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Drummer Ahmir Thompson, otherwise known as "?uestlove" of the hip-hop group The Roots and writer Gary Shtenyngart on this edition of Fresh Air. The Grammy award-winning sextet has six albums to its credit. Their latest CD is Phrenolog. Their first single from the album is "Break You Off." The group is just beginning a nationwide tour.

Religious scholar Elaine Pagels talks about the Gospel of Thomas and Middle East energy expert Youssef M. Ibrahim on this edition of Fresh Air. Elaine Pagels latest book, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, is about a religious text that is little known - the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945. She will explain why it was suppressed by the church and kept out of the cannon.

In this edition of Fresh Air, Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio on disposed dictators and journalist Joyce Davis on the views of martyrdom among extremists in the Middle East on this edition of Fresh Air. Riccardo Orizio is the author of the book Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators. He interviewed deposed dictators who haven't apologized for their crimes and weren't rehabilitated.

Host Terry Gross talks with people involved with "Youth Portraits," a radio skills training program for ex-offenders released from Riker's Island prison in New York City on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Riker's Island is the biggest jail in North America.

Journalist James Bennet of The New York Times on this edition of Fresh Air. He's been in the Middle East covering how the crisis there is affecting both Israelis and Palestinians.

Actor Joe Pantoliano on this edition of Fresh Air. He plays Ralph Cifaretto on the HBO series The Sopranos. He has also appeared in more than 60 films, including Memento, The Matrix, and The Fugitive. He has a new memoir called Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy. Pantoliano talks about growing up in Hoboken, New Jersey, and about his acting career. (Broadcast Date: October 1, 2002)

Librettist and New York University professor of theatre Larry Maslon and playwright and actor Vernel Bagneris on this edition of Fresh Air.

Professor Andre Aciman and comedian Margaret Cho on this edition of Fresh Air. Aciman's family was forced to leave Egypt when he was fourteen, during a long wave of anti-Semitism and Arab nationalism.

Journalist Dennis Covington and actor Nicholas Turturro on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Covington has written Salvation on Sand Mountain about the practice of snake handling in a Southern Appalachian church.

Writers Aleksander Hemon and Wayne Barrett on this edition of Fresh Air. Hemon was born in Sarajevo in 1964. While in his early 20s, he came to the United States as a tourist.

Film director Fred Schepisi and documentary film producer Lowell Handler and on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Along with fellow Australian directors Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford, Fred Schepisi was considered one of the leaders of the "Australian New Wave."

Journalist Gary Cohen and attorney Cass Sunstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Gary Cohen's article in this month's Atlantic Monthly is about the World War II case that the Bush administration says sets the precedent for use of military tribunals. Cohen studied 3,000 pages of trial transcripts at the National Archives and the Roosevelt Presidential Library, in Hyde Park, New York, for the article. Cohen is a former member of the investigative unit at U.S. News & World Report.

Doctor Mel Geaves on this edition of Fresh Air. Greaves is the author of Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy. He is also professor of cell biology and director of the Leukemia Research Fund Centre for Cell and Molecular Biologoy at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Lieutenant Colonel Martha McSally and her lawyer, John Whitehead, on this edition of Fresh Air. Martha McSally is our nation's highest-ranking female fighter pilot. Last month, she sued the Defense Department for its policy toward women military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. When traveling off-base women are required to wear traditional Islamic religious clothing, covering themselves from head to foot.

Veteran British journalists Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson on this edition of Fresh Air. They've just collaborated on the new book Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972, about the day 30 years ago when British paratroopers shot 27 unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators in Derry, Ireland, killing 13 of them, wounding 14. Five were shot in the back. Since then the day has been known as Bloody Sunday.

Journalist Barton Gellman and author Sylvia Nasar on this edition of Fresh Air. Barton Gellman of The Washington Post will discuss the Clinton and later the Bush administration's efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and his network prior to September 11th. Gellman wrote a two-part series about it that ran in The Washington Post late last year. Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, the biography of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash.

Former CIA agent Milt Bearden on this edition of Fresh Air. Milt Bearden spent 30 years in the CIA. He ran the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and helped train the Afghan freedom fighters. Bearden also was station chief in Pakistan, Moscow, and Khartoum. He received the CIA's highest honor, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. Since the September 11th attacks, Bearden has been a frequent commentator on TV and in print.

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.

Actors Paul Giamatti and Mark Webber on this edition of Fresh Air. Paul Giamatti stars in the Todd Solondz film Storytelling. He plays an aspiring filmmaker who sets out to document the empty life of a New Jersey high school senior and his well-to-do parents. Giamatti's film credits include Planet of the Apes, Big Momma's House, Saving Private Ryan, and The Truman Show. Mark Webber, 21, is Giamatti's costar in Storytelling.

Author Philip Dray on this edition of Fresh Air. Philip Dray is the author of the book At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. Dray chronicles the incidents of lynching: from 1882-85 the number of whites lynched exceeded the number of blacks. But after 1886 the number of blacks lynched exceeded that of whites. And not until 1952 did a year pass without a single recorded lynching.