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Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) MICHAEL GORDON is Chief Military Correspondent for The New York Times. He was recently in Iraq. We'll talk with him about efforts to stem the violence in Baghdad, and the prospects for change in American policy. His recent book is "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.' (2.) Author Richard Sloan, Ph.D. His new book is called Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine (St. Martin's Press). In it, he examines the claim that prayer and religion can heal the sick. Using the scientific method, he shows that there is no compelling evidence that religion can actually cure medical ailments. He finds this reliance on religion and the rejection of well-established medical treatments to be a disturbing trend. Sloan is professor of behavioral Medicine at Columbia University. (3.) TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI. He will review 3 new shows premiering this week on the 3 major networks. We are currently in the middle of November sweeps month.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) MICHAEL GORDON is Chief Military Correspondent for The New York Times. He was recently in Iraq. He'll discuss the efforts to recruit Iraqis for the Iraqi army, and look back at the invasion of Iraq. It's the subject of his recent book "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq" (Pantheon). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Another Fine Day" by the band Golden Smog, a band made of veteran rockers from such bands as Wilco, the Jayhawks, and Soul Asylum.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., INT. 1: Moscow Bureau chief for the New York Times, MICHAEL GORDON. He's been covering the war in Chechnya. The New York Times is one of only two western news organizations allowed in Chechnya by the Russian military. GORDON also covered the Gulf war and the war in Kosovo, and is co-author of the book "The Generals' War" about the Gulf War. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). INT. 2: Correspondent from the New York Times Moscow bureau, CELESTINE BOHLEN (CELL-es-teen BO-lin). She'll discuss the role of the new acting Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in the conflict. Bohlen will also talk about the reaction of Russian citizens to the war.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., INT. 1: "New York Times" defense correspondent MICHAEL GORDON and retired Marine Corps General BERNARD TRAINOR. They have collaborated on a book about the Persian Gulf war, "The General's War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf." ( Little, Brown) The book examines why the war was "an incomplete success." INT. 2 : Drummer ARTHUR (ART) TAYLOR. He died Monday at age 65. TAYLOR played with Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. His recent book "Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews" (Da Capo Press) was a new expanded collection of interviews he's done with fellow musicians: . It was one of the few books about black jazz musicians by a black man, and because of that TAYLOR's subjects were able to talk freely about the role of black artists in white society. It includes interviews with Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Thelonious Monk and others. (REBROADCAST FROM 2/21/94) INT. 3: Poet JAMES MERRILL. He died Monday at age 68. The son of the founder of the Merrill Lynch brokerage house, Merrill took to Europe at age 24, a newly published poet "meaning to stay as long as possible". That was in 1950. His memoir "A Different Person" (Knopf) detailed his two and a half years there, and featured encounters with psychoanalysts, new and old lovers, and Alice Toklas. MERRILL wrote eleven books of poems, and was the winner of two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize. (REBROADCAST FROM 10/18/93) REV. : Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews five CDs featuring reissued recordings by conductor Sir Thomas Beecham.