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Graves County High School history teacher Scott Bradley has been named principal of the school’s Freshman Academy. Bradley graduated from Graves County…

Brent and Jason restarted recording Season 7 with this seemingly obligatory episode on the pandemic, that is, the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic! They take a…

Linda talks with Liz and Christy Carpenter -- two delegates with a long history of Democratic Conventions. Liz Carpenter was in Philadelphia in 1948 -- as a very young, very green reporter. She later became Press Secretary to Lady Bird Johnson. Today, she's a delegate from Texas. Her daughter Christy is a delegate from California. Her first convention was in Atlantic City, New Jersey -- in 1964. She was more excited about the possibility of seeing the Beatles afterward.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Spiver (SPY-ver) Gordon, Deacon of the Christian Light Presbyterian Church in Eutaw (YOO-tah), Alabama, about efforts to protect his church. Three churches have already been burned in his community, which has a history of civil rights activity. Because the church is located in an isolated rural area, parishoners are visiting during the night to watch it. (4:30) (Stations: Donations may be sent to Greene County-SLC Burned Church Fund, 334 Auburn, P.O. Box 89128 Atlanta, Georgia,

As the leader of the Roman Catholic church prepares to old a historic meeting with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Liane Hansen is joined y author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein to discuss his ew book, "His Holiness: John Paul the Second and the Hidden History of Our Time (Doubleday). Bernstein and co-author Marco Politi tell of an alleged "holy lliance" between the Pope and then-President Ronald Reagan to hasten the demise f communism in eastern Europe.

Virginia Cherril Martini, who played the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's 1931 movie "City Lights," died last Thursday at the age of 88. Noah talks to Patrick Loughney of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division/Moving Image Section of the Library of Congress about her famous final scene with Chaplin and the movie's significance in film history. Loughney says Cherril was able to capture the essence of the blind girl, without being pitiful. That final scene took months of rehearsal.

Garbage expert Benjamin Miller discusses the history of rubbish in New York. Hes the former director of policy planning for the New York City Department of Sanitation. Hes just written a book on the subject, entitled Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York: The Last 200 Years. (Four Walls Eight Windows) Miller says that the dumping of garbage has literally shaped New York City as it took over surrounding islands and bulked up Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

Wiener spent 14 years fighting to gain access to the FBIs secret files on John Lennon. Wieners Freedom of Information case went all the way to the Supreme Court before the FBI decided to settle. His book Gimme Some Truth outlines and reproduces the most important pages of the file, revealing that the Nixon administration plotted to deport Lennon in 1972 and silence him as a voice of the anti-war movement. Wiener is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and also author of Come Together: John Lennon and His Time.

Robert talks with Robert Dallek, Professor of History at Boston University and author of Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents about why Richard Nixon didn't challenge John F. Kennedy in 1960 over ballots in Illinois. One theory is that a challenge in Illinois would have invited Democratic challenges in other states. Another theory is that because of the missile gap with the Soviet Union, a challenge would have been bad for the country. (4:15)Hail To the Chief is published by Hyperion Press, 1996.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports numerous non-profit organizations will receive a package of grants worth $42 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. In honor of the foundation's 25th anniversary, NPR received the single largest grant ever in public radio history. The Chicago arts community is the biggest beneficiary with remaining funds going to the Lyric Opera of Chicago, nine musuems, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Joffrey Ballet.