Oct 7th, 2008 · David Cornwell, who goes by the pen name John Le Carré, is back with his latest spy novel A Most Wanted Man. In the thriller, Le Carré uses his experience as a British intelligence officer to write about his view on the war on terror.
Aug 11th, 2008 · Hostile womanizer, crack addict, New York Times journalist — David Carr has been all of those, sometimes simultaneously. For his memoir The Night of the Gun, Carr put on his investigative-reporter hat — to reconstruct his various sordid lives.
Feb 25th, 2008 · Tell Me More remembers longtime civil rights activist Johnnie Rebecca Carr is dead at the age of 97. Carr was a childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and led the Montgomery Improvement Association for decades. The organization was formed after Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Feb 23rd, 2008 · Johnnie Rebecca Carr, one of the lesser-known leaders of the civil rights movement, died Friday in Montgomery, Ala., after suffering a stroke earlier this month. She was 97.
Jun 23rd, 2006 · Chuck Carr, vice President of member services of the Institute for Scrap Metal Recycling Industries, talks with Linda Wertheimer about increasing thefts of scrap metal in the U.S. Metal prices are at record highs and thieves are hauling away everything they can get their hands on.
Aug 26th, 2005 · The film version of author John Le Carre's thriller The Constant Gardener will be hitting theaters soon. Le Carre is the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, the author of such cold war spy classics as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. (This interview originally aired May 30, 1989.)
Jul 27th, 2005 · Fernando Meirelles, director of the Brazilian film City of God, joins us to talk about his latest movie The Constant Gardener. Based on the John Le Carre novel, the movie tells a story of love, betrayal and big pharmaceutical companies set in East Africa.
Sep 15th, 2004 · Writer Jeff Obafemi Carr sat in a church pew last Sunday singing the secular song, "Where is the love?" He explains why in his commentary.