Terry Gross

On this edition, Fresh Air pays tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80....

Illustrator Marjane Satrapi and guitar legend Jimmy Page on this edition of Fresh Air. Marjane Satrapi is the author of the memoir, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood...

Actor Christopher Walken, Reverend Louis Sheldon and Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign on this edition of Fresh Air...

Singer and Songwriter Tom Waits on this archive edition of Fresh Air....

Fresh Air continues its Holiday Week of Songs from Broadway and Hollywood....

Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Called one of the greatest improvisers in the history of jazz...

Religion scholar Bart D. Ehrman on this edition of Fresh Air....

Actress Jodie Foster on this edition of Fresh Air. Jodie Foster produced and acts in the new film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys....

Middle East historian David Fromkin on this edition of Fresh Air. David Fromkin is a professor of International Relations, International Law, and Middle Eastern Politics at Boston University....

Voice and acting coach Patsy Rodenburg and fashion journalists Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine on this edition....

Hear singer/songwriter Ray Davies on this edition of Fresh Air....

Fresh Air guest host Barbara Bogaev talks with actor Michael C. Hall from HBOs Six Feet Under. He plays David Fisher, the gay brother who co-runs a funeral home on the show. He's currently starring as Billy Flynn, an oily attorney in the Broadway revival of Chicago. James Earl Jones, of the astounding voice, talks about his memoir. And you'll hear a review of the foreign film Mostly Martha.

Poet and memoirist Mary Karr on this archive edition of Fresh Air. In a follow up to Liar's Club, what critics call "a hard scrabble childhood...

On this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross talks with Iranian born novelist Salar Abdoh, author of The Poet Game....

Former WWII P.O.W. Eric Lomax and Cajun musicians Luderin Darbone and Ben Sandmel on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Eric Lomax was captured by the Japanese during World War II....

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...

Actress, writer, comedians Ellen Degeneres and Andy Richter on this edition of Fresh Air...

The Broadway musical The Producers has opened on Broadway, based on the Mel Brooks movie. It stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick...

Author Jonathan Lethem and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal on this edition of Fresh Air. Jonathan Letham's new semi-autobiographical novel....

Authors Dalton Conley and Niall Ferguson on this edition of Fresh Air. Dalton Conley is the author of the memoir, Honky, about growing up white in a predominately African American...