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BBC radio host and DJ Gilles Peterson is famous in Britain for his compilation CDs of rare funk/soul/jazz tunes. Now Peterson is taking his act across the Atlantic with a new compilation CD of tunes by little-known American artists salvaged from the bins of used record shops.

How does a film aficionado convince people to go to a movie that doesn't offer the easy escape of a blockbuster? NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Los Angeles Times and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, Never Coming to a Theater Near You.

More than 13 million families in 2004 were unable at times to buy the food they needed. Finances are so strained with 5 million families that one or more members goes hungry as a result. Economic geographer Amy Glasmeier talks about the phenomenon of hunger in America.

Bob Mondello looks at a new phenomenon that's been popping up on the web: people recutting footage from old movies and adding familiar music to suggest radically different films from the ones we know.

Ever since he took second place in a junior-division Pillsbury Bake-Off, Greg Patent has loved baking. Now he's collected recipes and lore from two centuries of American bakers in a new cookbook, Baking in America.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Jeopardy! with host Alex Trebek, the answer-and-question show of arcane trivia. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports on a recent contestant's winning streak and the enduring appeal of America's favorite quiz show.

A Congolese woman was admitted to a Canadian hospital this week, after coming down with symptoms like those associated with the Ebola virus. But the preliminary tests indicate the illness is not Ebola. Noah talks with NPR's Jon Hamilton, who is covering the story in Hamilton, Ontario.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on a gathering this weekend of some of the nation's most influential black thinkers, political, religious and business leaders. Only one in nine African-Americans cast their ballot for President Bush, and this day-long symposium was convened as a "State of the Black Union" meeting to address concerns important to African-Americans.

Latin America is seeing a resurgence of t-shirts and other memorabilia celebrating the legend of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara. The return of Guevara appears to reflect both grassroots anger over U.S. foreign policy and publicity for The Motorcycle Diaries, a new Hollywood movie based on Guevara's writings that portrays the guerrilla as a romantic idealist. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.

Historian John Hope Franklin has spent much of his life — 90 years, so far — investigating the legacy of slavery in America. Now he has investigated his own life through the biography Mirror to America.

Electric vehicles lose some range in the winter — and, to a lesser degree, in the summer. But exactly how much? AAA has brand-new data.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Shannon Felton Spence, a former manager of high-profile diplomatic and political engagements for the British government, about King Charles' visit to Washington.