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Host David Wright speaks with Dr. Fred Luskin of the Stanford Medical Center about the science of forgiveness.

What would a local news broadcast be without its rousing Action News! theme song? Host David Wright speaks with 24-year-old Byron Graziano of New York City, who collects local news themes for his web site, the TV News Music Museum. http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/7612/

Host David Wright talks with ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D, about his new book Medicine Quest. Plotkin has done extensive research throughout the rainforests of South America to explore the healing secrets of the natural world. Plotkin says we have a lot to learn from the biodiversity of the rainforest, especially from unlikely sources such as spiders, snakes and tree bark.

WGCU Reporter Amy Tardif takes listeners on a tour of North America's only public tree canopy walkway, located in Myakka River State Part in Sarasota, Florida.

Scott talks to Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's first symphony ("Symphony #1 in C-major").

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.

Liane reads letters and e-mails from listeners.

Liane talks to Owen Ullman, Washington Editor of USA Today, about the meeting of the G-8 in Okinawa and the underlying hostility many European countries feel toward the US and its stress on economic efficiency.

Liane Hansen speaks with Maine-based singer/songwriter Carol Noonan. She's just released a CD single calledA Song from Harry, written in tribute to fishermen Harry Ross, Sr. and Larry Rich, who died at sea on January 25th of this year. A portion of the proceeds from the CD will go to help New England fishing families who've been struck by tragic circumstance. The CD is available from www.carolnoonanmusic.com.

A former US Olympic Committee official alleges the USOC not only looked the other way, but encouraged Olympic athletes to take performance enhancing drugs. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.