Terry Gross

He was the co-leader of the team that discovered three very important skulls in Ethiopia. The human remains are about 160,000 years old and offer evidence of the earliest ancestors of modern humans. They bolster the theory that modern humans emerged in Africa and are not related to Neanderthals, who lived in Europe. White is a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.

He responds to concerns about conflict of interest in awarding military contracts to private companies. Pawlik explains how the Army Corps of Engineers gave contracts to put out oil fires in Iraq to Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former Secretary of Defense, was the CEO of Halliburton before he became vice president.

He's the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C., similar to an investigative journalism outfit but without time and space constraints. Its mission is to expose corruption and power abuse by governments, corporations and individuals. For 11 years, Lewis was an investigative reporter at ABC News, and also worked at CBS on 60 Minutes. His work at the Center for Public Integrity has been widely praised.

He was the Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2000, and was known for his satirical coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. He's now starring in Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

A Father's Day show featuring dads and sons talking about their relationships. First, saxophonist Branford Marsalis on his father, jazz great Ellis Marsalis. This interview first aired October 21, 2002.

He is the son of the celebrated writer Andre Dubus, who died in 1999. He's the author of the books, House of Sand And Fog, Bluesman and The Cage Keeper. Dubus teaches writing at Tufts University and Emerson College. This interview first aired May 4, 1999.

He's the son of the late novelist and short story master John Cheever, and he edited a collection of his father's letters. The letters tracked the elder Cheever's secret bisexuality. Ben Cheever's most recent books include Old Dogs Remembered, Selling Ben Cheever and Famous After Death. This interview first aired November 11, 1988.

Bob entertained generations as half of the legendary comedy team of Bob and Ray. Many of today's comics and television comedy programs find their roots of influence in the innovative works of Bob and Ray. His son Chris is an actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared in such films as There's Something About Mary, Cabin Boy, Kingpin. Together, Bob and Chris Elliott wrote a memoir, Daddy's Boy: A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father. This interview first aired June 7, 1989.

John is the son of jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. John's albums include Live At Birdland, The Rare Delights of You and Kisses in the Rain. This interview first aired October 23, 1997.

He's been called the most inventive American tenor player in creative music. His father, Rodd Keith (also known as Rod Rodgers) was killed when he was struck by cars on the Hollywood Freeway after leaping or falling from the Santa Monica Boulevard overpass. Eskelin only knew his father for the first eighteen months of his life. As he grew up he was inspired and intrigued by the continuous stories he heard about him and his musical talent. He has produced a collection of his father's recordings titled I died Today - Music of Rodd Keith.