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Retired Astronaut and former test pilot Alan Shepard and former NASA flight director Chris Kraft on this edition of Fresh Air. Alan Shepard was America's first man in space in 1961; the voyage covered 302 miles and lasted 15 minutes. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface.

British journalist Peter Stothard and fashion journalists Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine on this edition of Fresh Air. Peter Stothard is the author of the new book, Thirty Days: Tony Blair and the Test of History. Stothard chronicles the thirty days between March 10 to April 10, 2003, in the days leading up to the Iraq war and the early days of the war.

Episcopal priest Gene Robinson of New Hampshire on this edition of Fresh Air. He is on the brink of becoming the world's first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church. He was elected by the Diocese of New Hampshire, but the appointment must be approved at the Church's national general convention next week. His nomination has divided the church.

British actress Charlotte Rampling and actor Chris Cooper on this edition of Fresh Air. Charlotte Rampling is known for her great beauty. She was a model before beginning her film career in the sixties with hits such as Georgy Girl and The Damned.

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.

We celebrate the centennial of Bing Crosby's birth with jazz critic and writer Gary Giddins. His biography of Bing Crosby is called, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - the Early Years, 1903-1940. From 1930s to the 50s, Crosby was a pop culture icon, dominating American entertainment with his hit records and movies.

Novelist David Benioff and actor Edward Norton on this edition of Fresh Air. David Benioff is the author of 25th Hour. It's about a drug dealer who has one day left on the outside before beginning his seven-year prison sentence. It's the basis of the Spike Lee film of the same name. Edward Norton stars. 25th Hour is just out on video. Edward Norton's new film is The Italian Job. Norton has played Larry Flynt's lawyer in The People Vs. Larry Flynt, and received an Academy Award nomination for his role as a skin head in American History X.

Journalist Andrew Meldrum and journalist, lecturer, human rights activist Samantha Powers on this edition of Fresh Air. Andrew Meldrum was recently abducted and expelled from Zimbabwe by government authorities. He had been the Guardian's Zimbabwe correspondent, and was the last foreign journalist allowed to file from the country. Samantha Power was the founding executive director of the Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

Journalist Thomas Ricks on this edition of Fresh Air. He covers the military for The Washington Post. He recently returned from Iraq where he was semi-embedded with troops in Baghdad. (Broadcast Date: June 10, 2003)

Actor B.D. Wong and film director John Waters on this edition of Fresh Air. B.D. Wong has starred on Broadway in M. Butterfly, and in the TV series Law & Order: SVU, and HBO's Oz. He's the author of the new book: Following Foo (the electronic adventures of the Chestnut Man). It's about the premature birth of his twin sons in August 2000. The babies were born three months early to a surrogate mother. Wong and his partner, Richie were the parents. The twins suffered a rare medical disorder.

Senator and former first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton and, for Father's Day, famous dads and sons talk about their relationships on this edition of Fresh Air. First, in Hillary Clinton's new memoir, Living History, she writes about growing up in the 1950s, her life in the White House, the Senate, and the sexual scandal that almost ended her marriage and her husband's presidency. Then, saxophonist Branford Marsalis talks about his father, jazz great Ellis Marsalis.

Investigative researcher Charles Lewis and Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Lt. Col. Gene Pollack on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Lewis is the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C., similar to an investigative journalism outfit but without time and space constraints. Its mission is to expose corruption and power abuse by governments, corporations and individuals. Lewis will talk about the ties between members of the Bush Administration and the defense industry, and questions of conflict of interest regarding lucrative contracts to rebuild Iraq.

Paleoanthropologist Tim White on this edition of Fresh Air. Tim White was the co-leader of the team that discovered three very important skulls in Ethiopia. The human remains can be dated to 160,000 to 154,000 years old. They are evidence of the earliest ancestors of modern humans. They add evidence to the theory that modern humans emerged in Africa and are not related to Neanderthals, who lived in Europe. The discovery is considered quite significant.

Executive producer and writer of HBO's Oz Tom Fontana and psychology professor Paul Ekman on this edition of Fresh Air. Tom Fontana is responsible for Oz, the realistic drama about life in an experimental unit of a maximum security prison. Fontana also created Homicide: Life on the Street and the 1980s drama set in a city hospital, St. Elsewhere.

Writer Neil Baldwin and remembering poet Lucy Grealy on this edition of Fresh Air. Baldwin is executive director of the National Book Foundation and author of the book, Henry Ford and the Jews, in which he details Ford's early obsession with moralistic writings condemning Jews for not accepting Christ. Grealy died in December 2002 at the age of 39. As a child, she spent five years being treated for cancer, which left her face disfigured.

Fresh Air continues its "Holiday Week of Songs from Broadway and Hollywood with the children of famous songwriters" series with Broadway producer and director Jamie Hammerstein and photographer Jimmy McHugh. In addition, from Audible's Fresh Air archives, a recent interview with country musician Charlie Louvin on this edition of Fresh Air.

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.

Fresh Air continues its "Holiday Week of Songs from Broadway and Hollywood" by branching out a bit to include TV music for children. First, Terry Gross speaks with Bob Dorough was the musical director of the 1970s educational TV series, School House Rock and composer of the popular song "Three is a Magic Number." The CD, Schoolhouse Rock Rocks, was released with contemporary artists such as Blind Melon, Lemonheads and Pavement, playing the old songs.

Drummer Ahmir Thompson and stand-up comic David Cross on this edition of Fresh Air. Ahmir Thompson is also known as "?uestlove" of the hip-hop group The Roots. The Grammy award-winning sextet has six albums to its credit. Their latest CD is Phrenology. Their first single from the album is "Break You Off."

David Cross co-created the 1995 HBO cult hit Mr. Show (an amalgam of live sketch video pieces and occasional animation).

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with pioneering Bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley and music journalist and filmmaker Robert Gordon from the Fresh Air archive.