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The TV network says Ramos has been released. Earlier it said Ramos and his crew were detained while interviewing President Nicolás Maduro. The State Department called for them to be let go.

The NPR Morning Edition host is recently back from Iran, where he visited three different cities and interviewed dozens of people.

Hear the master chef and truth-telling enthusiast talk about the music he holds close during this 2007 interview.

Filmmaker JOHN WATERS. We replay one of his earlier conversations with Terry, shortly after he made the cult film "Polyester," starring Divine and Edith Massey. "Polyester" was Waters' first studio film, and the first of his movies that didn't carry a self imposed X-rating. Prior to this July 1985 Fresh Air interview, Waters also wrote, produced and directed other sleaze classics such as "Multiple Maniacs," "Pink Flamingoes," "Mondo Trasho," "Female Trouble" and "Desperate Living." Waters made all his trashy films on location in his hometown of Baltimore

collePoet MARK DOTY. He won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle award for his poetry ction, My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press). He is currently a Fannie Hearst Visiting Professor at Brandeis University. INTERVIEW TWOESSEX HEMPHILL is the author of two books of poetry, "Earth Life" and "Conditions," and a collection of prose and poetry called "Ceremonies." He's also the editor of "Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men." He's reading from his work "Vital Signs," published in the collection "Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS," edited by Thomas Avena (Mercury House).

TERRY ANDERSON and his wife MADELEINE BASSIL. ANDERSON was held hostage for seven years in Lebanon. Madeleine was pregnant when he was abducted and gave birth to their daughter, Sulome Theresa, while her husband was in captivity. In ANDERSON's new book, "Den of Lions: Memiors of Seven Years" (Crown Publishers), Terry and Madeleine describe the challenges they were forced to face until his release in December of 1991. (This interview continues into the second half of the show.

JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS and RUTHIE BOLTON. HUMPHREYS is a fiction writer, who won the Pen/Hemingway award in 1985 for "Dreams of Sleep." She recently transcribed and edited the life story of RUTHIE BOLTON, who grew up in the same area of Charleston, South Carolina, as HUMPHREYS did. The novel is called "Gal" (Harcourt, Brace amd Co.) and details the the stories of BOLTON's life growing up with an abusive grandfather in 1960's South Carolina. The interview will include both BOLTON and HUMPHREYS.

2: Actress and dramatist ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. She performs excerpts from her one-woman show, "Fires in the Mirror," which is currently played to sold out audiences at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York. It's about racial and ethnic tensions between African Americans and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The show will air over PBS's "American Playhouse," this Wednesday (April 28). The interview is a rebroadcast from 7/28/92.

Correspondent for The New York Times ROGER COHEN who is covering the war in Bosnia. He'll discuss the recent offensive by Bosnian Muslims and Croats around Banja Luka in northwestern Bosnia, and he'll talk about the history of Serbs, and the betrayal many Serbs feel by Serbian nationals. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

2: Psychologist DONALD DUTTON is a pioneer in the study and treatment of abusive men. He is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, and the director of the Assaultive Husbands Program in Vancouver, Canada. Recently DUTTON was an expert witness for the prosecution in the pretrial of O.J. Simpson. His new book (co-authored with Susan Golant) is The Batterer: A Psychological Profile (Basic Books). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES through THE HALF HOUR).