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Muslims were among the first people at the scene of last week's attacks in Paris. An employee of the kosher supermarket saved hostages, and a policeman died responding to the Charlie Hebdo shootings.

The show's distinctive score is the work of Jeff Beal, who ushers viewers into its clandestine, manipulative and sometimes violent world by breaking a few musical rules.

Two decades after his death, Harry Nilsson has become a common cause for a group of artists hellbent on getting him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (They even wrote a song about it.)

Along with his band The Night Sweats, Rateliff is the voice behind "S.O.B." — a new song with an old sound that's catching a lot of people off guard.

The actor says he got his big break because of a college crush. When she went on an audition, he tagged along, inadvertently starting a career in cologne ads, soap operas — and hit TV shows.

The new album The Other Side of Desire marks Jones' first original material in years, spurred on by a life-changing move to New Orleans.

Film director Haifaa Al Mansour comes from a small town in Saudi Arabia where, she says, there are many girls who have big dreams, strong characters and infinite potential. She's made a movie about one of them, titled Wadjda. Host Michel Martin speaks to Al Mansour about the film and being a female movie director in Saudi Arabia.

Comic W. Kamau Bell's new show, produced by Chris Rock, mixes standup, sketches and interviews. Bell tells Fresh Air about the origins of his political humor and why it's important for him to have a multiracial audience.

The pianist's latest album features some of the most difficult etudes ever written for solo piano by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti.

A handful of armed militants are believed to still be holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. Leaders of several anti-government groups sympathetic to the occupants are urging them to stand down, as the FBI says it's working around the clock to negotiate a peaceful end to the standoff.