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Director and producer Nick Park and Peter Lord, chairman and co-founder of the clay animation studios Aardman on this edition of Fresh Air. Park is the academy award-winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace & Gromit. Park created his short films, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers , and A Close Shave featuring Wallace and Gromit at Aardman studios.

On this edition of Fresh Air, New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer talks about his new book Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. He describes a country caught between the entrenched ruling elite and its younger, well-educated population who want democracy. And, Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's latest.

South African journalist and anti-rape activist Charlene Smith and South African journalist Phillip van Niekerk on this edition of Fresh Air. Statistics say every 26 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa, the country with the fastest growing HIV rate. Last year, Smith was raped, and feared the man who raped her could have given her HIV/AIDS, and she had a hard time obtaining the drugs that could lessen the potential of her getting HIV. Smith then wrote about her experience and helped spread awareness about rape and HIV in South Africa.

Author Martin Amis on this edition of Fresh Air. Amis is considered one of the leading British writers of the late twentieth century and one of the most controversial.

Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show", it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews, and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong and political satirist Christopher Buckley on this edition of Fresh Air. Armstrong is the author of the best selling books The Battle for God, Jerusalem, and The History of God. She'll discuss the religious history of the Middle East, and the significance of the region to the people there. Buckley was George Bush Sr.s speechwriter from 1981-1983 when Bush served as Vice President.

Gambian attorney Fatou Bensouda, Kenya political activist Wangari Maathai, and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Fatou Bensouda is the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (the ICC). The court's first case concerns crimes involving child soldiers. The ICC was set up as a court of last resort to deal with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Bensouda has been a prosecutor for 19 years.

Cage, Keitel, Coppola, and 15 other stars of the stage and screen speak candidly with Fresh Air's Terry Gross in this compilation of classic interviews.

Writer David Sedaris on this edition of Fresh Air. Sedaris is best known for his contributing work with Public Radio's This American Life. He's written three books of essays, Barrel Fever, Naked, and his latest Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Writer David Sedaris and actor Alan Cumming, on this edition of Fresh Air. Sedaris is best known for his contributing work with public radio's This American Life. He's written three books of essays, Barrel Fever, Naked, and his newest Me Talk Pretty One Day which was just released in paperback. Scottish actor Alan Cumming co-wrote, co-directed, and is co-starring in the new film The Anniversary Party, along with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

On this edition of Fresh Air, we remember stage actress and acting teacher Uta Hagen. She died on Wednesday at the age of 84. She taught acting for more than 40 years, teaching such actors as Jack Lemmon, Sigourney Weaver, Matthew Broderick, and the late Geraldine Page.

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights for today's Fresh Air broadcast, we bring you a great archive episode featuring the great singer and pianist Ray Charles, musician Quincy Jones, and saxophonist Hank Crawford. Ray Charles died June 10, 2004, at the age of 73. He was about to go back on tour, but died of complications of liver disease.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg and Army chaplain Ran Dolinger on this edition of Fresh Air. Linguist and Fresh Air commentator Geoff Nunberg's new book is Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show. Nunberg teaches at UC Berkeley's School of Information.

Because Audible was not granted rights to today's broadcast of Fresh Air, we present a great archive interview with singer, songwriter, and guitar player Robbie Fulks. His newest CD is called Georgia Hard. Fulks also has an XM Satellite Radio show called Secret Country on Channel 12.

Writer Robert Sullivan and journalist Bill Minutaglio on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Sullivan's new book is called Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, my wife, my mother-in-law, two kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant. It's a chronicle of his family's cross country trips from Oregon to New York. He's joined by his two children Louise and Sam.

Journalist Juliet Eilperin on her new book Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives.

Plus book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Theft: A Love Story by Australian writer and twice winner of the Booker Prize Peter Carey.

Journalist Daniel Okrent on this edition of Fresh Air. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the first Public Editor, or ombudsman, for The New York Times. His new book, Public Editor #1: The Collected Columns (with Reflections, Reconsiderations, and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times chronicles his tenure and provides a behind the scenes look at America's most respected newspaper. Note: Because of rights issues, this episode is 20 minutes long.

Writer/director Richard Linklater and documentary stars Bill Resler and Devon Crosby Helms on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Linklater's new film, A Scanner Darkly, is based on the book by Philip K. Dick. It's about drug addiction, paranoia, and surveillance. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu Reeves. Linklater is a self-taught director whose other films include Slacker, Dazed & Confused, and The School of Rock.

Actor Brian Cox and physician Paul Epstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Emmy award winner Brian Cox will be appearing on the HBO series Deadwood. He's been in over a hundred films and TV shows over the past 40 years. His films include Match Point, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy and Rushmore. He was a regular guest on Frasier, and he won his Emmy for his role as Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Goering on the TNT channel's movie Nuremberg.

Actor Joseph Cannascoli who played mob captain Vito Spatafore on �The Sopranos�.

John Powers has just returned from The Cannes film festival whre the top prize winner was The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish rebellion against British rule and the country�s subsequent civil war by director Ken Loach.