This collection, which includes interviews with Ray Charles, Meryl Streep, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others, features a selection of memorable interviews handpicked by Terry Gross (pictured in 1991) and the Fresh Air staff.

Ray Charles: The Complete Country and Western Recordings 1959-1986.

Rhino) Charles may be best known for his blues, RB and soul music.

She talks about preparing for that role, her other films and how her perceptions of herself have changed over the years.

In conversation with Fresh Airs Terry Gross from 2002, Bowie was in the midst of making the following years Reality, and here talks about leaving characters in his songs, his love of Tibetan horns, and his childhood desire to write musicals and play saxophone in Little Richards band.

Clooney sings some of her best known songs, accompanied by a quintet directed by John Oddo.

Her 1996 album Dedicated to Nelson has been nominated for a Grammy.

Here, Baldwin delivers a lecture and has a rap session with students at an event at Lehigh University.

Cash has been recording albums and performing since the 1950s.

Representing Cashs varied musical styles, he has been inducted into the Songwriters, Country Music, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.

Hes just released an autobiography called Cash (Harper) The book tour for the memoir has been cancelled due to complications with Cashs Parkinsons disease.

I was young and had no power, he says, so the studio figured they could just boss me around.

His books are classics: Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and others.

In all, Sendak has illustrated 80 childrens books (19 of which he wrote).

Sendak, who is 83, wrote and illustrated the book while caring for his longtime partner, who died of cancer in 2007.

DelGaudios one-man show In Of Itself is now available on Hulu.

They follow the adventures of a group of maladroit MI5 agents whove somehow blown it you know, left a disk marked Top Secret on the Underground, or slept with an ambassadors spouse.

We listen back to interviews with biographers Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Eig and Alex Haley.

Terry Gross Fresh Air Interviews