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Susan pulls some pieces she's proud of from the NPR audio archives: She knits her way though history, takes us one a personal tour of DC, and tries to interest her colleagues in resurrecting her Relish recipe. She talks with economist Milton Friedman, actor Judi Dench, writer Nora Ephron, and pianist Leon Fleisher. In pursuit of patriotism, Ms. Stamberg de-France-ifies some popular culture, then ends in a Parisian park, chatting with a world-class conversationalist.

You don't want to think about prostate problems. What man over 50 would? Jeff Metcalf certainly didn't; until the diagnoses in 2004: prostate cancer. That's when Metcalf, an English professor at the University of Utah, began keeping a journal. His diaries open as a play this fall. Our radio version was produced by Larry Massett and performed by Paul Kiernan.

Poland battles against the Germans and then the Russians at the start of the Second World War. A German foot soldier and Polish townspeople recall, differently, the first days of the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and Poland's later battle to fight years of environmental poisoning during the Soviet era. All in a series of stories written by NPR's Alex Chadwick and produced by host Art Silverman.

Three hearts searching for home: Going back to Vietnam makes Nguyen Qui Duc realize "Home is Always Somewhere Else; host Neenah Ellis goes looking for her family in Croatia, where "The Old Country is Gone." And Andrei Codrescu’s returns to his Romanian home town and stares into the "Eyes of Sibiu."

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Host Ceil Muller of KQED presents "The Kiss and the Dying," her etiquette list for the dying and soon-to-be survivors. "Fire and Ice Cream" is from Brent Runyan's book "The Burn Journals." Brian Brophy documents the death of "Our Father." Carmen Delzell helps heal her "Grandmother"s Hip." And patients pass time with TV in Nancy Updike's "Channeling Health."

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Susan Stamberg enlists elementary school kids to evaluate the paintings of "Picasso." Poet Gertrude Stein paints "A Completed Portrait of Picasso." Singer Jonathan Richman believes "No One Was Like Vermeer" but "Pablo Picasso" was never called an @#%hole. And a history of injuries and inspiration unfolds in "Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida," an audio biography produced by Katie Davis.

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