behind anonymous books and documents. He teaches English at Vassar College. (Broadcast Date: November 9, 2000)

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