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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.

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

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell reviews the movie Memento.

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

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.

Scott talks with two of the thirteen people who took a Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in 1961. At the time he joined the ride, B. Elton Cox was minister living in High Point, North Carolina. Edward Blankenheim was a student at the University of Arizona.

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

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