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Actor, Director and Puppeteer Frank Oz.
Film director Frank Oz. He directed the comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" that starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine. But Oz is still best known as the creator and voice behind Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster and Fozzie Bear, characters who make up the Muppets. Oz, who joined Muppet Show-creator Jim Henson in 1963, also directed the Muppet films, like "The Muppets Take Manhattan." His other film is the musical comedy "Little Shop of Horrors." (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast on Tuesday, December 20, 1988.)
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DANIEL LIEBERMAN, author of the new book Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health and Eating Well. He’s a professor of biological Sciences at Harvard. And he's the founding chair of Harvard's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. As part of his research, he tried a series of diets to see how his body reacted, including the Atkins diet and lesser known diets like the Blue Zone diet. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).
In 'Etna,' a canine narrator delivers a poignant anti-war message
Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Etna the new novel by Paul Yoon, the narration was inspired by his dog Oscar.
Remembering Irish singer–songwriter Glen Hansard
Best-known for his band The Frames and his part in the 2007 film Once, Hansard got his start as a street busker in Dublin. He died July 29 in a motorcycle crash. Originally broadcast in 2008.