After 23 years with the British Security Service Dame Stella Rimington was named first female director of Britain's MI5 in 1992. Now retired, Rimington pulls from her experiences to write…spy novels. She talks with Bob about her latest book titled Illegal Action. Bruce Hornsby has sold more than 11 million records, drawing from a wide-range of American musical traditions. He was schooled in bluegrass, folk, rock, pop, country, blues and jazz, although the "adult-contemporary" label has plagued him ever since his hit, “The Way It Is,” became the most-played song on American radio in 1987. This year, Hornsby created the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Program at his Alma Mater, the University of Miami. Last year he released a bluegrass CD with Ricky Skaggs and an album with his jazz trio.

Bob talks with sports columnist King Kaufman about the baseball season and previews the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Bob talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for the Washington Post and best-selling author David Maraniss about his latest book Rome 1960. Cassius Clay, Rafer Johnson and Wilma Rudolph were some of the most prominent American athletes competing then – and their performances helped change perceptions of racial and gender equality in the US. To tell this story, Maraniss combined his three favorite subjects -- history, politics and sports.

The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage industry has cost many people their homes, worsened the credit crisis and shaken up Wall Street financial firms. In their new book, Chain of Blame, authors Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla detail the growth of sub-prime lenders and how mortgages turned into a Wall Street bubble. Bob talks with writer Edward Dolnick about his new book The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century. It tells the story of a mediocre Dutch artist who convinced the world that his paintings were the lost and invaluable work of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.

'Whatever happened to my flying car?' and other questions about promised technologies are answered by Nick Sagan in the book, 'You Call This the Future?' Nick is the son of the late astronomer Carl Sagan. Linda Salzman Sagan was the wife of Carl Sagan. She was also the co-producer of the phonographic time capsule that was launched aboard the Voyager Spacecraft in 1977. The capsule, and its gold-plated record, have left the solar system and are drifting through space, waiting to be found by intelligent life. Salzman Sagan talks about the sounds and images she helped select to represent all of humanity.

Bob talks with author Richard Bausch about his 11th novel titled, Peace. It tells the story of a company of American soldiers scrabbling up an Italian mountainside in the closing days of World War II. The Germans are retreating and Bausch's crew has been sent on a thankless mission: to confirm the retreat without being killed. Curator and archaeologist Dr. Fredrik Hiebert walks Bob through the National Gallery of Art's latest exhibit Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. This remarkable collection survived wars and looting only through the courage and ingenuity of Kabul's National Museum director and curators.