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Scott talks to historian Richard Minear about some newly discovered political cartoons of Dr. Seuss from the early 1940's. Minear's book is called Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War Two Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel.

Weekend Edition Sunday presents the annual airing of John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story. The tale of a hitchhiking boy with an orange was originally broadcast in 1974 on the NPR program Voices in the Wind, and since 1994 it's been a tradition to broadcast it on our program.

O. Winston Link, whose thousands of photographs of American railroads and rural culture documented an era, has died at the age of 86. Noah talks to Katherine Dodson, a church organist in Rural Retreat, Va., who was once photographed by Link, playing her organ as the Birmingham Special blew its whistle.

NPR's Renee Montagne travels to Owensboro, Kentucky, to report on America's last public execution. In August of 1936, 20,000 people watched Rainey Bethea die by court order on the gallows.

Liane Hansen speaks with pianist Rachel Z, who performs the music of Wayne Shorter with her trio in NPR's Studio 4A. Her new cd, On the Milky Way Express is on Tone Center Records. (17:00)Find out more at Rachel Z's website: www.rachelz.com

Many music fans perceive electronica as cold and impersonal. Washington, DC's Thievery Corporation is out to change all that. Producers Eric Hilton and Rob Garza borrow from such disparate styles as jazz, reggae, exotica and bossa nova; and merge them with dance-club beats. Liane joins the men behind Thievery Corporation at the swanky Eighteenth Street Lounge. (16:30) {NOTE: The new Thievery Corporation CD is titled The Mirror Conspiracy ESL Music catalog # 33}

NPR's Richard Harris reports from Antarctica, where a team of biologists studies the few life forms tenacious enough to exist in such a harsh climate.

NPR's Joe Palca sent us an audio postcard from Carnaval in Bolivia.

Scott talks with playwright Alan Bennett about his first novel, The Clothes they Stood Up In, which is about how a burglary changes the life of a proper British couple. (12:00).

NPR's Steve Drummond reports from the Mississippi Delta on "Teach for America." For more than a decade the program has been sending recent college graduates into poverty-stricken areas to teach for two years.