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Jacki talks with Iowa Congressman Jim Leach. Leach has spent much of his career tackling issues and escaping political pratfalls. Now the Congressman has been inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Jacki talks with two University of Maryland students. Both Black and both the recipients of scholarships that target African American students. While both are benefit from the scholarship, they sharply disagree on the merit of such programs and on affirmative action programs in general.

Laura Seidel reports from New York on the extradition to Oklahoma of convicted double murderer Thomas Grasso. Grasso had been serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York--a state with no death penalty--but is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma early tomorrow morning.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on conflicting feelings in Japan as the August anniversary of the end of World War Two approaches.

Karen Michel reports from New York on the stage adaptation of neurologist Oliver Sacks' book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat."

Writer WILLIAM MAXWELL has a new collection of short stories All the Days and Nights (Knopf) MAXWELL was fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1936-1976. He worked with such authors as J.D. Salinger, Jon Cheever, Jon Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of others. Jon Updike has said Maxwell's voice is "one of the wisest in American fiction. It is, as well, one of the kindest.

the time has come to mail out hose applications and payments to the summer camp of your and your child's hoice. Liane Hansen speaks with Richard Kennedy, author of "Choosing the Right amp - A Complete Guide to the Best Summer Camp for Your Child," (Times Books) bout a few important points to consider before making the final decision.

Freelance firefighter PETER LESCHAK battles forest fires in the Northwoods and the West...He's not a smoke jumper he says, he's a "grunt"-hiking to remote locations, putting out fires sometimes on his hands and knees-spark by spark. His new memoir is called Hellroaring

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Village Voice columnist and d-expert Leslie Savan about recent television ads that use music by the late inger Janis Joplin and the art of late artist Keith Haring to sell their wares. collection of Savan's essays, titled "THE SPONSORED LIFE: ADS, TV AND AMERICAN ULTURE" was recently published by the Temple University Press.

Liane Hansen speaks with composer, guitarist and programmer Skip cDonald and English producer Adrian Sherwood about their collaboration on music or the group LITTLE AXE, and its debut album, "THE WOLF THAT HOUSE BUILT." The usic has been described as the first "ambient dub blues" project. (Epic/Okeh ecords; EK 64254)

2: In 1989, EVELYN LAU became a best-selling author with her first book: Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (Harper Collins), a memoir of her years on the streets as a suicidal drug addicted teenage prostitute. She also wrote two books of her poetry: You Are Not Who You Claim and Oedipal Dreams. LAU's latest is a collection of short stories titled Fresh Girls and Other Stories. It's been released in the United States by Hyperion. It was released by Harper Collins in 1993 but its distribution was limited. The 23 year old writer lives in Vancouver, Canada.