U.S.SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN OF DELAWARE. Listen to my exclusive interview with Senator Biden who Senator Barack Obama has just chosen as his Vice Presidential running mate in the 2008 Election. I sit down with him for a full half hour and discuss his stance on all major issues. The interview was done a few months ago during the Democratic primary.

ANDREW EDLIN. Andrew is the author and star of 'Churchill' a one-man play about Sir Winston Churchill.The play is in two acts; the first an hour, the second half-an-hour. Churchill agonizes in his wartime bunker below London whether to resign as Prime Minister. As he tries to decide he reviews his uniquely eventful career, filled with history-changing events and people, glorious speeches, pithy comments,funny stories, and all the wit and wisdom that has made Churchill beyond greatness into an imperishable legend.www.churchillplay.com

Mr. Ed Malloy is the mayor of Fairfield, Iowa, the home of KRUU 100.1 FM. Fairfield has been designated, as one of Iowa’s great places. Mr. Malloy is also the President of Danaher Oil.

G. Joseph Kopser, Jr., Major, U.S. Army Operational Planner inside the Future Force Integration Directorate, U.S. Army. Major Kopser discusses his experience as both a cadet and teacher at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The Major holds a Masters degree from Harvard University.

Mr. Ed Petersen Jr. has been working in the Redemptory Clonard Monastery, in Belfast, Ireland in the Ecumenical and Peace Ministry. He recently completed a three-year program funded by the International Fund for Ireland entitled the Clonard Reconciliation Project. This project aimed at building friendships between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.Mr. Petersen is a graduate of Yale University where he was captain of the varsity basketball team.

Michelle Obama is the wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms Obama has her BA from Princeton University and her law degree from Harvard University. (Originally broadcast in January 2008).

Singer/songwriter Paul Fauerso. Paul founded the Loading Zone in 1966. They were the opening act for such legendary groups as The Who, Rod Stewart, the Grateful Dead, Sam and Dave, Big Brother and the Holding Company with lead singer Janice Joplin, and dozens more. Paul went on to write and record music inspired by the teachings of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (Originally scheduled for last week's show.)

Jim Leach, former United States Congressman from Iowa, has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. Congressman Leach served 15 terms in Congress as a Republican representative from eastern Iowa. During his congressional career he served as chairman of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and was author or co-author of several significant pieces of legislation, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, reforming the financial services industry.

Austan Dean Goolsbee is a senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign. He is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois.

Seventeen year old jazz sensation Keelan Dimick. Keelan was born and raised in Fairfield, Ia until the age of thirteen. He then moved to Boise, ID where he met and studied jazz piano with Justen Nielsen. Keelan has gone on to take first place in piano competitions at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, the Gene Harris Jazz Festival, and the Mount Hood Jazz Festival. He will be giving a benefit concert for our own KRUU LP 100.1 FM this Saturday August 2, 2008 at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts here in Fairfield, IA.

Matt Dalio is the Founder of China Care Foundation, Inc and President of its Board of Directors. His passion for China started when he lived for a year in Beijing, China at the age of eleven. Even at a young age, Matt Dalio was able to see the difficulties suffered by many special-needs Chinese orphans, and in 2000 at the age of 16, he founded an organization that would aid in giving these children a better future. Mr. Dalio is a graduate of Harvard University.

Constance Brenneman is currently an On-Air television host for My 64 Cincinnati, cable channel 11, and an intervention counselor working within an alternative school in the Ohio Public School System. She is completing a documentary on the Maharishi Effect, or Superradiance Effect called Waves of Peace. Constance has guest starred on the ABC TV shows "The Practice" (1997) and "Alias" (2001) and co-starred in the feature film Swing (2003/I), shot in the San Franscico bay area and directed by Martin Guigui.  read more »

Professor Hannah Riley Bowles is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School and on the staff of the Center for Public Leadership. She is engaged in research on negotiation and leadership. She is interested in how people negotiate for resources and opportunities to advance into leadership positions and when gender differences tend to arise in negotiation expectations and performance.
Mel Sauerbeck is an awarding photographer. His photos have appeared in major magazines worldwide including Time, Life, People, and Sports Illustrated.During his career, this style-making photographer has traveled the world, photographing everything from heads of state in their palaces, to monks along mountain paths, to models on the catwalk, to children in remote villages.

This Week's Guests: Robby Benson & Camie Bargerstock

Robby Benson is an American film and television actor, television director and educator. As an actor he was nominated for the three Golden Globe Awards. As a director Robby helmed over 100 episodes in television, from Friends to an entire season of Ellen.As a composer Robby has written scores for films, received two RIAA Gold Records for songwriting for Diana Ross and for The Breakfast Club soundtrack. Open Heart the musical by Robby Benson will open at Fairfield's Sondheim Center June 20.

Camie Bargerstock designed her a curriculum entitled The Cultural Organization of Death and Dying in which she studied America's perceptions, rituals, and systems surrounding death, dying, and grief, a reality she observes as rooted in a culture of fear and denial. She envisions a new paradigm, one that nurtures and embodies the end of life journey as a part of life and creative rite of passage worth crossing.

Next Week's Guests: Laura Dawn & Andy Zelleke

Laura Dawn is a political activist and singer/songwriter. She has been the Cultural Director for MoveOn.org and the MoveOn PAC since March 2004.She appears on Moby's latest album Hotel, and she toured the world with him for 7 months in 2005.

Andy Zelleke is the co-directorof the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining Harvard’s Kennedy School faculty, Zelleke was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.His articles on corporate governance have appeared in Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Directors & Boards, and Corporate Governance: An International Review.  read more »

FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA. Governor Ventura was elected in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998 as an Independent and member of the Reform Part. His victory is considered one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. history. His most recent book is entitled, Don't Start the Revolution Without Me.

ARTHUR S. BERGER, THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM'S SENIOR ADVISOR FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. In this position, he focuses on the Museum’s international relations, VIP and Development-related outreach, and key aspects of the Museum’s public relations.

FORMER CALIFORNIA STATE SENATOR ART TORRES (Ret.), Chairman, California Democratic Party. Senator Torres was elected Chairman of the California Democratic Party in 1996. He has been a leader in the Latino community, fighting for better representation and more rights for the state's large and important Latino/Chicano population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Torres

SARA ESTRIN. Ms.Estrin recently returned from working with Robin Lim, founder, director, and head midwife of the nonprofit clinic Yayasan Bumi Sehat in Bali, Indonesia. http://www.bumisehatbali.org/

Next week: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura