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Fresh Air''s television critic, David Bianculli, reviews the final works of British TV producer Dennis Potter.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition gardening consultant Ketzel Levine about roses and this weekend's rose festival in her new hometown, Portland, Oregon.

Commentator Jack Beatty says that even with giving up his Senate seat, Bob Dole is in trouble because his party is in trouble. That's because Beatty thinks the GOP economic plan has been a disaster.

Reporter Amy Bernstein visits the headquarters of a magazine for pre-teen girls called "Girls' Life." The relatively new magazine is the first full-fledged glossy of its kind and has become something of a phenomenon in the publishing world. With over one hundred thousand current subscribers and two to three thousand more pouring in every month, the magazine seems to have found a niche...although advertisers still need to be convinced of its appeal and the buying power of its primary demographic group.

Commentator Michael Hood takes his childrem on an annual tour of his childhood farmland. Every year he punches up his stories...and every year, the kids get a little more bored. Tales of runaway tractors and five-legged calves have a limited appeal to kids intent on living their own lives.

In the second of two reports on Mexican immigrants, NPR's David Welna visits New Rochelle, a wealthy suburb of New York City which has became a favorite destination of young men from the poor town of Cotija (coh-TEE-ha) in central Mexico. A few thousand Mexicans--legal and illegal--live in New Rochelle. They're part of an eastward drift among growing numbers of Mexican immigrants attracted by good wages and little fear of immigration raids. Swamped by the massive illegal population in the southwest, the immigration service doesn't have the resources to focus on places like New Rochelle.

A Congressional hearing was held today into the ValuJet Airlines crash in the Everglades in May, and the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of airline safety. Among those testifying were FAA Chief David Hinson, Transportation Department Inspector General Mary Schiavo, and ValuJet President Lewis Jordan. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on the so-called empowerment zones that were unveiled...in this incarnation...by the Clinton Administration with big fanfare two years ago. They were touted as a way to use tax credits and social service block grants to revitalize blighted urban areas. Now, some are pointing to Philadelphia, which was one of six sites which qualified for "empowerment zone" money, as an example of how the program has succeeded. But critics say the concept may not be working.

In northeastern Mississippi where two black churches were burned last week near the town of Kossuth, both black and white residents have rallied to support the black congregations. Race relations have been generally smooth in Alcorn County, but local leaders fear the fires may have been set to create conflict between the races. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports.

a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St Louis, about the security at the U.S. military base where the attack occurred.