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Noah and Robert pay tribute to former assistant All Things Considered Producer Akili Ramon Tyson.

Jazz musician, BOB DOROUGH, musical director of the 1970s educational TV series, "School House Rock" and composer of the popular song "Three is a magic number". A new CD, "Schoolhouse Rock Rocks", has been released with contemporary artists such as Blind Melon, Lemonheads and Pavement, playing the old songs. Also, just published, "School House Rock: The Official Guide". (Hyperion Books) by the creators of the series, Tom Yohe and George Newall

Noah talks with Sharyn McCrumb, the author of a novel about the death of Randall Stargill, and his four sons who come home to witness his passing. As in many of McCrumb's novels, the story is set in East Tennessee and concerns family, history, and the future of the land. McCrumb says she draws on many ideas from Celtic (KELL-tik) history, and that she plays music for inspiration while she writes. Furthermore, she doesn't always know the actual plotline of her mysteries when she begins. ("The Rosewood Casket" is published by Dutton.)

Robert Siegel, live from Jerusalem, reports on the day of voting in Israel. Results are not expected for at least a day...but exit poll information will be available. And we'll go to both Labor and Likud party headquarters.

The Breakfast club -- obituary of Don McNeill - longtime host of the radio program "DON MCNEILL'S BREAKFAST CLUB". He was 88 and died Tuesday of respitory illness. He program lasted 35 years and was done live WITH an audience. Noah talks to Chicago Broadcast Historian Sterling "RED" Quiland and we hear ecerpts from some of the Shows.

being put into place for the Summer Olympic Games. A huge force will provide protection for athletes, official, and visitors. It includes 15-hundred members of the Atlanta Police Department, 600 officers from the State of Georgia, a private security force numbering several thousand, and a large number of federal agents.

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the recent memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

who are participating in a welfare-to-work job training program... Their first paychecks highlight the rewards and pitfalls of their entrance into the work force.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen about the future of Afghanistan. The Taliban say Afghans who worked with Americans aren't in danger and women may work outside the home.

The Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan. What does it mean for the Afghan people? In the 90s, when last they ruled, it was a brutal, utterly ruthless regime that terrorized its people.