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Ben Karlin, former executive producer of both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is also an alumnus of the satirical newsweekly The Onion. He left the Comedy Central shows in December 2006 to focus on his family. This interview originally aired on April 4, 2006.

Actor John C. Reilly and director Jake Kasdan talk about their new film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Kasdan woke up in the middle of the night with the concept and even the title for the spoof of music biopics. This interview was initially broadcast on Dec. 3, 2007.

Guitarist, songwriter and vocalist James Hetfield was a founding member of the metal band Metallica. His time in rehab is chronicled in the documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which tracks the band at a time of crisis and is now on DVD. We rebroadcast an interview with Hetfield from Nov. 9, 2004.

At age 70, the late writer and former boxing "cut man" F.X. Toole published his first book, a collection of short stories about boxing called Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, to critical praise. We rebroadcast a Sept. 26, 2000, interview with Toole.

As part of the first cast of Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd helped bring the Coneheads and the Blues Brothers to life. We talk with Aykroyd about two new projects: the book Elwood's Blues: interviews with the Blues Legends and Stars, and the upcoming movie Christmas with the Kranks.

Cheadle stars in the new film Hotel Rwanda playing a hotel manager who shelters over a 1,000 refugees from genocide. It's based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina. Cheadle's other films include Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Ocean's Eleven, and Traffic. This interview was originally broadcast on April 6, 2004.

The first of a 25-volume series reprinting the entire Peanuts comic strip has just been published. We feature an interview with the creator Charles Schulz (who died in 2000) just before his final strip ran in the Sunday papers. The first of the books is The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 (Fantagraphics Books). (Originally broadcast on Dec. 18, 1990.)

Regular featured guest Loriene Roy has completed her term as president of the American Library Association. In an exit interview, Roy shares highlights from her time leading the group, what the future holds for her and one final list of suggested literary "musts" for the inquiring mind.

Liane Hansen speaks with Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on he moon and co-author of a new science fiction novel, "Encounter with Tiber" Warner Books). Large parts of the book deal with Aldrin's speculations about ow humans might return to space exploration. In the interview, Aldrin talks bout his test pilot days and his early fascination with lunar rendezvous, the ifficulties with space shuttle technology and the importance of exploration eyond earth's orbit.

Linda talks with author James Stewart about an article he wrote for The New Yorker magazine in which he interviewed both James and Susan McDougal, figures in the Whitewater scandal. He learned that James McDougal has told prosecutors that Bill Clinton knew about an illegal loan to McDougal's former wife, Susan. They discuss what this means for the ongoing Whitewater investigation, and McDougal's credibility on this issue.