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NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on the much anticipated homecoming of the 24 men and women held in China for 11 days after their Navy plane went down there.

Commentator Charles Eisendrath notes that many, many people hold trout fishing licenses.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader, later this month. Whoever is selected will face a difficult task: trying to revive the Japanese economy. Japan is stuck in its worst economic downturn since World War II. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

Scott speaks with Forrester Church, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City, about the Jefferson Bible.

Harry Secombe died this week. He was 79 years old. Sir Harry was co-creator, along with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, of the BBC's The Goon Show.

Lisa talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about today's funeral in Cincinnati for Timothy Thomas, the 19-year-old black man who was shot by police a week ago. The city will be under a curfew for the third night in a row, as officials try to come to grips with recent rioting.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports that, with tax day almost here, many Americans are still grappling with our complex tax code system.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Charlie Wilburn, a former member of the Cincinnati City Council and Jenny Laster, the spokesperson for a group of black political and religious leaders in Cincinnati; Richard Anderson, CEO, Northwest Airlines, and O.V. Delle-Femine, National Director, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association; Attorney General John Ashcroft on the decision to allow a closed-circuit feed of the Timothy McVeigh execution to Oklahoma City; an announcement inside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, where 43 people died in a stampede last Wednesday; one of the fans who escaped the stampede; President George W. Bush; Lieutenant Shane Osborn, commander of the damaged US Navy spy plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island two weeks ago; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi; and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with J.D. McClatchy, the editor of a series of Random House audio books called The Voice of the Poet. The series includes never before released recordings of eminent poets. We'll hear Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Randall Jarrell read their own works.

Lisa talks with Huang Yasheng of Harvard University about the reaction of young people in China to the spy plane incident.

Lisa talks with young fans at RFK Stadium, who are there today for the first game of the WUSA, the professional American women's soccer league.

Lisa talks with NPR's Ivan Watson, who's in the West African country of Benin, about the anticipated arrival of a ship that's carrying around 200 children who've been taken as indentured servants.