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Pianist and composer Jon Batiste was nominated in 11 categories, including Album of the Year. Read the full list of 2022 nominees.

Every nominee and winner from all 86 categories presented at the 2022 Grammy Awards, presented on Sunday, April 3 in Las Vegas.

Bob Mondello interviews a performance artist who has written an article in the latest issue of the academic quarterly "Theater Magazine." It recounts the months he insinuated himself into various right-wing militia organizations for the purpose of creating performance art. He used disguises and subtrefuges, costumes, voices, false names. He then made films to document his encounters. He is continuing this pursuit, and so elected not to use his real name for NPR's interview, and uses the pseudonym he used for the article -- Blanche Davidian. He talks to Bob about his dual role as activist and artist, about the links between art and social change, politics, and grassroots discussion, and about his technique and performances. (12:30) (S

The new film Walk the Line is based on the life of legendary musician Johnny Cash. We begin a two-day look at the life of the much-celebrated "Man in Black" with an interview with Cash himself. This interview originally aired on Nov. 4, 1997.

After soaring to fame with Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd built a solid film career. But he's still capitalizing on his early hit, The Blues Brothers (now available in a 25th-anniversary DVD). He serves on the board of the "House of Blues" restaurant and concert-venue franchise, and last year he published a book as his Blues Brothers alter-ego, Elwood, interviewing blues greats. (This interview was first broadcast on Nov. 22, 2004.)

This is a repeat of Terry Gross' now-infamous interview with the Kiss band member. The band rose to prominence and popularity in the mid 1970s. They were known for their Halloweenish face paint, black-leather outfits, platform heels and grandiose stage shows where Simmons spit blood, belched fire and stuck out his seven-inch tongue. Simmons' autobiography is Kiss and Make-Up which details his early years growing up in Israel and later Brooklyn. This interview first aired February 4, 2002.

Last October (Weekend All Things Considered, 10/3/96), Daniel interviewed Sang Ek, the head chef at The Palm Restaurant here in Washington, DC. Sang told us how to make his light and crispy French-Fried Onion Rings. During the interview Sang told us that he intended to return to his native Cambodia to find his family - he has been out of touch with them since he left Cambodia more than 25 years ago. This past January, Sang made that journey back to Cambodia - and he talks with Daniel about his family's reunion.

Film director MARTIN SCORSESE. Shortly before her death, his mother, Catherine Scorsese, published a cookbook of recipes: "Italianamerican: The Scorsese Family Cookbook" (Random House). She acted in, and cooked in (on and off-screen) for several of her son's movies. MARTIN SCORSESE will talk about casting his mother in his films and about the new book. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00 Interview with MARTIN SCORSESE continued.

She's best known for her one-woman plays based on hundreds of interviews she did with diverse people who experienced a crisis in their community. They include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 about the Rodney King verdict, and Fires in the Mirror about the Crown Heights disturbances. Her most recent show House Arrest took her to Washington D.C.to interview politicians and pundits, and it involves a community not in crisis. Deavere Smith has also written a new memoir, Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines (Random House).

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep has interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad explains his comments that he would like to see Israel wiped off the map. The full interview will run on Morning Edition Tuesday.