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Join David Nicholas for The Beat every Saturday from 1-4 -- this week, new CDs from vocalist Ben Black, pianist David Friesen, drummer Phil Parisot and The Jim Knapp Orchestra. Plus vintage live dates from the Village Vanguard with Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans , and from this week in 1961 -- John Coltrane.

Homespun this week brings us the latest from Danny Burns, The Grascals (with Dolly Parton!) and Red Camel Collective. We’ll explore the Celtic sounds of Delores Keane with John Faulkner, The Green Fields of America, and Liz Carroll with John Doyle. Plus, Guy Clark’s classic “Homegrown Tomatoes!"

Surprise, anger, parenting and Lizzo: That's one way to sum up the list of the most engaging stories in 2019. Other big topics included consumerism and climate change — and officials behaving badly.

…This week on Homespun, we’ll hear from the likes of Larry Sparks, Bill Keith, plus new music from the Punch Brothers and Full Cord Bluegrass! We’ll also have a song from Alice Gerrard and Mike Seeger, and we’ll celebrate the lives of singers Tony Barrand and Bill Staines, whom we recently lost. Tune in Sundays at 3 PM!

…This week’s Homespun celebrates Mardi Gras with Waltzes and Two-Steps from Dennis McGee, Steve Riley, The Bonetones, and The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band! We’ll also dip into the music library for the sounds of Hot Rize and The Gibson Bros., plus we raise our glasses to the 30th Anniversary of albums by Lyle Lovett and Joni Mitchell! Tune in Sunday at 3PM!

Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where prisoners were executed. Across Europe, officials were pausing to remember.

Roger Cook and Jenn Nawada show you everything about installing water features.

Bob Clark plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on a controversial piece of art in Boston Harbor- a liquid natural gas tank adorned with large rainbow stripes. Many people claim that a face is visible in one of the stripes, and there have been "sightings" of everyone from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden since the painting was completed in the early 1970's.

Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It's called wage theft. But in California, the worst offender has paid only a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars in wages he owes workers.