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Winner of the 2017 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award...

Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military aggression for serious engagement with personal and collective trauma. It applied the horror genre's fascination with personal stories captured by found footage to the grand violence of history. Innovative and intense, Cloverfield represented blockbuster filmmaking at its best.

Van Barnes, whose performance as the "Houston T-Girl" left a huge impression on viewers, shares what it was like to be an actor, set dresser, and transgender consultant on set. In this emotional and charismatic interview, she shares how her involvement in the TransFIRMATIVE action program changed the way Hollywood approaches and represents the transgender movement on set and on-screen - from writers and actors, to art directors and consultants.

Washington correspondent for The New Yorker and author, Jeffrey Goldberg, rock critic Ken Tucker, and film critic David Bianculli, on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Goldberg's new memoir is Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew Across the Middle East Divide. Goldberg won the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2003 for his coverage of terrorism. Then, Ken Tucker reviews White Bread Black Beer the first album in eight years by the post-punk band Scritti Politti.

With insight into the genre’s cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer’s Body as a cult classic.

BBC security correspondent, Gordon Corera, and rock critic, Ken Tucker, on this edition of Fresh Air. Corera is a security correspondent for the BBC. In his new book, he warns that we may be entering a "new era of accelerated proliferation." He writes about the challenges of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons and about A.Q. Khan, the man described by a former CIA Director as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden."

Writers Jed Horne and Edmund White on this edition of Fresh Air. Jed Horne is metro editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. His new book Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. Edmund White has been writing about gay culture in fiction and nonfiction since the 1970s. He has a new autobiography, My Lives. He is the author of over 17 books including a trilogy of autobiographical novels.

Congressmen Tom Cole and Rahm Emanuel, on this edition of Fresh Air. Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma's Fourth District was recently sworn in as Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Journalist Michael Pollan and comedians Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Pollan's new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, follows industrial food, organic food, and food that consumers procure or hunt for themselves, from the source to the dinner plate. It also examines the importance of corn in all of our food products. Pollan is a Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at University of California at Berkeley.

Journalist Michelle Goldberg on this edition of Fresh Air. Goldberg is a senior writer for the online magazine Salon, and covers the Christian Right. Her new book is Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She writes that Christian nationalists believe that the Bible is the absolutely and literally true and they want to see the nation governed by that truth. She writes that the ultimate goal of Christian nationalist leaders isn't fairness. It's dominion.