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Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with record producer and songwriter Neil Innes and actress Joan Cusack for this edition of Fresh Air. Neil Innes is a founding member of the comedy-rock group "The Bonzo Dog Band". He's also a member of "The Rutles", the band that he and Eric Idle of Monty Python created as a spoof of the Beatles.

Journalist Peter Maass on this edition of Fresh Air. In this week's New York Times Magazine cover story, Maass writes about Major John Nagl, a professor at West Point and a counterinsurgency expert who's putting his theories about counterinsurgency into practice for the first time. He's in Iraq with a tank battalion in the Sunni Triangle.

Former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Suskind on this edition of Fresh Air. The two have collaborated on the new book, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill. The book chronicles his nearly two years with the Bush administration.

Tammy Faye Messner and record executive Simon Cowell on this edition of Fresh Air. Tammy Faye Messner, along with her ex-husband Jim Bakker, built the Praise the Lord televangelist network. Record executive Simon Cowell is one of the judges on the talent show, American Idol, a spin-off of the show he co-created in Britian, Pop Idol.

Fresh Air celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by talking with Shirley Ann Barnhard, Clayborne Carson, and James Farmer. Shirley Ann Barnhard is a staff member and tour guide at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was once co-pastor with his father. Clayborne Carson is founding director of the King Papers Project. James Farmer is the co-founder of CORE, the Congress On Racial Equality.

Author Paul Auster on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is Oracle Night. Auster is the author of 11 novels, three screenplays, five books of poetry, and seven works of nonfiction. His recent works include the best-selling novels The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, and he also edited the NPR National Story Project anthology, I Thought My Father Was God.

Political activist William Greene, Wes Boyd, and Eli Pariser of the liberal group Moveon.org on this edition of Fresh Air. Greene is a founder of the conservative group rightmarch.com. Wes Boyd and Eli Pariser are members of the liberal group Moveon.org.

Peter Landesman, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, on this edition of Fresh Air. Landesman investigated the sex slave industry for this week's cover story, "The Girls Next Door."

Author Charles Lewis, and climber and author Joe Simpson on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Lewis and a team of researchers at the Center for Public Integrity have investigated the financing of all of this year's presidential contenders in the new book The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers - and What They Expect in Return. Joe Simpson wrote the book Touching the Void about his ill-fated climb of Siula Grande mountain in Peru.

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with former major league umpire Ken Kaiser, filmmaker Helen Stickler, and former skateboarder Kenneth Park.

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.

Staff writer and film critic for The New Yorker David Denby, and artist, photographer, and writer Rosemond Purcell on this edition of Fresh Air. Denby's new book, American Sucker, is a memoir about his brief obsession with the stock market during the height of irrational exuberance in 2000-2001. Rosemond Purcell has been called the "doyenne of decay" by sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay.

South African actor and playwright John Kani on this edition of Fresh Air. Kani is best known for his apartheid-era politically-charged collaborations with playwright Athol Fugard. His new play, and his first as a solo playwright, is Nothing But the Truth.

Authors David Frum and Richard Perle on this edition of Fresh Air. They have collaborated on the new book, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror.

Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs and actor Adrien Brody on this edition of Fresh Air. Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs originated the staccato three-finger, five-string banjo technique that became known as the "Scruggs style." Actor Adrien Brody won the Oscar last year for his role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

Comedian and political satirist Al Franken and actor Benicio Del Toro on this edition of Fresh Air. In December, Franken was part of a USO tour performing for troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kuwait. The tour lasted eight days, and he returned Christmas Day. He'll talk about the tour and do some of his routine from it. Franken's books include Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right and Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.

Singer Emmylou Harris and horror writer Peter Straub on this archive edition of Fresh Air.

Writer Simon Winchester on this edition of Fresh Air>. He wrote the best seller The Professor and the Madman.

Cancer researcher John Mendelsohn, M.D.. He is the president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.

South African journalists Howard Barrell and Mondli Makhanya and remembering mouth organist Larry Adler on this edition of Fresh Air.