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SIMON/BERKELEY HOUSE: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ARCHITECT EUGENE TSUI (t-SOU-ee) ABOUT A HOME HE DESIGNED AND IS CONSTRUCTING FOR HIS PARENTS IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, WHICH HE SAYS IS "QUAKE-PROOF, FLOOD-PROOF, FIRE-PROOF AND TERMITE-PROOF."

Michael Jordan returned to the National Basketball Association this afternoon. NPR's Scott Simon was at Chicago Bulls game against the Indiana Pacers and talks with Jacki about Jordan's return.

2: Gospel/R&B singer FONTELLA BASS has a new gospel album, "No Ways Tired." Her R&B hit "Rescue Me" came out in 1965. She was given no credits and no royalties for the song. Soon after, disenchanted with the industry, she retired to raise a family. In recent years she has been on a comeback while getting back to her roots as a gospel singer

FROM LONDON, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LAST NIGHT'S RULING BY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT STAYED THE SCHEDULED EXECUTION OF CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST CLARENCE LACKEY IS SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH BAR WHICH, THIS WEEK, FILED A FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF ON HIS BEHALF.

Professor GREGORY HOWARD WILLIAMS. He spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black. WILLIAMS has written "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" (Dutton) about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher's Weekly calls it "(an) affecting and absorbing story.

Fresh Air rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new album "To Bring You My Love,"(Island Records) from the English band PJ Harvey. The album is being touted as the bands commercial breakthrough.

Jacki talks to NPR's Brian Naylor about the lastest budget cuts in Congress. Last week House appropriations subcomittes cut $7.2 billion from non-military domestic programs such as low income housing and nutritional programs for pregnant women and children.

Jacki speaks with Professor Dirk Vandewalle of Dartmouth College..and Algerian artist TAhar Bouqeterie about the recent violence in Algeria. More than 30-thousand people have been killed in that conflict.

Jacki talks to Jean Bach, producer of the documentary film, "A Great Day in Harlem," which tells the story of a famous photograph of 57 jazz musicians taken in front of a Harlem brownstone in 1958. A young novice photographer, Art Kane, put the word out that the jazz musicians in New York City should all show up at a certain corner one summer morning... and the gathering became a jazz family reunion as much as a photo shoot.

Rock Historian Ed Ward continues his five part series on what impact several small record companies have had on the music world. Today he discusses musician Chris Blackweel and the origins of his label, Island. Rev. 2: World music critic Milo Miles has a review of a new CD called "If You Don''t Know Me by Now: The Best of Harold Melvin and Blue Notes." (Legacy''s Rhythm & Soul S