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Banning Eyre reviews the latest recording by the Lebanese composer Marcel Khalife. The work features the Arabic lute, the oud. It's entitled "Jadal: Oud Duo" and it's part of Khalife's on-going attempt to create a solo instrumental repertoire for the oud, which is traditionallly used as a backing instrument for a singer. Eyre finds the piece, which runs just over and hour, to be addictive!

JOYCE DIXSON co-founded "Sons and Daughters of the Incarcerated" a group which helps children whose own parents are in prison. Dixson served seventeen years in prison after being convicted of shooting her husband. DIXSON herself left two children behind when she went to prison in 1976. During her time there she became a paralegal and became the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan while incarcerated. DIXSON reduced her sentence from a first-degree murder charge to a second-degree and was released from prison in 1993. She went directly to the University of Michigan and earned a master's degree in social work.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone with a report on juvenile stand-up comics.

Scott speaks with actor Angela Lansbury about her roots in England and in the musical theater.... and about her starring role in a new musical for television: 'Mrs. Santa Claus'. (airs Sunday night o

- In southern New Jersey, Girl Scouts are staging a work slow-down as they sell their legendary cookies from door-to-door. The scouts are insisting they be allowed to keep 10 cents more per box, a demand that Girl Scout officials have rejected. Jacki speaks with Jan Snyder, the Girl Scout supervisor who organized the labor action, who says her superiors are nickle and diming her troops.

Radio feature producer Sandy Tolan grew up in Wisconsin. He shares some thoughts about what the Superbowl means to him.

- Jacki speaks with Albany, Georgia, City Commissioner Marvin Bannister, who wants to pull the plug on the televised procedings of his commission. Bannister wants to thwart his rivals in neighboring towns, who are using videotape of the commission's inept deliberations to lure business away from Albany.

- Jacki talks with Bruce Harris, Director of Covenant House, a Latin America-based organization dedicated to helping the increasing numbers of homeless kids living on the streets of the region's cities. Harris is about to travel to Sweden with three of the kids to receive a humanitarian award.

Six foreign aid workers, including four nurses, were shot at point-blank range and killed today at a Red Cross hospital south of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The identities of those responsible remain unknown; both the Russian and Chechen governments have condemned the attack.