This week: We play music by Somali-born hip-hop artist K'naan, And answer a listener question about the nation's capital,Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

By the age of nine, he had taught himself to play the harmonica and had built a radio.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

This week on our program, we play music by a new country band called Love and Theft.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play a work written by composer John Williams for the event.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

After listening for a while, Esperanza was able to play the music by ear.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

And we play music from a new album by jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

I'm Doug Johnson. Today,we play music from a new album by Animal Collective .

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Today,we play music from a new album by Rosanne Cash .

VOA: special.2009.12.04

And we play music by a young jazz musician Esperanza Spalding.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

I'm Doug Johnson. Today on our program, we visit an art exhibit by film director Tim Burton, play music by Vampire Weekend, and answer a question about religion in America.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

But she said that if Hamas wants to play a part in peace talks, it needs to meet international terms by renouncing violence and accepting Israel's right to exist.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

One early submission is a dice game made of scrap material by an inmate who also included detailed, handwritten instructions on how to play the game he invented in his cell.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"That helps the sport grow. If we just stayed all our separate little ways, the sport would never get momentum, so it's basically a national movement where we have one governing body kind of governing all the rules so we all play by the same rules."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05