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Marie Rhines is a fiddler of Scottish, Irish, and American music. In this interview with Edward Haber, she talks about her music and plays examples of her fiddling style from records. Rhines talks about her interest in American Appalachian fiddle music, her particular interpretations of different styles of folk music, and the difficulties of notation and improvisation.

On U.S. press coverage of events in Iran.

Paula DiPerna talks with Bob Rosengard about writing her book The Complete Travel Guide to Cuba (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979), the first travel guide to Cuba to have been published in over twenty years.

Interviews with Victor Navasky and Hamilton Fish of The Nation, Jon Steinberg of Seven Days, James Weinstein of In These Times, Jack Smith of The Guardian.

Poetry reading and traditional Irish music.