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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that free oil shipments to North Korea are beginning in exchange for the government's abandonment of nuclear weapons. Republicans say that the deal isn't tough enough on the North Koreans.

Daniel talks with Jim Wallis, author of the "Soul of Politics". Wallis says both Republicans and Democrats are entrenched in old ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to the topic of welfare reform. Wallis says that both the left and the right have some good ideas when it comes to solving welfare woes, but he says real reform will only occur when both the public and private sector begins to take collective responsibility for the country's problems.

Danny speaks with Dr Philip Williams, a hydrologist in San Francisco, about the dangers of building on the flood plain. He says that Californians who were flooded out this past week should take heed of the lessons learned by residents along the Mississippi river in 1993.

NPR's Ann Cooper attends the funeral of Joe Slovo, a long time South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and Communist Party. She has this remembrance.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both civil rights leaders but they had very different approaches in their efforts to gain equality for blacks in a white dominated society. Daniel talks with Orlando Bagwell, producer of the documentary "Malcolm X, Make It Plain", about the relationship between the two leaders and how it evolved over time.

Nothern California is still at the mercy of on-going rain torms, and the Russian River in Sonoma County has risen far above normal evels. Chris Arnold of KQED in San Francisco reports that property damages in he the Sonoma region are estimated at over 20 million dollars so far.

LETTERS: We hear letters from our listeners.

Liane Hansen speaks with multimedia performance and ecording artist Laurie Anderson about her first album in more than four years, Bright Red" (Warner Brothers, CD# 9 45534 2). Laurie joins us from her studio n SOHO, New York, as she prepares for her national performance tour that begins his spring.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & LAURA KNOY

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on a federally-sponsored program o provide flood insurance to residential and commercial property owners. This overnment support is useless unless property owners purchase the low-cost nsurance, and as it turns out, most Californians do not hold these roperty-saving policies.