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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.

Lisa talks with two police officers, a father and son, from California, who are using their musical talents to teach kids about safe driving. One of them is a polished Elvis impersonator. The other, a hard-rock rapper. They perform live throughout the state and have released several CDs. We'll hear excerpts from some of their songs. (7:46) *** The CDs are not available commercially (they are only given out at school performances), but listeners can get more information on the program online. http://www.ubco.org/

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis has performed pop music with Sting, hip-hop with Buckshot LeFonque, and jazz with a host of giants like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Art Blakey. His new CD offers another challenge. Marsalis teams with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on Creation - a collection of the works of various French composers. Liane speaks with Marsalis about his newfound confidence with classical performance and some of the lessons he learned along the way. (17:49) Creation is on Sony Classical

The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, produce a profile of Laila Ali, daughter of famed boxer Muhammad Ali. Tonight she enters the ring with Jacqui Frazier, daughter of another renowned boxer, Joe Frazier. Both women compete professionally, but their match is a lot more than professional - it renews their fathers' historic rivalry.

Host Jacki Lyden visits four families in Israel and the West Bank who have lost children in the bloody conflict in that region. Since the most recent violence began on September 28, almost two hundred children under eighteen have died, 164 Palestinians and thirty-seven Israelis.