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Comedian and actor Tim Meadows and singer Keely Smith on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Meadows was a regular on TV's Saturday Night Live for some nine years. Leon the Ladies Man, a swingin' politically incorrect radio love doctor that he played on the show, is featured in the film The Ladies Man, now available on video. Keely Smith has been called "The Queen of Swing" and "The First Lady of Las Vegas." Smith is perhaps best known as the duet partner and wife of Louis Prima.

Journalist Jon Cohen and South African journalist Charlene Smith on this edition of Fresh Air. Cohen has just written a book called Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS vaccine. He is a leading AIDS reporter who covers science and medicine for Science Magazine. He'll talk about the work that is being done to develop the AIDS vaccine, trials, funding issues, and the future of AIDS prevention.

Serbian student activist Srdja Popovic and writer and retired New York City firefighter Dennis Smith on this edition of Fresh Air. Srdja Popovic is one of the founders of the student nonviolent group which helped bring down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. The group known as Otpor (the Serbian word for "resistance") had a clenched fist as their symbol, but they used humor and theatre to ridicule Milosevic and other government officials.

Writer Daniel Handler and singer Keely Smith on this edition of Fresh Air. Under the name Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler is the author of the children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events featuring the orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. In each of the nine books so far, the orphans face increasing misfortune, from being pursued by an evil Count out to get their inheritance, to undergoing unnecessary surgery.

Comedian Marc Maron and gossip columnist Liz Smith on this edition of Fresh Air. Maron's hit one-man show in Manhattan, Jerusalem Syndrome, is described as a "poetically paranoid rant on corporate culture and the quest for spiritual fulfillment." Maron has appeared on David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and was the host of Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater.

Frontline correspondent Martin Smith and actress Sarah Polley on this edition of Fresh Air. Smith produced the new documentary Truth, War and Consequences. It's about the infighting between the Pentagon, State Department, and White House before the Iraq war over the intelligence information about weapons of mass destruction.

South African journalist and anti-rape activist Charlene Smith and South African journalist Phillip van Niekerk on this edition of Fresh Air. Statistics say every 26 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa, the country with the fastest growing HIV rate. Last year, Smith was raped, and feared the man who raped her could have given her HIV/AIDS, and she had a hard time obtaining the drugs that could lessen the potential of her getting HIV. Smith then wrote about her experience and helped spread awareness about rape and HIV in South Africa.

Stock market expert B. Mark Smith and British actress Charlotte Rampling on this edition of Fresh Air. Smith's book is called Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market.

Actress and playwright Anna Deveare Smith and writer, director and exotic dancer Julia Query on this edition of Fresh Air. Deveare Smith is best known for her one-woman plays based on hundreds of interviews she did with diverse people who experienced a crisis in their community. They include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 about the Rodney King verdict, and Fires in the Mirror about the Crown Heights disturbances.

Wall Street Journal reporters Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller and comic Bill Maher on this edition of Fresh Air. Rebecca Smith is a national energy reporter and John R. Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent who covers white-collar crime.

Because Audible was not granted rights for today's program, we present this show from our Fresh Air archive, featuring author Zadie Smith, novelist Tom Perrotta, and film critic David Edelstein. Smith's latest novel, On Beauty, is out in paperback. Then, Tom Perrotta, whose book Little Children, a satirical take on parenthood and suburbia, has been adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet. Finally, film critic David Edelstein reviews Stephen Frears' film The Queen.

Hear attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Captain Pat McCarthy on this edition of Fresh Air. Clive Stafford Smith represents dozens of prisoners held in the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. His new book is Eight O' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay.

Hear novelist Philip Roth, writer/director Kevin Smith, actor Ray Wise, and rock critic Ken Tucker, on this edition of Fresh Air. Philip Roth's new novel Exit Ghost is his ninth and final Nathan Zuckerman book. He began the series in 1979 with The Ghost Writer. In all, Roth has written 28 novels. There's also a new Library of Congress compendium of the series: Zuckerman Bound.

Without a claim to fame, the internet deems you a “Person of no consequence”. Well, we think everyone has a story to tell and we want to hear yours. Each week host Terry Smith interviews people like you. From heartwarming to hilarious even “normal” people have something to say.

Personal, embarrassing, downright weird—the Can’t Be Killed podcast crew tell their bite-sized stories for your entertainment. From pooping in public to being arrested for ghost hunting. Things get real.