Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 20, 2000: Interview with Vjosa Bobruna; Interview with Nils Daulaire; Obituary for Nancy Marchand.

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INT. 1: Dr. VJOSA DOBRUNA ('Vee-YO-sa Doe-BRU-na') is one of this year's recipients of the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights. She's being recognized for her work as founder of the Pristina Center for the Protection of Women and Children, which treats those victimized by rape, torture, or psychological trauma. DOBRUNA is a pediatrician neurologist. During the war, she fled to Macedonia and set up work in a Macedonian refugee camp. DOBRUNA narrowly escaped arrest last year. Her colleague, Dr. Flora Brovina, is the other receipient of the award. But Brovina is in a Serb prison, convicted of terrorism for providing medicine and knitting wool to women who were allegedly aiding members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).INT. 2: DR. NILS DAULAIRE is the president of the Global Health Council, one of the three non-governmental organizations that administers the Jonathan Mann Award, named after the late doctor who was a pioneer in the fight against AIDS and connecting global health and human rights.REV. : We remember actress NANCY MARCHAND who died Sunday at the age of 71. Most recently she was best-known for playing the bitter mother of Tony Soprano in the HBO series 'The Sopranos.' During the 1970s she played the newspaper publisher on the 'Lou Grant' show. (interview with TV critic DAVID BIANCULII rebroadcast from 3/18/99)