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NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing on the U.S. Navy personnel held in China after their spy plane made an emergency landing. U.S. diplomats are expected to be allowed access to them today.

Mark Moran of member station KJZZ in Phoenix reports that the Tucson Air Force Base is testing "Giant Voice:" a loudspeaker that can project for up to six miles. The residents nearby hate it.

Sports commentator John Feinstein talks to host Bob Edwards about last night's NCAA championship basketball game between Duke and Arizona State.

Robert Siegel speaks with John Hutson, the dean of Franklin Pearce Law School in Concord, New Hampshire about the legal procedures against the captain of a U.S. submarine that collided with a Japanese vessel off Hawaii earlier this year. Cmdr. Scott Waddle -- the captain of the USS Greeneville -- faces disciplinary action that will likely end his career. Nine people from the Japanese ship -- a trawler used to teach high school students to fish -- died in the accident. Hutson is a retired Navy rear admiral and Navy judge advocate general.

Film Critic Bob Mondello reviews The Visit, based on a true story about a man dying of AIDS in prison, waiting for a visit from his unforgiving father. It stars Hill Harper, Billy Dee Williams, Felicia Rashad, and others. Mondello was surprised at how affirmative it is.

NPR's Joe Palca reports from Plum Island which, by law, is the only place in the United States allowed to handle Foot and Mouth Disease.

NPR's Religion Correspondent Duncan Moon reports on African-American churches around the country that are consolidating into large "mega-churches." The groups are channeling their combined wealth into an entrepreneurial spirit that fuels massive redevelopment projects such as constructing low-income housing, homeless shelters, day care centers, gyms, and job-training centers. The churches are wrestling with their missionary mandates to revitalize both individuals and the communities where they live.

Chicagos'Steppenwolf Theatres production of One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest is also on Broadway. . .We feature interviews with actor Gary sinise who stars in it, and director Terry Kinney. Steppenwolf is an actor-driven theatre known for its ensemble acting, and cutting-edge acting style.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Isolation Drills the new release by the band Guided by Voices.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews a new French movie, Bad Company. Based on a true story, the film gives a glimpse of the frenzied intensity of teenage love in a strikingly accurate way, that Turan claims, only the French can do.