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Lead singer Big Sandy, author Dr. Esther Sternberg, and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on this edition of Fresh Air. Big Sandy is the lead singer of the Fly Rite Boys, a band that combines rockabilly, western swing, and hillbilly boogie sounds. They are currently on tour and have a new album, Night Tide.

Drs. R. David Zangen and Radgonde Amer and novelist Alice Sebold on this edition of Fresh Air. R. David Zangen, senior pediatrician, and Dr. Radgonde Amer, an ophthalmologist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. They are part of the group of Arab and Jewish doctors who work side by side at the hospital treating victims of suicide bombings and of the Israeli military actions. Alice Sebold's the author of the new book, The Lovely Bones.

Hear Canadian journalist Paul Watson, on this edition of Fresh Air. He won the 1994 Pulitizer Prize for his photograph of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu in Somalia. Watson has also reported from Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Because of his work in war zones he suffers from chronic post-traumatic stress, and he says the photograph he took of the dead soldier in Somalia still haunts him.

Journalist John Burns on this edition of Fresh Air. John BurnsHe is The New York Times Foreign Affairs Correspondent. He's just returned from three weeks in Iraq. In the past, Burns has been posted in China, Bosnia, South Africa and Russia. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes; one was for his reporting on the Taliban.

Drummer Ahmir Thompson and stand-up comic David Cross on this edition of Fresh Air. Ahmir Thompson is also known as "?uestlove" of the hip-hop group The Roots. The Grammy award-winning sextet has six albums to its credit. Their latest CD is Phrenology. Their first single from the album is "Break You Off."

David Cross co-created the 1995 HBO cult hit Mr. Show (an amalgam of live sketch video pieces and occasional animation).

New York Times investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald on this edition of Fresh Air. He's covering the Enron scandal for the paper.

Record producers Charles Granata and Didier Deutsch talking about Frank Sinatra on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Granata and Didier Deutsch have collaborated on the new CD box set, Frank Sinatra In Hollywood (1940-1964) which collects Sinatra's film recordings - many of them rare. In fact, only ten percent of the 160 tracks included on the collection have been released before. Granata is a Sinatra historian and author of Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording.

Retired astronaut Alan Shepard and independent film director, producer, and writer Rose Troche on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Shepard was America's first man in space in 1961; the voyage covered 302 miles and lasted fifteen minutes. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface.

Nicholas Kristof, editorial columnist for The New York Times in this archival edition of Fresh Air. He discusses the North Korea crisis. He has covered North and South Korea off and on since 1986. He's served as the Times bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.

Hear presidential historian Michael Beschloss and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Beschloss' new book is Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. He takes a look at the crucial moments when a President risked his political career for the good of the country, often by taking an unpopular or controversial stand.

Film director Rob Marshall and conductor Paul Bogaev on this edition of Fresh Air. Rob Marshall directed and choreographed the new film adaptation of Chicago. It stars Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and Queen Latifah. Previously, Marshall won an Emmy for Best Choreography for his work on the movie musical Annie.

Filmmaker Mike Hodges and actors Michael Caine and John Spencer on this edition of Fresh Air. Hodges debut work, the 1971 Get Carter starring Michael Caine, was hailed as the greatest British thriller ever. A new remake of Get Carter is out in theatres, starring Sylvester Stallone, with an appearance by Caine. Hodges also directed the recent film Croupier.

Carlo Bonini, of La Repubblica newspaper in Rome, broke the story about the Italian intelligence agency SISMI's involvement in forging and planting documents that stated that Iraq had secured uranium from Niger. Those documents helped President Bush make the case for invading Iraq. Bonini's new book (with Giuseppe D'Avanzo) is Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror.

Dr. Elaine Abrams and Dr. Stephen Nicholas are pediatricians who work with babies born with HIV. Dr. Abrams is the Director of the Family Care Center at Harlem Hospital Center, and Dr. Nicholas is the Director of Pediatrics there. They treated the first wave of babies infected with HIV at the height of the epidemic in Harlem in the 1980s. While many of the children have died, some have survived into adolescence.

Author Jim DeRogatis on this edition of Fresh Air. DeRogatis is the author of Let It Blurt: The Life & Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic. Recently portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Cameron Crowe's movie Almost Famous, Bangs wrote about rock 'n' roll for Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice.

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with the late writer Carol Shields from the Fresh Air archive. In this interview, Carol Shields discusses her life, her work, and her diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her best-selling novel The Stone Diaries. She died on July 16, 2003. Her last novel, Unless was written after her diagnosis.

Editor in chief of Gourmet magazine Ruth Reichl and former deputy commissioner of baseball Stephen Greenberg on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Ruth Reichl's is a former restaurant critic for The New York Times and the author of Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, a memoir of her lifelong passion for food, which was a best seller. She continues her story with the new book Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table.

Hear singer Mary Weiss and singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka on this edition of Fresh Air. Weiss first found fame as a member of the Shangri-Las, with hits like "Leader of the Pack", "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", and "Give Him a Great Big Kiss". In March of this year, she recorded her first album of new material since 1965. It's called Dangerous Game.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong on this edition of Fresh Air. The best-selling author of The History of God and The Battle for God, has a new book, Budda, about the life of Sidhatta Gotam. From North India, Sidhatta Gotama renounced normal life, leaving his wife and child to live alone and attain enlightenment.

Hear actor John C. Reilly, director Jake Kasdan, and songwriter Hugh Martin, on this edition of Fresh Air. The new film Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story is directed by Jake Kasdan, woke up in the middle of the night a couple years ago and had an idea that his next film would be a fake music biopic called Walk Hard.