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Scott speaks with David Prown of Red Bank, New Jersey, about what happened when Bruce Springsteen showed up unexpectedly at a local record store selling his new album.

Scott and NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discuss the news of the week.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on the controversy surrounding the continuing investigation into the finances of Jesse Jackson and his organization, the Citizen Education Fund.

Scott talks to Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about the career of violinist Jascha Heifetz. Naxos Records is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a series of Heifetz's orchestral recordings from the 1930's and 40's. Heifetz died in 1987, but is still considered the greatest violinist of the 20th century.

Scott with some thoughts about tv's The West Wing.

Scott Simon talks with Laura Hillenbrand author of a new book about the race horse Sea Biscuit. (16:40) (Seabiscuit: An American Legend Random

Seven Americans were among those killed in a helicopter crash today in Vietnam. The aircraft was carrying a team searching for Americans missing in action during the Vietnam war. Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, of the Joint Task Force Full Accounting, speaks with host Lisa Simeone.

Janet Heimlich visits two small, rural Texas towns that are struggling to remain viable as their industries, and populations, diminish.

It's the first Saturday of the month and novelist Paul Auster brings you the National Story Project. For more information on the National Story Project and to read this month's stories please visit the National Story Project area on NPR's web site.

Lisa speaks with former State Department Ambassador-at-Large Robert Gallucci about how negotiators use language to manoeuvre through tense conflicts. Galluci is now Dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome about a campaign to ban political satire on public TV. Silvio Berlusconi who owns three tv networks and is running for office, has frequently been the source of hard hitting satire and has asked that such political barbs be banned.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli government and many ordinary Israelis are holding Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Eight years ago, following signature of the Oslo accords, the Palestinian leader was hailed in Israel as a partner for peace, but few Israelis apparently still hold that view.