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What do you do when you’re an African-American filmmaker living in a country full of people who dress up in blackface at Christmastime?  You pick up a camera. Roger Ross Williams  talks about his new documentary,  "Blackface." It's about the traditional Dutch celebration of "Black Pete" -- a Santa's helper who dresses in blackface, an Afro wig, red lipstick and big hoop earrings.

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Ross Terrill talks with Steve Paulson about the internal politics of China and says the Communist Party is becoming irrelevant to Chinese life.

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Sherman Alexie is a one-man culture industry.  He's also pretty much a rock star guest.  Steve Paulson and Veronica Rueckert look back on his first interview with TTBOOK.

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Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at University College, London, and editor of Carl Jung's "Red Book."

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The three members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company visit with Jim Fleming and perform excerpts from their hilarious versions of the Bard’s plays.  

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Steve Earle has been Nashville’s bad boy for years. He talks about his controversial new album, “Jerusalem,”  and his opposition to war in Iraq.

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John Cleese gave us Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, the Ministry of Silly Walks, and the neurotic hotel manager in Fawlty Towers.  He looks back over it all in his new memoir, "So, Anyway."

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Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai massacre story during the Vietnam War and he was among the first to document the extent of the abuses and the cover-up at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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