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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.

RACHEL DRETZIN BRINGS US A STORY OF KANITA FOCAK, A SARAJEVAN ARCHITECT AND WIDOW, AND CHARLES LOWE, WHO RUNS A SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGES IN LONDON, WHO SHARE A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP THROUGH LETTERS...AND HAVE NEVER MET.

2: Writer and Chairman of the Center of Post-Soviet Studies, SUSAN EISENHOWER. She is the granddaughter of President Eisenhower who led the United States in the early years of the Cold War. She met and married Roald Sagdeev, the former leader of the Soviet space program. Eisenhower's new book is Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution (Farrar Straus Giroux). It focuses on her relationship with husband Roald Sagdeev, and interweaves their romantic memoir with the inner history of the Cold War.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO TALK-SHOW HOST JOHN ROBBIE ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL RUGBY TEAM, THE SPRINGBOKS, WHO WILL BE PLAYING IN TODAY'S RUGBY WORLD CUP FINAL AGAINST THE ALL BLACKS OF NEW ZEALAND. THE SPORT THAT FORMERLY DIVIDED THE COUNTRY IS NOW UNITING IT.

ESSAY: 18-YEAR-OLD JOHN FEDOTA OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ONE OF THE WINNERS OF NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "COMING OF AGE" CONTEST, READS US HIS ESSAY TITLED "HOW LITTLE WE SEE."