Terry Gross

He first made his mark playing in the Bill Evans trio, along with bass player Scott LaFaro; he was featured on the now-historic 1961 Evans recordings at the Village Vanguard, as well as on Portrait of Jazz. Motian also recorded with Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley, and he leads his own bands as well. Rebroadcast from March 13, 2006.

His plays and movies include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Goodbye Girl, The Out-of-Towners, and The Sunshine Boys. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Lost in Yonkers. Rebroadcast from Oct. 17, 1996.

Actress Bea Arthur may be best known for her starring roles in the TV sitcom Maude (in the '70s) and The Golden Girls (in the '80s and '90s) — but did you know she also played Yente the Matchmaker in the 1964 Broadway premiere of Fiddler on the Roof? The first season of Maude is now out on DVD.

Carlo Bonini, investigative reporter for the Rome newspaper La Repubblica, broke the story about an Italian intelligence agency's involvement in forging documents saying that Iraq secured uranium from Niger. Those documents helped the White House make the case for invading Iraq. Bonini's new book is Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror.

Presidential historian Robert Dallek has written about LBJ, JFK, FDR and Ronald Reagan. Now, in his book Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, he tackles two political titans he describes as "self-serving characters with grandiose dreams of recasting world affairs."

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died yesterday from injuries sustained in a car crash. He was 73. We revisit his Fresh Air interviews from 1985, from 1993, and from 1999.

Novelist Joshua Ferris makes his debut with Then We Came to the End, a satire about life in a Chicago advertising agency just as the dot-com boom went bust.

Journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS April 25 with Bill Moyers Journal; the first episode "Buying the War," a 90-minute examination of the role of the press in the run-up to the Iraq War.

The critically acclaimed FX drama The Shield, now in its sixth season, was a recent recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award. Terry talks to creator and writer Shawn Ryan. Rebroadcast from March 14, 2006.

Best known for her portrayal of Detective Claudette Wyms on The Shield, actress CCH Pounder also boasts film credits ranging from Bagdad Cafe to Benny & Joon; her Shield character's recent promotion to the rank of captain promises new story lines. This interview was first broadcast on June 5, 2006.