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

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

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.

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.

In honor of their upcoming centennial, the town of Macclesfield, NC has passed a temporary town ordinance requiring all men to grow beards. Scott talks with Ed Drew, chairman of the Beard Growing Commission.

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

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.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that American diplomats in China met for a third time today with the detained U.S. air crew, characterizing them as in "very high spirits." But it's not clear how much longer the crew and their downed airplane will be held, as China holds out for an official apology from the U.S. government.

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.