Terry Gross

Journalist Patrick Cockburn (CO-BURN). He's been a senior Middle East Correspondent for the Financial Times and the London Independent. He's the co-author of the new book, "Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein" (HarperCollins). He'll discuss the bombing campaign against Iraq, Saddam's hold on power, the royal family and more.

We remember film critic Gene Siskel who was half of the Siskel and Ebert movie-review team. Two weeks ago he left their TV show to recuperate from brain tumor surgery he received last year. He died on Saturday. The duo began their TV collaboration in 1975 on Chicago Public Television .The program later became a national PBS show and then moved on to a successful commercial television run. Gene Siskel was film columnist for the Chicago Tribune. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST 3/21/96)

Neil Gershenfeld is author of "When Things Start to Think." (Henry Holt) He talks about his research into the future technology. This includes shoes with computers in them, Refrigerators that tell you when the milk is expired, and coffee cups that know how you like your coffee. He co-directs the Things That Think research consortium at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Ma.

Tom Standage is author of "The Victorian Internet."(Walker) He explores the development of the telegraph and the parallels it has with today's internet. Standage is a science writer for The Economist in London. He lives in Greenwich, England.

Head of Solid Tumor Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Dr. Larry Norton. He'll discuss the newest treatments for cancer.

Authority on complementary cancer treatments Michael Lerner. and founder of The Commonweal Cancer Help Program. He's also the author of the book "Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer" (The MIT Press). Lerner won a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for his work in public health in 1983. His research institute was featured on Bill Moyers' PBS series "Healing and the Mind."

Marisa Weiss is co-author of the new book "Living Beyond Breast Cancer: A Survivor's Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins." (Times Books) WEISS is a radiation oncologist at Paoli Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania. In 1992, she formed the support network "Living Beyond Breast Cancer" to help survivors and their families.

Laura Landro has written the new book "Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight Against Cancer." (Simon & Schuster) In 1991, Landro, then a Wall Street Journal reporter, was diagnosed with leukemia. She used her journalist training to seek out the best form of treatment. She is now senior editor of entertainment, media, and marketing coverage at the Wall Street Journal.

Robert Weinberg is the author of the new book "One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins." (Basic Books) Weinberg talks about how cancer develops and what can be done to stop it. He is Director of the Oncology Research Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute in Massachusetts. He is also a professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is also author of "Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer."

Singer-songwriter Randy Newman. Last week he was nominated for three Academy Awards - for his "Pleasantville" and "A Bug's Life" scores, and for a song from "Babe: A Pig in the City." We will broadcast an extended version of the interview we aired late in December with Newman. At that time Rhino Records released "Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman," a four CD box set that included an entire disc of previously unreleased tracks.