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Talking about racial relations in America can often be a minefield of misunderstanding. But for comedians, it can be a goldmine -- an endless source of great material. In the first of a three-part series, co-host Michele Norris talks with Margaret Cho. Hear an extended version of Cho's interview, and learn more about the series.

Jacki Lyden Jacki welcomes Michele Norris to our program. Michele will be co-hosting with Robert Siegel, beginning Monday. Michele tells Jacki about her journalism background, and lays out some of the stories we can expect to hear from her beginning next week.

From the heartland comes a CD with the beat of slowly waving fields of wheat. Henry Frayne is Lanterna, with the addition of a percussionist. The CD is called Sands. It's filled with instrumental guitar tunes that are dreamy and evocative. David Greenberger has a review. The CD Sands by Lanterna is on the Badman label.

He is the author of the bestseller Boy Still Missing, which is now available in paperback. He relates the saga of getting his photograph taken.

Journalist Owen Bennett Jones is the author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. In the book, he examines the country's turbulent 55-year history. He'll discuss Pakistan's history and its current relationship with the United States. Jones lives in England and has written for The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Independent newspapers and the London Review of Books. He has also reported for BBC Radio and BBC World Television.

A sea squirt's chief claim to fame is that of a pest. It grows on boat hulls and pilings, pumping water in one hole and out the other. But an international team of scientists has recently seized on the squirt as a way to study the evolutionary history of humans and other vertebrates. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Talking about racial relations in America can often be a minefield of misunderstanding. But for comedians, it can be a gold mine -- an endless source of great material. In the second of a three-part series, host Michele Norris talks with Paul Rodriguez. Hear an extended version of the interview, and learn more about the series.

Cardinal Bernard Law's resignation as Archbishop of Boston has symbolic value, but the archdiocese remains in crisis, stained by a sex-abuse scandal and beset by financial problems. Hear from NPR's Duncan Moon, NPR's John Ydstie and Rev. Robert Bullock, chairman of the Boston Priest Forum.

Playwright, actor and director Sam Shepard has a new book of short stories, Great Dream of Heaven. Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. This interview first aired Mar. 31, 1998.

Host Liane Hansen talks to reporter Kevin Begos of the Winston-Salem Journal, about a series the newspaper has just run about a North Carolina state program that sterilized over 7,600 people between 1929 and 1974.