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Actor Om Puri is a star of Bombay's film industry, known as Bollywood. In his two decades of acting he's worked with every major Indian film director including Satyajit Ray. In western films he had roles in Gandhi and City of Joy, and in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown. Hes had starring parts in two British films My Son the Fanatic, and the film East is East. His latest film is the Merchant Ivory production, The Mystic Masseur based on the novel by V.S. Naipaul.

Photographer and reporter Scott Peterson of The Christian Science Monitor has been covering the war on terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks. He is also the paper's Moscow bureau chief, and a former Middle East correspondent. Peterson recently attended a training camp for journalists to learn how to deal with kidnappers and gunmen. He was also a friend of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. Peterson is the author of the book Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda.

Australian singwriter-musician Paul Kelly talks with Weekend Edition Sunday's Lynn Neary about the craft of songwriting, the search for inspiration, and why he's not too worried about his relative obscurity in the United States.

The Kentucky Derby runs Saturday. But All Things Considered guest host Liane Hansen previewed the pomp and tradition surrounding Kentucky horse racing with a visit to another Bluegrass track: Keeneland. It's a favorite spot for breeders, owners and trainers, who love the business despite the risks.

Composer and lyricist Richard Adler. In the 1950s, he collaborated with his partner, Jerry Ross, on the Broadway musicals Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game. He later became an impresario and organizer of events. His wrote a memoir, You Gotta Have Heart. The Pajama Game is currently being revived by City Center Encores in Manhattan.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says he thinks a military conflict between India and Pakistan can be averted. "There's nothing inevitable about war," he tells NPR's Juan Williams in an interview for Morning Edition. When it comes to Iraq, Powell is less adamant about the hopes for a political solution.

In 1991, a group of scientists entered Biosphere 2 for a two-year experiment that would test whether humans could survive in a closed environment. The experiment wasn't exactly a success. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, researchers are now trying to show that Biosphere 2 can serve another purpose -- as a laboratory to study Earth systems.

A mock assault on downtown Macon, Ga., is the latest step in training for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The exercise is designed to show Marines the difficulties of negotiating urban terrain -- with a strong emphasis on anti-terrorism efforts. NPR's David Molpus reports on Morning Edition.

We remember the poet Kenneth Koch, who died Saturday.

NPR's Frank Browning reports from Barcelona on the 14th International AIDS Conference. Former presidents Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela addressed the conference on Friday. They warned that though the epidemic is growing faster in developing nations, the spread of HIV also threatens industrial nations.