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Noah Adams interviews Mason Jennings, a singer-songwriter from Minneapolis. Jennings' main instruments are his guitar and his voice. His sound is simple and folksy and his songs often tell stories drawn from real-life experiences. Jennings talks about how he writes and performs some of his music.

A new book sheds light on one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA in the early '50s. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA highlights the contributions of a chemist whose work went largely unheralded for decades. Howard Berkes talks with author Brenda Maddox. NPR Online has the interview in its entirety.

Forty years ago, Kitty Genovese, 28, was raped and murdered outside a Queens, N.Y., apartment building. In an interview, Mary Ann Zielonko, Genovese' girlfriend and roommate, remembers the victim.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer interviews two Republican strategists, Frank Donatelli of the American Conservative Union, and Don Devine, a former Reagan aide, about what the worsening situation in Iraq means for President Bush's re-election prospects.

In the 1960's he made waves as the lead guitarist in the British rock group The Who. He was world famous for smashing guitars during concerts. Tommy, the rock opera he wrote for The Who in 1969, became a Broadway musical. This interview first aired November 23, 1993.

Singer Mavis Staples is best known for her part in The Staple Singers. The group will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2005 Grammy Awards. We rebroadcast an interview with Staples from June 2, 1989.

Downfall, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, is among the Oscar nominees for best foreign film. The German-made effort details the last days of Adolf Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz. Hirschbiegel and Ganz talk about the film in a wide-ranging interview.

NPR's Martha Raddatz interviews Defense Secretary William Perry who says the the Saudi government is close to completing its investigation of the June bombing of U-S military headquaters there. Perry says he anticipates an announcement that there was an international connection to the bombing. Perry says if there is compelling evidence of international sponorship for that bombing, the U-S will respond with strong action.

Noah interviews Michael Dirda, author of Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, about the collection of essays. He writes about books of every genre, and includes columns about collecting first editions. (7:30) Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, by Michael Dirda is published by Indiana University Press, October 2000.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on a new play, The Exonerated, which is based on interviews with eleven people on Death Row who barely escaped being executed. The first performance featured ten actors who donated their time to the production, including Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, long-time death penalty opponents.