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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr has read two new books by ormer KGB operatives, and finds fiction may be more fascinating than the truth. :30 The books discussed are "My Five Cambridge Friends," by Yuri Modin, and Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America," by Yuri Sh

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:40 This week's on-air player lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and listens to WEMU, psi

SCOTT TALKS WITH STEVE BLASCO ABOUT RESEARCHERS' DISCOVERY OF WHAT LED TO THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC: BRITTLE METAL. THE DETAILS APPEAR IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF "POPULAR SCIENCE."

NPR'S HOWARD BERKES REPORTS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO RESTORE WOLVES TO PARTS OF WYOMING AND IDAHO.

SIMON/THE NATION: AMERICA'S OLDEST WEEKLY MAGAZINE CHANGED OWNERSHIP THIS WEEK. "THE NATION," FOUNDED IN 1865, WAS PURCHASED BY A GROUP HEADED BY THE MAGAZINE'S EDITOR, VICTOR NAVASKY. THE GROUP INCLUDES NOVELIST E.L. DOCTOROW AND ACTOR PAUL NEWMAN.

NPR'S ERIC WEINER REPORTS ON INDIA'S STRUGGLE TO CHANGE FROM A SOCIALIST ECONOMY TO A FREE-MARKET.

WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT REVIEWS THIS WEEK'S AGREEMENT BETWEEN NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYERS AND CLUB OWNERS, WHICH ENDED THEIR THREE-AND-A-HALF MONTH OLD LABOR DISPUTE.

SCOTT SIMON MUSES ABOUT CHANGES THAT WILL BRING MORE HONESTY TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

SCOTT TALKS WITH EARTHA KITT, THE SULTRY VETERAN OF STAGE, SCREEN, AND NIGHTCLUBS, ABOUT HER NEW CD--THE FIRST SHE HAS RECORDED IN THIS COUNTRY IN 20 YEARS. "EARTHA KITT - BACK IN BUSINESS," DRG RECORDS, 91431.

WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE MOVIE "HIGHER LEARNING" BY DIRECTOR JOHN SINGLETON.