WBUR Newsroom Election 2008 CommonHealth Blog Radio Boston Blog Boston Weather Climate Connections BBC World News NPR Top Stories NPR's Morning Edition NPR Topics: Books NPR Topics: Movies Fresh Air All Things Considered Marketplace Submit a News Tip RSS Feeds Podcasts Fresh Air with Terri Gross Frank Sinatra's Life and Legacy Fri, 09 May 2008 11:01:00 -0400 Record producer and Sinatra historian Charles Granada discusses his book Sessions With Sinatra: Frank Sinatra And The Art of Recording and the box set — Frank Sinatra: The Best of the Columbia Years 1943-1952 — he helped to create. Real | Windows Fighting to Pay the Bills in 'Redbelt' Fri, 09 May 2008 10:36:00 -0400 Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews Redbelt, the new martial-arts film written and directed by David Mamet. The film tells the story of a principled martial-arts master who steps into the professional fighting ring to save his business. Real | Windows Emmanuel Jal: From Child Soldier to Rising Star Thu, 08 May 2008 14:10:00 -0400 At 8 years old, Emmanuel Jal was carrying an AK-47 rifle as a child soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Taken from battle and adopted by a British aid worker, he is now a rising international music star. He discusses his experiences and music. Jal's new album is titled Warchild. Real | Windows Growing Up In a Surfer Family, Wipeouts and All Thu, 08 May 2008 10:20:00 -0400 The family of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz — all 11 of them — lived on a 24-foot camper, traveling the continent in search of good surfing. Their story is the subject of Surfwise, a documentary directed by Doug Pray and produced by Jonathan Paskowitz. Real | Windows Reporter Explores America's Unique Take on Justice Wed, 07 May 2008 14:42:00 -0400 The United States is home to less than five percent of the world's population — and almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Adam Liptak, national legal correspondent for The New York Times , says that's one of the ways America's legal system differs from those of other countries. Real | Windows Ricardo Sanchez: 'Wiser' in Hindsight on Iraq, Politics Wed, 07 May 2008 15:09:00 -0400 Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez commanded ground troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004; it was on his watch that the Abu Ghraib prison scandal took place. Subsequently, Sanchez has vocally criticized the conduct of the Iraq war — especially the Bush administration's "catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan." His new book is Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story. Real | Windows Exhuming a Real-Life British Murder Mystery Wed, 07 May 2008 10:52:00 -0400 In her new book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale revisits the gruesome 150-year-old murder that helped catapult British mystery fiction into being. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan offers a review. Real | Windows Hayes Carll, Finding 'Trouble' Where He Can Tue, 06 May 2008 10:57:00 -0400 Fresh Air music critic Ken Tucker reviews Trouble in Mind, the new album from country singer Hayes Carll. The 32-year-old Texan says his music is inspired by Beat poetry, Bob Dylan and singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Real | Windows