Terry Gross

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.

Comedienne Julia Sweeney. The former Saturday Night Live performer, was best known for, Pat, the gender-ambiguous character. Her one woman performance piece, "God Said, Ha!" has been made into a new film. Sweeney began working on the piece when she learned that her brother had cancer. She took him into her home to care for him while he was receiving treatment. Her parents moved in too for the time being. Sweeney's brother eventually died, and she was diagnosed with cancer shortly before that. (REBROADCAST FROM 11/20/96)

A Fresh Air favorite, opera soprano Dawn Upshaw. She has a new CD, "Dawn Upshaw sings Vernon Duke" (Nonesuch). It features Fred Hersch on piano and John Pizzarelli on guitar. We'll also hear from the producer of her new CD, Tommy Krasker. Upshaw has more than two dozen albums to her credit and has become widely known for her ability to perform both in the opera as well as sing Broadway tunes. Upshaw joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1984 and has performed at the Met.

John Pizzarelli segment about songwriter Bobby Troup who died this week at the age of 80. (Interview segment from 1997)