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  • JOHNNY CASH CONTINUED.Earlier this week, HAROLD NICOLAS, the younger member of the famous tap-dancing duo, The Nicholas Brothers, died in Manhattan. The Nicholas Brothers danced in vaudeville, on Broadway, in night clubs and on TV, but may be best known for their appearances in movie musicals of the 1930s and 40s. We'll listen back to a 1985 interview with NICOLAS. The next installment of the Harry Potter series comes out tomorrow. Book Critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the Harry Potter books and the hype around them.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air - we'll listen back to our 1997 interview with JOHNNY CASH. His 1969 concert recording, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, has been remastered, and was released this week. That and more coming up on the next Fresh Air.
  • Former head of the FBI's Serial Crime Unit, JOHN DOUGLAS. For 20 years he investigated serial murders for the FBI, and developed techniques to get criminals to talk, and to lure them into capture. He also pioneered criminal profiling. Many of his techniques have been adopted by police departments and prosecutors nationwide. DOUGLAS interviewed such notorious killers as Charles Manson and Richard Speck. He has a new memoir, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Lisa Drew book, written with Mark Olshaker). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW
  • Actor and director KENNETH BRANAGH (rhymes with "Savannah"). He stars as Lago in the new film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. We feature excerpts from two interviews with BRANAGH from our archives. Branagh's films include a film adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth, with himself in the title role, "Dead Again," a psychological thriller starring Branagh and Emma Thompson, and Much Ado About Nothing," also starring himself. Branagh was born in Northern Ireland, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as acting, managing, and directing other groups and working on several BBC productions. (Rebroadcast from interviews recorded in 1989, and 1991.
  • Ava Gilberg-Stroud picked up the drums at a young age to feel closer to her dad. She interviewed him to learn about how he first got into music for the PBS News Student Reporting Labs.
  • The 1975 film was based on a real-life Brooklyn bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation and a media circus. Lumet's interview originally aired in 1998; Pacino's was broadcast in 2024.
  • Ali Sajad Faqirzada was detained by ICE in New Jersey when he appeared on Oct. 14 for a credible fear interview as part of his asylum application process.
  • On this week's show, we replay some of the segments we're most thankful for, including interviews with Paul Giamatti, Laufey, Ibtihaj Muhammad, and James Gunn!
  • Last night, Stephen Colbert said goodbye to The Late Show after 11 years. We listen back to his '16 interview, in which he talked about embracing his "sharp and satirical and highly opinionated" side.
  • The Notre Dame linebacker admitted that in early interviews he was not "forthcoming," but said he did not lie. He insisted he was the victim of a hoax.
  • "I said something I should not have said," Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg.
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