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The funeral for Michael Busch, the longest serving speaker of Maryland’s House of Delegates, has been scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, at St. John…

John Nixon has done both briefing and debriefing, so we'll see what he knows about underwear briefs. The former CIA analyst, who interrogated Saddam Hussein, is the author of Debriefing the President.

Also: Papa John's CEO steps down over controversial remarks; Alabama Senator-elect Doug Jones says the campaign was "surreal"; and firefighters gain ground against California's Thomas Fire.

Daniels portrays former Apple CEO John Sculley in the new film Steve Jobs. We'll ask Daniels about three other people named Steve, and what they do for a living.

Some elements of the Tea Party would like to see John Boehner ousted from his position as House speaker. Even so, Boehner insists there isn't much difference between the Tea Party and Republicans.

2: PAUL RUDNICK is a essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play off-Broadway is a comedy about AIDS, "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex. RUDNICK also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. And he writes a column in Premiere, "If You Ask Me," in which he writes in the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives more than their acting (Rebroadcast from 4/8/93). RUDNICK also wrote the screenplay for the movie "Addams Family Values," starring Angelica Houston and Raul Julia.

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). Recently JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A 'Fresh Air' concert with NICK LOWE. His newest recording is "The Impossible Bird" (Upstart Records). 1994 revives Lowe's solo career. Lowe in the early 1970s played London's pub rock scene in the band Brinsley Schwarz. After the band broke up in 1975, he produced five albums for Elvis Costello. Lowe worked with Dave Edmundsin the group Rockpile. In 1992 he was one quarter of the band "Little Village" with John Hiatt and Ry Cooder. Lowe begins a national concert tour this month in the United States.

NPR's John McChesney returns to the area where his family farmed for many generations in Saline County, Missouri. It's a rich agricultural region, surrounded on two sides by the Missouri River. He compares the way of life he knew as a boy with some of the new farmers. He finds that in some ways the farmers' modern high-tech methods are their own worst enemies: greater yield means flat prices. And in hog farming, the almost-automated life of the modern hog seems immoral to some old-timers who had more affection for their animals.

Robert Siegel talks with Warren Zimmerman, author of First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. Warren Zimmerman was the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989-1992. He talks about how five friends -- President Theodore Roosevelt, naval strategist Alfred T. Mahan, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of State John Hay and corporate lawyer-turned-colonial administrator Elihu Root -- created a new U.S. foreign policy of political expansionism overseas. (7:30) The book is published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2002.

Musician, composer and producer BRIAN ENO. Many of Eno's musical ideas are related to theories approaches initially developed in the classical avant garde, but he has made his greatest mark in pop music. He has a produced many New Wave and other pop bands, like Devo, Talking Heads and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He also collaborated on a recording with musician John Cale. ENO has a new recording "Brian Eno & Jah Wobble: "Spinner" (All Saints Records, due out 10/24/95) (REBROADCAST from 10

British film director and screenwriter MIKE FIGGIS. His latest film is "Leaving Las Vegas." The film is based on the novel by John O'Brien. FIGGIS wrote the screenplay. Shortly after the film went into production, O'Brien killed himself. His father said that the book was O'Brien's suicide note. In the film an alcoholic named Ben, played by Nicholas Cage, goes to Las Vegas to end his life in a final binge. He meets and falls in love with a prostitute and they form a desperate bond. FIGGIS also directed "Stormy Monday," (which he wrote and scored), and "Internal Affairs." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

- Andrea De Leon (Ahn-DRAY-uh DAY-LAY-OWN) reports on the Senate Primary campaign in Maine, which was held this week. Republicans in the state cast ballots for Susan Collins, John Hathaway, and Bob Monks - who were fighting for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Senator William Cohen. Many people in Maine considered the campaign to be one of the nastiest in the state's history. A week before the primary, two newspapers reported that candidate Hathaway had been investigated for allegedly having sex with an underage girl. Hathaway accused candidate Bob Monk of leaking the story to the press. Candidate Susan Collins - who stayed out of the dispute - won the primary with more than 50-percent of the vote.

The El Paso shooter's sentiments echo that of John Tanton, an eye doctor from Michigan who was better known to some as "the architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement."

Daniel talks with two lawyers about a lawsuit against the publisher of a book that contains descriptions of how to commit murder. This lawsuit stems from a 1993 triple murder in Maryland. The man convicted of those killings was hired to do the job and is said to have followed the book's directions in committing murder. The book, "The Hit Man", is essentially a highly detailed manual about how to commit a murder and get away with it. One of the lawyers, John Marshall, filed the suit against the publisher on the behalf of the victims' family. He says the book publisher should be held liable in the deaths of 3 people as well as the convicted hit man. The other lawyer, Jane Curtley of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, says holding the publisher of the book liable for aiding and abetting murder is a dangerous encroachment on free speech.

Tom Manoff listens to The effect of Dolby Surround sound on classical music cd's. In particular 2 cd's, both recorded by engineer John Eargle. Eargle's successful use of Dolby Surround in his recordings come from his style of recording. Tom Manoff says t h e these recordings, know as VR2 (Virtual Reality Recordings) not only sound good on current surround sound systems, and on new expensive surround sound systems, they also sound great on a good old 2 speaker system. (8:00) *** THE MUSIC COMES FROM THE MILLAR BRASS ENSEMBLE'S *** CD: BRASS SURROUND *** DELOS RECORDS 1-800-364-0645 & THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY ANDREW LITTON *** CD: THE 1812 *** OVERTURE DELOS RECORDS. (IN S

A fair-to-middlin' spoof of Walk the Line-style country-music biopics, Walk Hard has a wayward way with gags; John C. Reilly is goofy fun, though, and the songs are hilarious.

Two Americans and a German share the prize for work that used light to make some of the most precise measurements ever performed. Engineers have used the observations of Roy Glauber, John Hall and Theodor Haensch to improve lasers, Global Positioning System technology and other instruments.

In a story that has enthralled many Italians, the pretender to the Italian throne, Victor Emmanuel, has been jailed over his alleged involvement in a sex scandal. The prince prefers to stay in jail rather than be granted house arrest in a nearby rented villa -- because, he says, there is no air conditioning. The lead investigator in the case, Henry John Woodcock, has become a minor celebrity. He is a Neapolitan with an English father. Transcribed wiretaps that have been published by the media reveal an underworld of right-wing politicians promising showgirls jobs in TV in exchange for sex -- which is said to take place inside the foreign ministry.

Hot Club of Cowtown's five albums revive Western swing, a musical style made famous more than half a century ago by groups such as Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Group members stop by NPR's Studio 4B for a performance chat with NPR's John Ydstie.