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Our year-long series visits a man obsessed with the sound of TV. Phil Gries started recording audio from his television set in the 1950s. He still has over 10-thousand items, and has turned his hobby into a business -- supplying audio from old TV shows to other collectors and museums. He says he was motivated by the ethereal nature of live TV to preserve broadcasts of all sorts.

Those who got their Easter baskets last week may find only one thing left in the plastic grass: Peeps. They're the tiny marshmallow confections shaped like chicks and bunnies, dyed bright pink, yellow and blue. For artist David Ottogalli, they're the building blocks of art. Don visits a gallery where Ottogalli has installed Peepsshow -- an exhibit of flags, magnets and a chicken coop made from Peeps.

As part of a series of interviews with the Presidential candidates, Host Bob Edwards talks to Green Party nominee Ralph Nader. Nader is highly critical of both Al Gore and George W. Bush and says he hopes to win at least five percent of the vote so the Green Party can qualify for federal matching funds in the next election.

In part one of a two-part interview, Host Bob Edwards talks with singer, songwriter John Prine about his latest CD In Spite Of Ourselves. Prine has been recording since 1971 and has won a Grammy and the respect of his peers, many of whom have recorded his tunes. Prine was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997. John Prine's latest CD, In Spite Of Ourselves, is available on Oh Boy Records; ASIN: B00000K3LI.

All Things Considered continues its annual Thanksgiving tradition of inviting Bailey White to share a story with us. This story, which takes place nearly 100 years ago, is about a middle aged schoolteacher and the Jersey bull she won in a raffle.

NPR's Alex Chadwick profiles photographer Luis Marden for The Geographic Century series, a co-production of NPR and The National Geographic Society. Marden was a pioneering photographer for much of the 20th century. Among other things, he discovered the wreck of the Bounty.

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education began surveying college and university undergraduates this week about how they perceive free speech at their schools.

Lisa visits with Ray Materson, one of the artists featured in the exhibition Treasures of the Soul: Who is Rich? at Baltimore's Visionary Art Museum. The show focuses on art made from things that have little value in themselves -- telephone wires, sock threads, or plastic beads. Materson crafts intricate tiny pictures from sock threads. Check out Materson's Web site at: www.avam.org

In this latest installment of our Lost and Found Sound series, NPR's Don Gonyea remembers the heyday of powerhouse AM radio. Gonyea grew up in Detroit, where the big station in the 60's and 70's was CKLW. It broadcast from across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario. It was a loud, glitzy noise-making enterprise. Everything was shouted -- even the news. The 50,000-watt giant spewed rock and roll and hyped-news across 28 states and mid-Canada. Gonyea describes the formula that made CKLW and its imitators successful.

The conclusion of Linda Wertheimer's conversation with singer Andy Bey.