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Puzzle master Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 9:34 This week's puzzle player is Pnina (P'NEE-nah) Stern of New York city; her ublic radio station is W-N

Maureen Hanley reports on the efforts of Irish Radio (RTE) to reserve their deteriorating collection of field recordings of traditional Irish usic. Some of the recordings date back to the 1920's, and are in the process of eing digitaly re-mastered.

NANCY POSTERO VISITS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF BAHIA (bah-EE-ah) AND PROFILES THE "DR. RUTH" OF BRAZIL, A MAN WHO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT SEX AND CONTRACEPTION IN THAT CATHOLIC COUNTRY.

AS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BOMBING IN OKLAHOMA CITY CONTINUES TO UNFOLD, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTS SO FAR.

OKLAHOMA: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S WADE GOODWYN ABOUT THE MOOD IN PERRY, OKLAHOMA, WHERE TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH, ONE OF THE MEN ACCUSED OF BOMBING THE FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY.

NPR'S LYNN NEARY REPORTS ON THE BILLION-DOLLAR CHRISTIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, THAT RANGES FROM TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN MUSIC TO HI-HOP POP.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 6:14 This week's on-air player lives in Syracuse, New York and listens to WRVO, s

The O.J. Simpson murder trial has become one of he most watched and talked about legal events in contemporary American history. ost Liane Hansen speaks with Mathew Angle, columnist for the Manchester uardian newspaper in England, and Hiroshi Sugimoto (hee-ROW-shee oo-ghee-MOE-toe), the Los Angelos Bureau Chief for the Japanese daily newspaper sahi Shimbum (ah-SAH-hee SHIM-boon) about the reaction in their countries to he trial.

NPR's John Burnett reports from Oklahoma City on two parents who's children are still missing after the bomb explosion in Oklahoma City.

Daniel talks with Mark Kincaid who until recently worked for the Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC) - an independant state agency that monitors how insurance companies operate. OPIC recently conducted a survey of insurers doing business in Texas on those companies confidential underwriting guidelines. In many cases, Kincaid says, insurance companies will disqualify applicants for seemingly groundless reasons, such as working in casinos or beauty parlors.