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Actor John Spencer. He plays Leo McGarry, the Chief of Staff to the President in the tv series The West Wing. The show won the coveted Peabody Award in its first season. This week it began it's second season. The show is set in the Whitehouse, and concerning a fictional democratic President and his staff. In the first season of the show, Spencer's character has had to deal with his former alcoholism becoming a matter of public scrutiny. Spencer previously was a regular on L.A. Law and began his career on The Patty Duke Show.

In this special edition of Lost and Found Sound, 20 years of recordings from a small tobacco town were recorded by James Eddie McCoy. The collection is called A Man Tapes his Town -The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy.

Noah talks to an out of work Serbian lawyer Biljana Obradovic. She lives in the town of Kraljevo. She says she and her husband have been anti-Milosevic for the past ten years. She has never found work and hopes the change in government will allow her to do so.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on efforts on Capitol Hill to develop a "patients' bill of rights," which seems unlikely to be approved this year. Negotiators also are working on a "drug reimportation" bill, which would make it easier to import US made drugs after they've been exported, and sell them at lower prices than drugs intended for the US market. The drug bill's chances of becoming law are unclear. It is attached to a popular agriculture measure, and has a better chance of survival than if it stood alone.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Requiem for a Dream which opens in New York today without a rating, but with a theater-enforced ban on viewers under 17 years of age. The producers are protesting a rating of NC-17 from the Motion Picture Association due to the sex in the film. The producers claim the industry is over-reacting to election rhetoric. Even seasoned movie critics, however, find the sex hard to watch.

A cat trying to escape the rain sets off an unfortunate chain of events in Lebanon's capital.

Brooke Gladstone talks to Russian playwright and writer Edvard Radzhinsky about his book The Rasputin File, which explores the infamous faith healer who infiltrated the court of Czar Nicholas II.

Filmmaker Mike Hodges. His debut work, the 1971 Get Carter, was hailed as the greatest British thriller ever. It starred Michael Caine. A new remake of Get Carter is out in theatres, starring Sylvestor Stallone, with an appearance by Caine. Hodges also directed the recent film Croupier.

Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expresses skepticism for President Bush's $1.3-trillion tax-cut package and says Congress must to get the budget deficit under control before it considers any further tax cuts. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with singer Aaron Neville about the ups and downs of his 30 year music career. Neville has just released Devotion, his first-ever collection of inspirational songs and a new book, The Brothers, which tells of his colorful past encompassing drug addiction, burglary and chart- topping records.