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  • Fresh Air's TV critic speaks with Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me) and Barry Sonnenfeld (The Tick) about their new comedy-drama Pushing Daisies. The show combines romance, fantasy and mystery — and features a man who can bring the dead back to life with a mere touch. Pushing Daisies premieres Wednesday, Oct. 3, on ABC.
  • Actor/director Peter Berg's most recent project is The Kingdom, a police procedural set in Saudi Arabia. Berg talks about the film, which stars Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper.
  • Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen makes marvelous wind-powered art — dinosaur-like Strandbeests that wander the beaches of his native Netherlands.
  • The Air Force failed to put the shooter's name on a database that could have prevented him from legally buying guns. He killed 26 people and injured 22 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017.
  • Urban artwork that you can hear. New York City artist Michael Dory hides small sound devices that make cricket-like sounds in containers around the city.
  • Look for more delicious slices of the BPP on our blog.
  • With a special birthday hello for Charlton Heston, Luke Burbank's Hollywood hero.
  • The launch of Sputnik, the premieres of Leave It to Beaver and West Side Story, the integration of Little Rock Central High School, and the birth of On The Road — journalist Ken Walsh talks about an amazing year.
  • Just how much power do TV blogs wield over network execs and show producers? Rolling Stone's David Kushner cites examples.
  • Margaret Cho is wll-known for her bawdy stand-up comedy that takes no prisoners on the topics of sexuality and race. But with her new burlesque show, The Sensuous Woman, Cho takes on body image as well. Cho talks with Andrea Seabrook about baring it all onstage.
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