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Scott talks to Detroil blues singer Alberta Adams who recorded her first album at the age of 77.

Scott with some thoughts on how the presidential debates should be run.

This week a bill directing millions to poor rural communities by way of the timber industry passed. Kristian Foden-Vencil of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

NPR'S Howard Berkes explores Australia's passion for swimming. In the first day of Olympic swimming competition, five world records fell. Australian talent Ian Thorpe thundered through the water with victories in single and relay events, stirring hopes that the Australians can replace America as the sport's dominant team.

NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr review the week's news.

This week Chase Manhattan Corporation announced it would merge with J.P. Morgan and Company. Although the new company will be called J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, the merger closes a chapter on the storied history of the 150-year old Morgan bank. Scott speaks with Fortune Magazine's editor-at-large Joe Nocera about the end of banks as we know them.

Bellamy Pailthorp of member station KPLU in Seattle has a profile of 16 year old jazz piano prodigy Aaron Parks.

Host Jacki Lyden tours the exhibit Sylvia Snowden: Malik, Farewell 'Til We Meet Again with artist Sylvia Snowden. The artist discusses coping with her son's murder in 1993, and the emotionally-charged art it inspired.

The first medals of the Sydney Olympics were handed out...The first gold medal was won by a relatively unknown American... But it's swimming that is attracting the most attention right now. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Host Scott Simon talks with author and Olympic historian David Wallchinsky about what it takes to add a new sport to the Olympics, and which sports are currently contenders for future games.

Scott gets a voice lesson from the Miamians Men's Chorus voice coach Gene Cokeroft.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Perkins, the first African-American mayor of Selma, Alabama. The defeated mayor, Joe Smitherman, was the man who called out the National Guard on civil rights protesters in 1965.