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British cyclist Bradley Wiggins has won the gold medal in the men's individual time trial event, beating Germany's Tony Martin by 42 seconds, at 50 minutes and 39 seconds over the course of 49 kilometers. Wiggins is now the most-decorated Olympian in British history.

Melissa Block reads letters from listeners about a conversation with Yale history professor Beverly Gage about her article for Slate, which asks, "Why is there no liberal Ayn Rand?"

Obama picked Indiana, Florida, Louisville and Ohio State to advance to the final four. Unfortunately, the commander in chief has a checkered history picking NCAA winners.

DAVID GARROW is a Pulitzer Prize winning author for his biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., "Bearing the Cross." His newest book is a history of the struggle for birth control rights during the 1920s and 30s and how that paved the way for the abortion rights struggle. Along the way, GARROW examines how these rights are tied in with issues of privacy and sexuality. GARROW found that the arguments used in the birth control rights struggle were the same ones used in the struggle for abortion rights. His new book is "Liberty & Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade."(MacMillan Publishin

2: Rock and roll critic DAVE MARSH talks about the song "Louie, Louie". He's written a book about it called, "Louie, Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song: Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I., and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere, the Actual Dirty Lyrics." (Hyperion) The song was written by Richard Berry in 1957...as a talke of a lovesick Jamaican sailor. When the Kingsmen recorded it in 1957, the lyrics were incomprehensible and mistaken for being dirty. It set off a series of events that Marsh details in his book.

Playwright, female impersonator, and now novelist CHARLES BUSCH. His play, the camp classic, "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," was the longest-running play in Off-Broadway history. His other plays include, "Psycho Beach Party," and "Red Scare on Sunset." He has a new show which parodies the variety shows of the 60s, "The Charles Busch Revue," in which he makes seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. One reviewer writes, "Among New York's drag performers, he is certainly the most congenial. Instead of freezing into imperious divalike poses and spewing hostile sexual challenges, he is a man who revels in the opportunity to get himself up in drag, the more flamingly tacky the better, and create a party around it." BUSCH's first novel, "Whores of Lost Atlantis," will be published in November. (Hyp

2: Biologist EDWARD GOLUB, whose book "The Limits of Medicine" (Random House) explores the history of medical advances and argues that medicine's new goal should be to extend health, not life span. There will be no "magic bullet" for today's major illnesses (cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's) like there was for earlier scourges like polio, smallpox and diphtheria, he says. EDWARD GOLUB was a professor of biology at Purdue University for twenty years and a director of research in the pharmaceutical industry for five years. He is president of the Pacific Center for Ethics and Applied Biology, a nonprofit group exploring the relationship between basic and applied biology.

CYNTHIA LENNON was the first wife of Beatle musician John Lennon. Terry talked with Cynthia in 1985. .She wrote a book about her years with Lennon in 1978 called A Twist of Lennon by Avon. They met in art school in 1957 and were married in 1962. During the years John toured the world, as a member of the most popular rock group in history, Cynthia was at home raising their son Julian. Cynthia and John Lennon divorced in 1968 after John fell in love with Yoko Ono. John Lennon was killed 12 years later. As their son, Julian, launched his own career as a musician, Cynthia Lennon developed her work as a designer. (Originally aired 8

LINDA WERTHEIMER has been with NPR since the network first went on the air with All Things Considered, May 3, 1971. Wertheimer is a host of NPR's "All Things Considered." Wertheimer has come out with a book that looks back at some of the key events in American history as they were covered by NPR. Stations: Linda Wertheimer's Listening to America: Twenty-Five years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio (Houghton Mifflin) It will be released May 29, 1995. The book marks 25th Anniversary of the founding of NPR not ATC.

2: Entomologist and professor MAY BERENBAUM, who was afraid of bugs until she took a course on insects in college. Her new book is "Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs" (Addison-Wesley), which tries to show insects in a new light. BERENBAUM demonstrates the importance of insects in everyday life and throughout history, and explores the lifestyles of some of the more than ten quintillion insects that inhabit the earth at any given moment. BERENBAUM is also hosts the annual Insect Fear Film Festival, which will be held this weekend, February 25 & 26, at the University of Illinois.