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- Robert Smith of member station K-U-O-W in Seattle reports on a unique neighborhood program where neighbors barter with each other, goods and services. Someone who does handy work can exchange his skills for drum lessons from a neighbor who plays in a band.

Mark Jenkins reviews Cibo Matto (SEE-BOW MAH-toe) a group of Japanese woman .. that live in New york and have an Italian name. The band loves to sing about food. The cd is called Viva La Woman, by Cibbo Matto Label: Warner Bros. (4:00) (IN S

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the film "Trainspotting," which opens in the United States today. The film is based on a novel about a young band of heroin addicts in Scotland. "Trainspotting" has stirred controversy because it concentrates on heroin's seductive quality. But Mondello says the film's inside view of drug use provides a sobering dose of realism.

As the FDA adds more restrictions on cigarette sales and advertising, tobacco companies are coming up with unique ways to attract new smokers. Cigarette companies are coming to nightclubs with offers to sponsor bands and help them pay for advertising. In exchange, they get exclusive rights to market their cigarettes inside the clubs, even using club employees to push their products.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports that the FCC is auctioning off part of the airwave spectrum. The band that's up for grabs is intended for wireless communication providers, and should mean stronger and clearer connections for cell phone users. It will also give the industry room to develop the next generation of wireless services.

Jazz vocalist Anita O'Day. She joined Gene Krupa's band in 1941. She later sang with Stan Kenton. She is still performing today (Original broadcast: 12/3/87).

Host Liane Hansen reads from listeners' comments about the CD Wish List feature from earlier this month. Included are selections from Remi Gassmann's Music to the Ballet "Electronics", Del Close's How To Speak Hip, and Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band's self-titled debut.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Herb Smith, director of a new documentary film on bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley. Stanley's high tenor harmonies and banjo-playing helped pioneer the genre, and even at the age of 75, he still tours regularly with his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys.

Bangalore fusion-rock band Thermal and a Quarter incorporates the varied musical backgrounds of four very distinct members. Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers has a profile of the group and its place in India's vast musical scene.

Plant formally fronted the band Led Zeppelin. His new solo CD includes tracks he recorded before Zeppelin and after. It's called Sixty Six to Timbuktu. (The interview continues through the end of the show.)