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By Doug FabrizioSalt Lake City, UT – "Mystery: This is the Place" A Radio mystery created and directed by Joyce Cohen. Writer, Jeff Metcalf and Max…

By Doug FabrizioSalt Lake City, UT – Listen to the Show What is the perfect mix for a road trip? Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson? Miles Davis and Stan Getz?…

Host Bob talks to Linda Robinson of U.S. News and World Report about her experience of spending a month with U.S. Special Forces in Colombia. They discuss how the Bush administration is quietly broadening the war on terrorism to include the fight against rebel groups in Colombia.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Peter Robinson, a former speechwriter for President Reagan. He is now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, Hoover Digest. They'll discuss the State of the Union, and how President Bush's address will be crafted.

He writes about the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan which is the setting of Martin Scorsese's new film. Anbinder's book is Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. Anbinder is an associate professor of history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

In swamps and wetlands all over the South, fat, furry rodents called nutria -- a beaver-like animal native to Argentina -- are devouring small plants and sparking huge erosion problems. NPR's Melanie Peeples meets with some Louisiana trappers who earn $4 from the state government for each nutria they kill.

Robert Siegel and historian Tyler Anbinder discuss the historical accuracy of Martin Scorsese's new film Gangs of New York. Anbinber is the author of Five Points: The Nineteenth Century New York Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum.

Is Mrs. Robinson really trying to seduce young Benjamin? Is there really "a great future in plastics"? Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and a Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack made The Graduate an unforgettable coming-of-age movie. On Morning Edition, NPR's Don Lee has the story of the classic 1967 film as part of the Present at the Creation series.

How do Americans spend their time on the job? Lynn Neary talks with John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and co-author of Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time. The book is published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Musicians Joe Hunter and Jack Ashford were part of the group of musicians known as the Funk Brothers whose sound defined Motown in the 1960s and 70s. They worked with such legendary performers as Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Miracles and many more. The Funk Brothers are the subject of the new documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown.