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TV Critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the fourth segment of MTV''s "The Real World " documentary series, which airs tonight

HOST ALEX CHADWICK AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI IN BELGRADE ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR A BOSNIAN PEACE, NOW THAT THREE SIDES IN THE WAR HAVE AGREED TO TALKS.

FOLKLIFE: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLIFE DOWN ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND THIS YEAR THE FESTIVAL, WHICH RUNS THROUGH JULY 4TH, IS FEATURING MUSIC FROM NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN CHORAL ENSEMBLES, PLUS CAPE VERDEAN MUSIC AND MUSICIANS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

FIREWORKS: Essayist Lester Sloan visits a fireworks maker in the alifornia mountains, and learns about the "art of the bang."

Host Liane Hansen speaks with career journalist Bill Moyers bout the new 8-part PBS series, "The Language of Life with Bill Moyers." The rogram is currently being broadcast by PBS on Friday nights through July 28th. t is a celebration of the rise of interest in public poetry throughout the nited States, focusing on the eighteen poets who took part in the Geraldine R. odge Poetry Festival in New Jersey. (Also available is the companion book, A ESTIVAL OF POETS, published by Doubleday.)

2: Animator CHUCK JONES. Jones made many of the greatest Warner Brothers cartoons, and he created the characters Pepe LePew, Wile E. Coyote, and the RoadRunner. He wrote a memoir of his years at Warner Brothers, called Chuck Amuck (Avon Books). (REBROADCAST FROM 10/18/89).

Jacki discusses the latest events in Bosnia with NPR's Andy Bowers in Sarajevo and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade. Today, the top UN general in the former Yugoslavia met with the Bosnian Serb military leader. They tried, but failed, to work out an arrangement for the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from Sarajevo. Meanwhile, NATO officials met in Brussels to consider whether to resume military attacks against the Serbs.

Jacki talks to Richard Slotkin, author of the book "Gunfighter Nation, the Myth of the Frontier in 20th Century America," (HarperPerennial) about the prevalence of violence in American culture since the first settlers landed here.

Deidre Berger reports on the past week's events in the North Sea, where Shell Oil changed it's plans to dump an oil rig in the ocean, after protests from Greenpeace.

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION MADNESS CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE IN THE SUBURBS OF MOSCOW.

SPORTS: HOST ALEX CHADWICK DISCUSSES WITH WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT THE LOCK-OUT OF NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYERS, THAT WENT INTO EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING. 4:00 2. CHADWICK/HOCKENBERRY: HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH ABC AND FORMER NPR CORRESPONDENT JOHN HOCKENBERRY ABOUT HIS MEMOIR "MOVING VIOLATIONS: WAR ZONES, WHEELCHAIRS & DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE" PUBLISHED BY HYPERION PRESS/LITTLE, BROWN.