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NPR's Ted Clark reports on today's meeting between India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajapayee and President Clinton. The meeting is expected to improve U.S.-Indian relations, are tackling a main point of disagreement- India's nuclear weapons policies.

Scott talks to Detroil blues singer Alberta Adams who recorded her first album at the age of 77.

NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr review the week's news.

This week a bill directing millions to poor rural communities by way of the timber industry passed. Kristian Foden-Vencil of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

Scott speaks with the "Doyenne of Dirt," Ketzel Levine, about her new book: Plant This, published by Sasquatch Books.

Bellamy Pailthorp of member station KPLU in Seattle has a profile of 16 year old jazz piano prodigy Aaron Parks.

Host Scott Simon talks with author and Olympic historian David Wallchinsky about what it takes to add a new sport to the Olympics, and which sports are currently contenders for future games.

Scott gets a voice lesson from the Miamians Men's Chorus voice coach Gene Cokeroft.

Scott with some thoughts on how the presidential debates should be run.

It was 204 years ago this week that America's first president announced to the nation he would not seek a third term in office. George Washington had entered office a war hero but had become discouraged by newspaper attacks on his character. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington biographer Willard Sterne Randall about how Washington's departure paved the way for a two-party system and for a tradition of attacks on character.