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This week's program looks at 15 songs from musicals by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart but in performances by "pop" singers from the 30's through 90's.

This program features songs from some of the musicals that opened on Broadway in the month of June and includes several songs from various incarnations of the famous Ziegfeld Follies.

Since it's the Fiscal Year End, we're looking to stage and screen songs about "money."

Kenji Lopez-Alt left a restaurant job to test and write about the mysteries of food science. His new book details findings from how best to sear a steak to how to get more golden pancakes.

Roger Smith's South African thriller is horrific to read, yet impossible to put down, says reviewer Martha Woodroof. Smith is also a screenwriter, and it shows in his pacing and construction; his short, fast-moving scenes tumble one on top of another in this haunting narrative of violence and survival.

Emily Feng is NPR's Beijing correspondent.

The best new and rediscovered jazz recordings that lit up the dark and unsettling year that just ended, as voted on by 148 jazz critics.

This week's Sunday Opera features another forgotten work: Rossini's "Bianca e Falliero"

This is one of the five opera buffa written by Rossini for the Teatro San Moise in Venice in a production from the Opera Festival of Chicago.

This program looks at two heroines of the "Old West," Annie Oakley through Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" and Calamity Jane through the musical by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster from a variety of recordings.