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Hear columnist Bob Sullivan and rock historian Ed Ward on this edition of Fresh Air. Bob Sullivan covers Internet scams and consumer fraud for MSNBC.com and appears regularly on NBC Nightly News. His new book is about the hidden fees found in many phone, cable, credit card, and other bills. It is Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day - And What You Can Do About It.

Hear British singer/songwriter Nick Lowe and rock critic Ken Tucker, on this edition of Fresh Air. Nick Lowe performs and has a conversation. His best known songs include "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding", "Cruel to be Kind", and "The Beast in Me" (which Johnny Cash recorded). Lowe's new album is At My Age. In the early 1970s, Lowe played London's pub rock scene in the band Brinsley Schwarz.

Fresh Air continues its Holiday Week of Songs from Broadway and Hollywood with an interview with singer-songwriter Randy Newman and comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks. Randy Newman is best known for his hit songs "Short People," and "I Love L-A." He's written for a number of films including, Ragtime, Avalon, The Natural, Toy Story, Babe and Seabiscuit. He's received fourteen Oscar nominations and was given the Academy Award in 2002.

Hear actor and director Clark Johnson and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Johnson directed the pilot and several episodes of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. He also appears on camera this season. Johnson directed episodes of the cop shows The Shield and Homicide: Life on the Street. He got his start in 1981, appearing in feature films, including Wild Thing, Adventures in Babysitting, and Nowhere to Hide.

Pop star Boy George and photographer Marion Ettlinger on this archive edition of Fresh Air. In 1982, Boy George and his band Culture Club first hit the charts with "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" and that was the beginning of his rise to gender-bending pop icon.

Retired U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut Captain Jerry Linenger talks about the awe and peril of space travel on this edition of Fresh Air. He spent five months on the Russian Space station MIR and wrote about the account in his book, Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir.

Robert Ludlum's string of best sellers, such as The Bourne Identity, The Osterman Weekend, and The Icarus Agenda established him as one of literature's most successful espionage novelists. Terry Gross interviewed Ludlum on March 10, 1988.

Hear business columnist Gretchen Morgenson, TV producer Adam Fierro, intelligence expert (retired) Colonel Stuart Herrington, and human-rights advocate David Danzig on this edition of Fresh Air. Morgenson has covered the financial markets for The New York Times since 1988. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. She is also assistant business and financial editor for the Times.

Journalist James Fallows on this edition of Fresh Air. Fallows is the National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, a regular commentator on NPR, and a licensed pilot. In his new book Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel, he looks into the technological innovations which will change airline travel.

Hear TV writer and producer Ed Burns, and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. Ed Burns drew on his experience as a former Baltimore detective and teacher to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season. It's a crime drama with a central theme of surveillance technology used to capture drug dealers. In 2003 the show won a Peabody Award.

Journalist Keith Bradsher and novelist Rohinton Mistry on this edition of Fresh Air. Keith Bradsher is the former Detroit bureau chief of The New York Times and the author of the book High and Mighty: SUVs: the World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got that Way. Bradsher finds that sport utility vehicles are dangerous not only for their occupants but for those who share the road with them. Novelist Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and now lives in Canada.

Hear film director David Cronenberg, actor Viggo Mortensen, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead, Grammy winning record producer Joel Dorn, and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen teamed up again for the thriller Eastern Promises. It is released on DVD on December 23rd. The film takes place in London and is about the underworld sex-trafficking industry.

Ravi Shankar and his 18-year-old daughter Anoushka on this edition of Fresh Air. Ravi Shankar, the world's leading sitar player, is celebrating his 80th birthday with a "Full Circle" tour of performances across the U.S. Host Barbara Bogave talks with Ravi Shankhar and later she's joined by his daughter. Anoushka Shankhar has a new CD which includes duets with her father, Anourag (Angel).

Hear artist Chuck Close, actor Richard Gere, rock historian Ed Ward, and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Chuck Close has been called "the most methodical artist that has ever lived in America" and the "reigning portraitist of the Information Age". He creates jumbo-size faces on canvas (8 or 9 feet high), copying them from photographs. They are painted in a dotted faux-pointillist style.

Ian Katz, the features editor at the Guardian in London, and Baghdad blogger Salam Pax on this edition of Fresh Air. Katz traced and verified the identity of the Baghdad blogger for the Guardian. Salam Pax is a pseudonym - a combination of the Arabic and Latin words for peace.

On this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks about the turmoil in Israel with Newsweek's Middle East bureau chief, Christopher Dickey.

Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison and an archive interview with actor David Paymer on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Jamison is an authority on manic-depression and suicide.

Political commentator and former Republican Strategist Kevin Phillips and Afghani filmmaker Siddiq Barmack on this edition of Fresh Air. Phillips is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio. And he's the author of nine books, including The Politics of Rich and Poor. In his new book, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, he takes a good look at the Bush family legacy.

The New York Times investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald on this edition of Fresh Air. He covered the Enron scandal for the paper as well as related scandals. He's written about white-collar crime and corporate corruption for The Times for more than a decade. Eichenwald is a two-time winner of the prestigious George Polk award for excellence in journalism. He's also the author of The Informant, about the Archer Daniels Midland Corporation.

Actor and comedian Martin Short and British journalist and documentarian John Ronson on this edition of Fresh Air. Martin Short's TV series.