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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and filmmaker Jon Favreau on this edition of Fresh Air. Last year, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovered a manuscript.

Hear journalist Laura Rozen, food and wine columnist Russ Parsons, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Laura Rozen reports on national security and foreign policy from Washington, D.C., as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a contributor to the Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe, The Economist, the Forward, USA Today, Wired, and other publications.

Lieutenant Colonel Martha McSally and her lawyer, John Whitehead, on this edition of Fresh Air. Martha McSally is our nation's highest-ranking female fighter pilot. Last month, she sued the Defense Department for its policy toward women military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. When traveling off-base women are required to wear traditional Islamic religious clothing, covering themselves from head to foot.

Hear presidential historian Robert Dallek and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Dallek's new book is Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. He writes about two ambitious men who were very different in some ways but very similar in others, describing the two as "self-serving characters with grandiose dreams of recasting world affairs". Dallek is also the best-selling author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy.

Journalist Mark Bowden and film director Andrew Davis on this edition of Fresh Air. Mark Bowden wrote the best seller, Black Hawk Down.

Veteran actress Angela Lansbury on this archive edition of Fresh Air. She's spent over 50 years in the business on stage, and in film and television. When she was 17 she debuted in Gaslight, and was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Ingrid Bergman's Cockney maid.

Want to grow your own fertilizer? Or how about some home-grown weed block? On this week's You Bet Your Garden, host Mike McGrath tells you all about how you can grow soil-saving cover crops. Plus, legendary garden writer Barbara Damrosch talks about growing your own food year-round. And as always, plenty of chemical-free answers to all your garden questions.

No matter how you slice 'em, it's the time of year to enjoy apples! On today's show we take a bite out of fall and get an in-depth look at the art of eating an apple. And if you want to get the most of out of your grill before the winter hits, try breakfast. Then, we take a look at a museum exhibit and the history of Chinese restaurants. Susannah Foo stops by to talk about her Eastern/Western fusion, Corrine Trang gives us tips on rice, and we cook with ginseng.

Hear critic-at-large John Powers and Iraqi activist Yanar Mohammed on this edition of Fresh Air. First, John Powers reports back from his trip to the Cannes Film Festival. Then, Yanar Mohammed, the internationally renowned founder of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq. The organization fights to stop atrocities against women and advocates for women's rights.

Today we're celebrating our pets and learning how to feed them well. But we'll also look at some great ways to feed the humans.

AIDS researcher Timothy Wright, his brother, criminologist Richard Wright, and reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn on this edition of Fresh Air. In 1995, Timothy Wright was in Bolivia conducting AIDS-related research. During Mardi Gras festivities, Wright was assaulted and robbed, and suffered a severe brain injury.

Journalist Mark Bowden on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is called Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the Worlds Greatest Outlaw".

It's the 2002 wrap up on this edition of Fresh Air. Film critic John Powers reviews the year-end movies, book critic Maureen Corrigan offers her list of the best books of 2002, writer John Szwed talks about his new biography of Miles Davis, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews some holiday box sets.

Philadelphia police sergeant Nouman H. Shubbar and actor Philip Baker Hall on this edition of Fresh Air. From May of this year until September, Nouman H. Shubbar was in Iraq helping with the reconstruction of the Iraqi police, forming a special enforcement and investigations team, developing informants and arresting individuals on the coalition forces "wanted" list (those whose faces showed up on the most wanted deck of cards).

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Roy Gutman on this edition of Fresh Air. Roy Gutman is currently Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace where he is on leave from his position as Newsweek Magazine's chief diplomatic correspondent. He is also director of American University's Crimes of War Project. Gutman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his coverage of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he provided the first documented reports of concentration camps.

Filmmakers Peter and Bobby Farrell on this edition of Fresh Air. The two brothers have become practically the brand name for bad taste. Their movies Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, There's Something About Mary, and Shallow Hal, plumbed new depths of tastelessness.

Correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter John Allen and French film director Laurent Cantet on this edition of Fresh Air. John Allen covers the Vatican for the paper and has a regular column, "The View From Rome." This week American Cardinals are meeting in Rome to discuss the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the U.S. Laurent Cantet has made two feature films, both of which focus on the world of work, and the toll that work can take on our lives.

In this encore edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks with engineer Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl. Astaneh is a member of a team assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers to investigate the World Trade Center site. His findings will be used in engineering studies to help improve the structural integrity of buildings. Astanneh also has done research on bomb-resistant designs, following the bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building.

Judith Wallerstein, an expert on the effects of divorce on children, and psychiatrist Dr. Lynn Ponton on this edition of Fresh Air. Wallerstein is the co-author of the book The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce which is based on a 25-year study following the lives of children whose parents had divorced. The book explores how the divorce of their parents decades ago continues to affect them into adulthood. She is also the founder of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition.

Actor and comedian Denis Leary and writer Daniel Harris on this edition of Fresh Air. This Sunday, Leary gets roasted by Comedy Central. He's also starring in the new film The Secret Lives of Dentists. Last year, he starred in the ABC comedy series, The Job.