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Comedian Will Durst sees the futility of getting real news out of a convention, but he loves the scene surrounding the whole event anyway.

Robert Siegel talks with Howard Rosenberg, TV critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Robert Thompson, Associate Professor of Television at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. They discuss the broadcast from the Democratic Convention, last night's address by Hillary Clinton, and how it compares with the address by Elizabeth Dole during the broadcast of the Republican Convention.

a forum for Catholics to discuss their differences with Rome within the Church. Since it's creation, the project has been criticized by both conservative and liberal Catholics.

Music reviewer Charles de Ledesma takes a look at the latest book from David Toop, one of the most erspected music journalists in Britain. Ocean of Sound and its accompanying CD trace the expansion of music around the globe in the twentieth century, and focus on how new technology and the concept of the "global village" have changed the things we listen to...from the ways in which we can listen to music to the ways we make music in the digital era. (8:00) (S

NPR is participating in a program along with other televesion and radio news outlets that provides free airtime to the Presidential campaigns of Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Tonight's message comes from Presidential challenger Bob Dole.

A sound installation by Polish-born artist Miroslaw Rogala in Chicago's Washington Square Park that takes viewers/participants back to the days when the park was called Bughouse Square...for the constant cacophony from soapbox preachers and politicians. The installation is interactive...visitors trigger light sensors that, in turn, trigger different speeches from different eras, and the mix of chatter depends on how the visitor moves through the installation. It's all about the importance of free speech. Rick Karr reports from Chicago.

Commentator Lawrence Kushner tells the story of how an occasional business connection turned into a relationship involving spiritual guidance.

The president is riding "The Twenty-First Century Express," a train taking him through the mid-west on his way to the Democratic National convention in Chicago. Mr. Clinton's whistle-stops along the way allow time for him to spell out some of the issues he would make priorities in a second term, among them, literacy, the environment, and gun control.

-Danny talks to Neil Silberman, author of "Between Past and Presest," about the politics of archaeology. Silberman says the recent clashes in Jerusalem over a deicison to open a tunnel alongside the biblical Temple Mount are only the latert manifestation of the use of archeology as a weapon in the war for national identity and sovereignty He provides similar examples from Greece, Bosnia and. . . lower Manhatrtan.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service says it deported a record 67-thousand illegal aliens in the fiscal year that ended last month. But, critics say in another area the INS has been sloppy, allowing tens of thousands of aliens to become naturalized citizens despite their criminal records. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.