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Next year, 2,500 contemporary artworks owned by multimillionaire Friedrich Christian Flick will go on display in Berlin. The collection was rejected as "Nazi blood art" in Flick's native Switzerland.

Authors promoting their books often travel from city to city stopping for interviews at as many broadcast outlets as possible. For chefs with new cookbooks this means more than being able to talk about their work, it means being able to demonstrate it on camera. Media guru Lisa Ekus runs a T.V. kitchen training ground for chefs ready for the big time.

Liane provides an overview of the past week's news, weather and sports in South Dakota.

Legendary jazz singer Abbey Lincoln has been hailed by one critic as the "Last Great Diva", and says herself that she sings in the tradition of Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.

Liane speaks with film legend Clint Eastwood, one of this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. Eastwood talks about his multi-faceted career as an actor, director and producer; his love of music; the challenges of aging in Hollywood; the influence of Dirty Harry director Don Siegel; and some of the roles that have defined the public's perception of him.

We feature a performance by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris. He charms us with the complete "Santaland Diaries." This piece first ran on NPR's Morning Edition a few days before Christmas 1992. Even though Sedaris has achieved national fame and movie contracts for his humor writing, he still cleans apartments during the day, because, he says, he can only write at night.

Smokey Robinson wrote "My Girl," recorded in 1964 by The Temptations, for Temptation David Ruffin to sing, knowing he'd be launching a new star.

NPR's Noah Adams travels to Chantilly, Va., for a conversation with Tom DeBaggio, his wife Joyce and son Francesco. Tom DeBaggio was diagnosed in the spring of 1999 with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This is the fourth in a series of interviews with the DeBaggio family. In today's conversation, Tom describes his loss of familiarity with most of the material in his new book about the growing and the use of herbs, his willingness to give up driving when the time comes, and his acceptance of the need for an identification bracelet. He also tells of a harrowing experience one night when he accidentally took an overdose medication used in his Alzheimer's treatment. Book referenced is The Big Book of Herbs: a Comprehensive Illustrated Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance, by Arthur Tucker and Thomas DeBaggio Interweave Press, Loveland, Colo. ISBN 1-883010-86-1.

As part of our year-long collaboration with independent producers, Lost and Found Sound today turns to veteran broadcaster Robert Trout for a look back at CBS Studio Nine. The New York newsroom was the source of much of the century's news for millions of Americans. During the studio's operation from 1938 to 1964, Trout was one of the men who spent the most time there. He recently discovered some of his tapes.

NPR's Liane Hansen is joined by two members of President Clinton''s seven member advisory board on race, attorney Angela Oh and former Mississippi Gov. William Winter. This past week, members of the board ventured outside Washington to Phoenix, Arizona, where they heard from residents in an open forum.