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Storyteller Carmen Didi shares another tale of her mother's finesse - this time with the English language.

Host Danny Zwerdling talks with Tom McMillen, co-chair of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. McMillen says that government has created an elite sports structure in America. He says the result is too much money for superstar athletes and not enough money for the average kid. Studies indicate that obesity is a major problem for children and teenagers in America - and it's getting worse.

Journalist EVAN THOMAS. He is Assistant Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief at Newsweek. His new book is The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA (Simon & Schuster). In the book he tells about the men who ran the CIA's covert operations during the worst of the cold war years. THOMAS had access to the CIA's own records about their operations, and he interviewed many of the men involved. THOMAS was the only person to have such access to the CIA's archives. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Daniel talks to Timothy O'Brien, staff writer at the Wall Street Journal about a recent article covering a computer break-in at Citicorp, one of the largest banks in the country. A 28 year old computer hacker in St. Petersburg, Russia, allegedly broke into Citicorps and transfered over 12 million dollars from corporate accounts all over the world to his own account, $400,000 of which he was able to withdraw in cash before getting caught by Citicorps and the FBI.

Among the speakers at today's UN meeting was Cuba's Fidel Castro. It was Castro's first appearance at the UN since 1979, and NPR's Tom Gjelten has been following him around. Tom talks with Daniel about Castro's day.

WITH SANJAY MISHRA (SAHN'-JAY MEESH-RAH) ABOUT HIS NEW ALBUM "BLUE INCANTATION" ON WHICH HE COLLABORATED WITH THE LATE JERRY GARCIA. ("BLUE INCANTATION" ON RAINDOG RECORDS...TEL. 800-297-4856.)

T.V. critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews the season opener of "NYPD Blue."

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Sarajevo that while the fighting has stopped in Bosnia, there's been some trouble in implementing other aspects of a 2-week old ceasefire agreement, those concerning the flow of civilian traffic on the roads.

Bob Mondello reviews the movie "Unzipped," a documentary about the fasion designer Issac Mizrahi. It's very slick and entertaining, he says.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MICHAEL HARRISON, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF TALKERS MAGAZINE AND CO-CHAIRMAN OF TALK RADIO '95 ABOUT THE SELECTION, BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS (NARTSH), OF J. GORDON LIDDY AS THE RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH AWARD.