Terry Gross

Scott Dikkers is editor-in-chief of The Onion, an alternative weekly based in Madison, Wisconsin. He along with the editors of The Onion, have published the new book "Our Dumb Century" (Three Rivers Press) It's a parody of newspaper headlines spanning this century.

Former media critic Tom Rosenstiel, now the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, created to address the media's role in society and how journalists could do their jobs better. He'll discuss the coverage of the disappearance of John F. Kennedy Jr's plane. Rosenstiel is the former media critic for the Los Angeles Times and the chief Congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine. Rosenstiel is also the author of "Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American politics, 1992" (Hyperion Press).

Film producer David Puttnam. His films include "Chariots of Fire," "Local Hero," "The Killing Fields," and "Midnight Express." His latest film -- and probably his last -- is "My Life So Far" a period piece set in the Scottish Highlands in the late 1920s. Puttnam is retiring from film making to tend to his duties as a member of the British House of Lords and Chairman of the National AIDS Trust.

Renowned naturalist and film maker Sir David Attenborough. In January, his book "The Life of Birds" was released. It's a companion to a new 10-part PBS series which begins airing forests to desert, to cities and isolated wildernesses, the flying and the flightless, the seed eaters and the meat-eaters. The series was broadcast on the BBC last fall. Most recently he has just returned from the North Sea of the coast of Scotland doing research for one of his next major projects a comprehensive study of mammals. Originally aired 1/14/99.

French film legend Jeanne Moreau. She's been called the Grande Dame of French cinema. Her breakthrough came in 1958, when Louis Malle, one of the instigators of the "New Wave" of French cinema, gave her an important rôle in his first feature film, Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud. The actress and director fell in love during the making of the film, and Malle wrote his second film, the erotic classic Les Amants especially for her. In the 1960's, she used her star power to work with the European directors she most admired, Brook, Bunel, and Truffaut.

Steve Erlanger is the Central Europe and Balkans Bureau Chief for The New York Times. He reports from Prague, Czech Republic on the aftermath of the NATO bombings in Yugoslavia. During the war, he filed reports from Belgrade.

Jazz guitarists Jim Hall and Pat Metheny talk about their recent collaboration on the album "Jim Hall & Pat Mentheny" (Telarc) Hall emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1950's and went on to performed with such artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Art Farmer and Itzhak Perlman. Metheny's recording career took off in the 1970's and became so successful...that Guitar Player magazine called him the "Jazz Voice of the 80s." This newest recording is being hailed as a cross-generational summit of two exceptional jazz guitarists.

British writer Pat Barker is best known for her "Regeneration" trilogy set in the shadows of WWI. In 1995,
she received the Booker Prize for its concluding novel, The Ghost Road. She has written the new novel "Another World." (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Pat Barker grew up poor in the industrial North, once remarking that her decision to write about war was a deliberate response to patronizing reviews of her working-class settings in her earlier novels.

Leo Marks served as one of Britain's top code makers during WWII. There he revolutionized the military's code making methods. He's written about his experiences in "Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945. (Free Press) Marks is also a screenwriter. His most famous film is the 1960's cult-classic "Peeping Tom."

Fortune magazine Editor-at-Large, Joseph Nocera, talks about the industry and consumer implications from the on-going trial of Microsoft. The U.S. Justice Department alleges the Microsoft engaged in illegal predatory practices against its competitors. Nocera has been covering the trial for Fortune. Nocera is author of "A Piece of the Action; How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class" by Simon and Schuster. (This book is out of print) He also is a regular business commentator for Saturday Weekend Edition on NPR.