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Scott with some thoughts about the girl who was dismissed from the lead role in the musical Annie.

Scott speaks with the Math Guy, Keith Devlin, about the mathematics of knots. Knot theory has contributed enormously to both physics and, more recently, the understanding of DNA.

Scott talks with marketing director Pryce Boeye about the new "hold" message Budget Rent-A-Car has placed on it toll-free reservation line.

President Bush has made it an agenda item to provide federal grants to faith-based service organizations. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels to Lufkin, Texas, and looks at how one faith-based partnership works.

This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are not obliged to pay damages to disabled state employees under federal law. Lisa Simeone talks to Deborah Kaplan, executive director of the World Institute on Disability, based in Oakland, California, and Peter Blanck, director of the Law, Health Policy and Disability Center at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson about the continuing controversy over the pardons and commutations announced by then-President Clinton.

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look at Faithless, the latest in the 35 year collaboration between filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and actress/director Liv Ullman.

Reese Erlich reports on the Panorama Music Festival in Trinidad, which features the best steel or pan drummers in the country.

Paul Brown reports on the legacy of the Highlander Folk School. It was founded in 1932 to help unionize workers during the Great Depression, mostly in Appalachia. But as times and issues changed the school devoted itself to the growing civil rights movement in the 1950's. Many historians say the Highlander Folk School was instrumental in organizing the fight for civil rights in America.

Scott reads letters from listeners.