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Actress and drama coach Uta Hagen joins Liane Hansen to discuss er latest stage role in the Broadway production, "Mrs. Klein." The story is ased on the real life experiences of Melanie Klein, a world-renowned sychologist who analyzed her own children in the 1930's. Ms. Hagen describes ow she prepared for the role of Mrs. Klein, and how she brought these insights o the stage.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that Colombia's neighbors fear that a big anti-drug, anti-surgency campaign by the Colombian government will push the drug problem across Columbia's borders. Peru, which has been very successful in eradicating coca production, already is seeing evidence of a drug resurgence. Lima has requested more US aid to combat the problem.

NPR's Chris Joyce reports from Western China, where the Chinese hope to build a wide network of parks and reserves. This area, however, in the high mountains on the edge of the Chinese empire, is also the ancient Tibetan homeland. The first of two parts in an installment of Radio Expeditions, a co-production of NPR and the National Geographic Society.

Several poultry producers from the state of Georgia are traveling to Cuba this week, hoping to establish new markets for their products. Susanna Capelouto of Peach State Public Radio reports that the trade mission is the first of its kind since the U.S. began it's embargo of Cuba nearly forty years ago. But while chicken is in high demand on the island nation, money is scarce. (

An outbreak of citrus canker is making the Florida citrus industry's recovery even more difficult after the punches landed by this season's hurricanes. There is no known cure for the disease that debilitates citrus trees. The only way to fight it is to destroy infected groves, which ends fruit production for seven years.

Oil wealth has long generated dreams of prosperity, but in the lands of production, the reserves have often brought political and economic instability. In the final part of a Morning Edition series, Sandy Tolan and collaborating reporters look at the jungles of Peru, where residents doubt a gas pipeline project's promise to be environmentally responsible.

The U.S. imports more oil from Latin America than from all Middle Eastern countries combined. Oil wealth has long generated dreams of prosperity, but in the lands of production, the reserves have often brought political and economic instability. In the first of a three-part series, Sandy Tolan looks at what went wrong with Venezuela's oil dream.

Oil wealth has long generated dreams of prosperity, but in the lands of production, the reserves have often brought political and economic instability. In the second of a three-part series for Morning Edition, Sandy Tolan and collaborating reporters look at Ecuador, where citizens wonder what happened to oil's long-promised benefits.

Nearly a century ago, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out a way to tap into the atmosphere's vast reservoir of nitrogen. That innovation led to nitrogen fertilizer, which transformed world food production. But the discovery has also created one of the world's greatest pollutants. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has defied a U.N. Security Council call for a freeze on enriching uranium. President Bush greeted the news by saying "the world is united and concerned" about Iran's nuclear activities. The White House says it believes Iran is pursuing the production of nuclear weapons.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the rise in the U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the last quarter, and also the big oil deal between Conoco-Phillips and the Russian oil company Lukoil.

The Beatles' original producer George Martin worked on a Fab Four soundtrack to a Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas show, which remixed and combined various Beatle songs. Now, Martin and his son Giles have released a modified soundtrack of that production, an album called Love.

A product of Portland, Ore.'s thriving open-mic scene, Justin Ringle leads Horse Feathers, a folk-pop band that exudes quiet intensity. The strings and accordions on the band's third album, Thistled Spring, are a bit lusher, while Ringle's stories are just as poignant.

The recent recall of salmonella-tainted peanut butter products is just the latest of a string of regulatory failures by the ailing Food and Drug Administration. Former FDA official William Hubbard discusses major problems facing the FDA and proposals for how to fix them.

Economist Nigel Gault explains that the drop in the gross domestic product announced last week — the biggest in 25 years — was lower than the drop in sales. This means that companies are making more things than they can sell, portending more bad economic news down the road.

After a promising start, negotiators struggled to find a way around those pushing to end oil and gas production.

The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with a series of duties on U.S. products, responding to the Trump administration rise in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.

As numbers of vaping-related lung disease rise, a mom testifying before Congress compared the illness to a food poisoning outbreak and called on lawmakers to address the epidemic of teen vaping.

NPR's Ari Shapiro interviews Jason Bordoff, professor and founding director at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. He was also the former White House energy advisor to President Obama. Bordoff talks about the part of the budget deal this week which lifts the ban on oil exports, and what it means for consumers, industry, the economy and the environment.

Audie Cornish talks to Alberta Premier Alison Redford about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposed from the oil sands of her Canadian province through the United States.