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Country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs and Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chorn-Pond on this edition of Fresh Air. Ricky Skaggs has a new album out called The Three Pickers, and it features Skaggs playing along with Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson.

On this edition, Fresh Air pays tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Terry Gross speaks with music writer Peter Guralnick and songwriter and singers Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Peter Guralnick is the author of a two volume biography of Elvis Presley: Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love.

Professor Charles Kupchan and TV host and writer Ruby Wax on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Kupchan's new book, "The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century, Kupchan argues that the era of American dominance may be coming to an end; this demise will not be brought on by the Islamic world or China but from an integrated Europe.

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with the late writer Carol Shields from the Fresh Air archive. In this interview, Carol Shields discusses her life, her work, and her diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her best-selling novel The Stone Diaries. She died on July 16, 2003. Her last novel, Unless was written after her diagnosis.

Hear actor Samuel L. Jackson and music critic Milo Miles on this edition of Fresh Air. In his new film Resurrecting the Champ, Samuel L. Jackson plays a homeless, broken-down former heavyweight-contending boxer. It's based on the true story of Battling Bob Satterfield.

Audible® was not granted digital rights to today's entire program. We bring you the artistic director of New York City Center's Encores! Jack Viertel, on this edition of Fresh Air. New York City Center's Encores! revives vintage Broadway musicals in very limited-run performances, with minimal staging and actors reading from scripts.

Former White House adviser David Gergen on this edition of Fresh Air. Gergen worked with Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He left politics and become a regular analyst on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer and Nightline. He is also editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report. His new book is Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership.

Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson and explorer Barry Clifford on this archive episode of Fresh Air. Olivia Judson, in her guide to the evolutionary biology of sex, explores the sex lives of animals and insects. Posing as Dr. Tatiana, sex-advice columnist, she answers "letters" posted by such creatures as the fairy wren, the stalk-eyed fly, and the African elephant. Her new book is Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. Judson has also written for The Economist, Nature, and Science.

Writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford's new book is...

Professor and writer Azar Nafisi on this edition of Fresh Air. Nafisi taught English literature at the University of Tehran and Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil. She left Iran in 1997 and is now a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Actress Jodie Foster and radio personality Garrison Keillor on this edition of Fresh Air. Jodie Foster's film Panic Room is now on video and DVD. Recently she produced and acted in the film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Foster has won two Oscars for performances in The Silence of the Lambs and The Accused. She was also nominated for her work in Taxi Driver and Nell. She's also served as producer or director on numerous films.

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.

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Journalist David Cay Johnston on this edition of Fresh Air. Last month he won a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.

Actor, director, screenwriter Billy Bob Thornton and British comedian Eddie Izzard on this edition of Fresh Air.

Filmmaker Mike Hodges and actors Michael Caine and John Spencer on this edition of Fresh Air. Hodges debut work, the 1971 Get Carter starring Michael Caine, was hailed as the greatest British thriller ever. A new remake of Get Carter is out in theatres, starring Sylvester Stallone, with an appearance by Caine. Hodges also directed the recent film Croupier.

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.

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.

An expert in climate change research, Paul Mayewski and science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper on this edition of Fresh Air.

Hear comedian Demetri Martin and actor Anthony Anderson on this edition of Fresh Air. Demetri Martin's new DVD is called Person, and it's his one-hour Comedy Central special that aired earlier this year. Martin is best known for his appearances on The Daily Show with John Stewart. He's also written for the Conan O'Brien Show, for which he garnered an Emmy nomination.