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- Korva speaks with Labor Historian Alan Draper, who says the ease with which President Clinton stepped in to avert the American Airlines strike is yet another sign that organized labor in the United States is still weak, despite rumors of a comeback under new AFL-CIO chief John Sweeny.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Anne Bancroft. Bancroft and Liv Arnesen have recently become the first women to cross Antarctica on skis. The last leg of their journey measures a relatively small part of the total distance-- though it is equivalent to the distance across France. And because of ice forming off the coast of Antarctica, their boat is leaving on February 22 -- with or without them.

By Jim MichaelMurray, KY – It's evident that the violence in the Middle East has escalated in the past few weeks. What might not be as evident is the…

By Jim MichaelMurray, KY – It's evident that the violence in the Middle East has escalated in the past few weeks. What might not be as evident is the…

Veteran Broadcaster Robert Trout casts back to his early days as a reporter covering politics, to tell the story of the Republican Party's slide from a majority party to the minority in the 1930's and 1940's. For its first seventy years, the GOP was the dominant party. But from Hoover's loss to Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election until now, Republicans have been playing catch-up to the Democrats. This is the first of two reports.

Cultural historian Christopher Frayling is the author of Once Upon A Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone. The book chronicles the history of the spaghetti western. Ennio Morricone, who composed music for the Sergio Leone films, will be awarded an honorary Oscar at this year's Academy Awards. This interview originally aired on Aug. 1, 2005.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Mike Martini and Mark Magistrelli, who just finished producing a second CD on the origins of WLW, a radio station and network based in Cincinnati. For 20 years, from 1921-1941, WLW was a network with talent and resources to rival CBS and NBC. During the late 1930's, the station was granted authorization to broadcast at 500,000 watts -- the most ever allowed to an American radio station by the FCC.

2: History professor and author R. LAURENCE MOORE. His new book is "Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture." (Oxford) MOORE explores the relationship between spiritualism and consumerism in this country over a two-century span. He develops his theses with examples from the lives as such American personalities as P. T. Barnum, Cecil B. DeMille and Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on the National Mall on Saturday. NPR's Sam Sanders talks to visitors and tells us what it was like on the first day.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Karen O'Connor, political science professor and director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University, about widows appointed to Congress in place of their deceased husbands. Jean Carnahan said she would represent Missouri in the US Senate, if her late husband, Mel Carnahan, gets the most votes on Tuesday, and the acting governor appoints her. 44 widows have served in the House and Senate since the 1920s.