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Twenty-five Kentucky museums, including four in Paducah and Owensboro are offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families…

British religious scholar, KAREN ARMSTRONG. Her new book, a bestseller in England, is "A History of God" (Knopf). "All religions have been designed to help us touch the God in each other" ARMSTRONG says of her research, which traces 4000 years of Monotheism in the form of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The author, a Catholic nun for seven years in the 1960's, left the order to take a degree at Oxford, and now teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the study of Judaism.

2: KRISTIN CLARK TAYLOR was President Bush's White House director of media relations. In so doing she was the first African-American woman in history to hold that post. She's written a new book about it, "The First to Speak: A Woman of Color inside the White House." (Doubleday).

The O.J. Simpson murder trial has become one of he most watched and talked about legal events in contemporary American history. ost Liane Hansen speaks with Mathew Angle, columnist for the Manchester uardian newspaper in England, and Hiroshi Sugimoto (hee-ROW-shee oo-ghee-MOE-toe), the Los Angelos Bureau Chief for the Japanese daily newspaper sahi Shimbum (ah-SAH-hee SHIM-boon) about the reaction in their countries to he trial.

COMMENTATOR MAUREEN CORRIGAN ON TWO NEW BOOKS OF NON-FICTION: "THEIRS WAS THE KINGDOM" BY JOHN HEIDENRY (NORTON) A HISTORY OF READERS DIGEST, AND "LAND OF DESIRE" BY WLLIAM LEACH (PANTHEON) ABOUT THE RISE OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Mexican author CARLOS FUENTES. Mexico is in flux. On New Years Day, a violent peasant uprising broke out in Chiapas, and thru negotiations, the Zapitistas (as they call themselves) reached a tentative agreement with the government. Then frontrunner presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated as he campaigned in Tijuana. The Mexican government says at least seven people conspired in the killing. FUENTES will discuss recent events in Mexico and the history that shaped them.

Jacki visits the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada, a specialized museum containing 10,000 shoes from throughout history. Included in the exhibit is a 5,000 year old wood-shaped Egyptian shoe, and the shoes worn by former First Lady Pat Nixon to the 1973 inaugural ball. The museum's founder, Sonja Bata has spent the past 40 years collecting the majority of the shoes. She says on the surface footwear is an indication of personal taste and style but viewed chronologically shoes can hold the key to human identity.

Political Analyst Alan Schroeder. His new book Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High Risk TV, (Columbia University Press, 2000) examines the history of the televised presidential debate. Drawing from his experience as a print journalist and TV producer, he details the decisions that influence every aspect of the event: the color of the backdrop curtain to the camera angles chosen. He also looks at the results of past debates, discussing strategies for political effectiveness. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University.

Brooklyn-based historian, author and playwright Charles Mee believes that the greatest plays in human history -- those by the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare -- would never have been written had copyright laws existed to keep the authors from borrowing from the culture around them. Mee puts his money where his mouth is. He makes the texts of his plays freely available on the Web, and forgoes royalties. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

Playwright, female impersonator, and novelist Charles Busch. His play, Psycho Beach Party has been made into a new film. His play, the camp classic, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, was the longest-running play in Off-Broadway history. His other plays include, Red Scare on Sunset and a show which parodied the variety shows of the 60s, The Charles Busch Revue, in which he made seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. Busch's also wrote a novel, Whores of Lost Atlantis. (REBROADCAST from 7